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“Traces of my tears will remain on this paper ...”: Letters from Elizabeth Stephens to M. M. Speransky
Get PDFThe author of the article assumes that the interstate relations between Russia and Great Britain in the late 18th — early 19th centuries largely determined the area of private contacts between Russians and the British. English-Russian marriages have a special place in the history of English-Russian relations. Attention is paid to one of such unions — the marriage of the outstanding statesman M. M. Speransky with an Englishwoman Elizabeth Stephens. It is claimed that a significant role in Speransky’s fate was played by A. A. Samborsky, also married to an Englishwoman, in whose house Speransky’s fateful meeting with his future wife took place. It is reported that the Speransky Fund of the Russian national library preserved letters of Elizabeth Stephens to Speransky, previously not widely attracted by researchers, but not all of these letters actually belong to Elizabeth, some of them belong to her sister — Marianne. This study provides the first translation of these letters for the analysis of Speransky’s private life. The author concludes that the preserved correspondence meets the standards and methods of expression of feelings in the era of “sentimentalism.” The problem of how much Speransky was immersed in the cultural context of British reality due to this marriage is also considered. Despite the fact that the marriage was quite short, Speransky’s relations with the Stephens family were quite strong
Alexander I and the Resignation of M. M. Speransky
Get PDFThe article was submitted on 09.02.2022.This article analyses the historiographical traditions of studying the resignation of M. M. Speransky from the position of Secretary of State in March 1812. Also, the author considers the contradictions in various interpretations regarding the role Emperor Alexander I played in the events and demonstrates the connection of these contradictions with the way in which scholars relied on historical sources to substantiate their concepts. As a result, the article shows that many of the contradictions and ‘mysteries’ of the story followed an uncritical use of later sources that carry significant distortions. Additionally, the author demonstrates that some of the distortions were made deliberately, e. g. in the middle of the nineteenth century, J. de Saint-Glin, an active participant in the events, really wanted to influence the formation of versions behind Speransky’s resignation in historiography and in many ways succeeded in it. Firstly, a new analysis of he sources shows how accusations against Speransky accumulated in the hands of Alexander I, including the most serious of them – treason; and, secondly, what role the Ministry of Police and personally Saint-Glin could play in this. The article emphasises that Alexander I’s decision cannot be considered without regarding his emotional state on the eve of a new clash with Napoleon, which was decisive for the country and his personal fate. Letters from the emperor’s inner circle, namely, Professor G. F. Parrot, his friend, prove that. In this state, he could take accusations of treason seriously, and then he maintained a close interest in the investigation to such an extent that he was even ready to “shoot traitors”. After the wars of 1812–1815, Alexander I’s attitude towards the Speransky case changed so much that he recognised his own wrong and demonstrated readiness to return him to St Petersburg gradually. This approach makes some interpretations of historiography redundant, which previously emphasised the ‘duplicity’ of the emperor, his “acting”, and his desire to abandon the course of liberal reforms.Анализируются историографические традиции изучения отставки М. М. Сперанского с поста государственного секретаря, состоявшейся в марте 1812 г., указаны существующие в различных интерпретациях противоречия относительно роли императора Александра I в этих событиях, показана связь этих противоречий с тем, каким именно образом историки опирались на исторические источники для обоснования своих концепций. В результате удалось показать, что многие противоречия и «тайны» этой истории явились результатом некритического использования источников, поздних по своему происхождению и несущих значительные искажения. Также продемонстрировано, что некоторые из искажений были допущены сознательно, а такой активный участник событий, как Я. И. де Санглен, в середине XIX в. очень хотел повлиять на формирование версий отставки
Сперанского в историографии и во многом преуспел в этом. Новый анализ источников показал, во‑первых, каким образом в руках Александра I аккумулировались обвинения против Сперанского, включая и самое серьезное из них – в государственной измене; во‑вторых, какую роль могли сыграть в этом министерство полиции и лично Санглен. Подчеркнуто, что решение Александра I нельзя рассматривать в отрыве от его эмоционального состояния накануне нового, решающего для страны и его личной судьбы столкновения с Наполеоном. Об этом свидетельствуют письма, происходившие из ближайшего окружения императора, в частности, от его личного друга профессора Г. Ф. Паррота. В таком состоянии он мог всерьез воспринять обвинения в измене, а затем поддерживал пристальный интерес к расследованию до такой степени, что даже был готов «расстрелять изменников». После же войн 1812–1815 гг. отношение Александра I к делу Сперанского поменялось вплоть до признания собственной неправоты и готовности постепенно вернуть того в Петербург. Такой подход, по мнению автора статьи, делает излишними некоторые трактовки историографии, в которых ранее делался акцент на «двуличии» императора, его «лицедействе», а также желании порвать с курсом на либеральные реформы.Статья подготовлена при финансовой поддержке РФФИ в рамках научного проекта № 20–09–00162 «Император Александр I и профессор Г. Ф. Паррот: дискуссии о путях реформирования России»
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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