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История, археология и этнография Кавказа. 2024. Т. 20. № 3. С. 772–782.
Druzhinina I., Iliushina M.
Based on the analysis of unique information from a new source for Russian Caucasian studies - the manuscript "Precious Necklaces in the Dignities of the State of Al-Ashraf Al-Ghauri" - the issues of the formation of the Kabardian polity and the socio-political relations among the Eastern Circassians of the 15th century are examined.
Чхаидзе В. Н., Druzhinina I., Античная древность и средние века 2023 Т. 51 С. 168–181
The work, based on a comprehensive analysis of the latest archaeological and paleoanthropological materials from excavations in the capital of Western Alania, a medieval state in the North Caucasus, raises the question of the ethnocultural composition of the city's elite, the level and quality of life of representatives of the urban elite, their religious, professional ...
Added: June 9, 2026
Druzhinina I., Iliushina M., Вестник архивиста 2025 № 1 С. 11–32
The publication introduces a new source on the history of Kabarda in the 15th century into the scientific field of Russian Caucasian studies: information from an anonymous Arabic manuscript, “Precious Necklaces in the Dignities of the State of Al-Ashraf Al-Ghauri,” 1515. ...
Added: June 9, 2026
Zelenev E., Iliushina M., Iran and the Caucasus 2025 Vol. 4-5 No. 29 P. 435–450
Sultan al-Ashraf Qanisawh al-Ghawri cannot be classified as an outstanding Mamluk ruler, but rather the opposite: his accession to power was a forced measure when all the more worthy claimants to the throne were unable to compete for power, so that the principle of negative selection came into play. The reign of al-Ashraf Qanisawh al-Ghawri ...
Added: February 16, 2026
Dmitriev T., Социологическое обозрение 2024 Т. 23 № 2 С. 231–259
Based on the analysis of Machiavelli’s political writings such as “Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius”, “The Prince” and “The History of Florence”, the article shows that attempts made repeatedly over the past few decades by such scholars as Tony Negri, John McCormick, Agnes Heller, Claude Lefort and Pierre Manent to declare Machiavelli ...
Added: October 8, 2024
Феофанов А. М., Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 2: История. История Русской Православной Церкви 2023 № 110 С. 59–71
The study is based on materials preserved in Fund 1355 (Economic Notes to the plans of the General Land Survey of the Russian Empire) of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA). These economic notes, compiled at the turn of the 18th - 19th centuries, indicate the rank of landowner, and the number of serfs owned ...
Added: January 31, 2024
Феофанов А. М., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 2. История 2022 Т. 67 № 2 С. 333–357
This article analyses the educational differentiation of the nobility during the reign of Elizabeth expressed in the status of their property (number of “souls”); the geographical location of their estates; the educational institutions where they were sent; and the age when they began education. It is based on a wide array of historical sources, among ...
Added: January 31, 2024
Stefanovich P., Slovĕne 2022 Т. 11 № 2 С. 28–52
The author of the article gives a detailed analysis of the entry of 1136 of the Novgorod First Chronicle. The chronicle describes how the Novgorodians assembled for a veche and made a crucial political decision—they banished the
prince Vsevolod, brother of the ruling Kievan prince, and invited the prince Svyatoslav, who belonged to the competing clan ...
Added: January 31, 2023
Adashinskaya A., , in: Изкуствоведски Четения. Тематичен рецензиран годишник за изкуствознание в два тома 2017. I – Старо изкуство. Византийско и поствизантийско изкуство: пресичане на граници. Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art: Crossing Borders. Art Readings. Thematic Peer-reviewed Annual in Art Studies, Volumes I-II 2017. I – Old Art.: Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2017. P. 303–324.
The article focuses on the change in dedicatory formulas of foundation inscriptions, which were commissioned by noblemen, members of the clergy, and monks during the second half of the 14th and the 15th century, in which the names of Byzantine, Serbian, or Bulgarian emperors were substituted with the names of local, non-Byzantine rulers. It considers ...
Added: November 15, 2021
Kulikov L., Этнография 2019 Т. 4 (6) С. 75–89
This paper explores the social stratification of Maldivian society, with particular focus on its history and traces of earlier alleged caste systems and slavery as well as their impact on Maldivian society, and the implications this fact had for their social structure. I will argue that some anthropologically remarkable traces of earlier social stratification, such as slavery and ...
Added: October 14, 2020
Fedyukin I., / Series HUM "Humanities". 2019. No. 185.
Education in early modern Russia has been traditionally described as imported from the West; secular; imposed by the state – or more specifically, by Peter I himself – from above on the unwilling population; driven by the military needs, and therefore, technical. This chapter seeks to examine and to problematize some these theses. Some of ...
Added: January 30, 2020
Fedyukin I., Paedagogica Historica 2022 Vol. 58 No. 4 P. 541–554
Educational reforms and introduction of compulsory schooling for nobility are rightly counted among the most import important changes introduced by Peter I in Russia. This article employs a large sample of records from the Heraldry, a government agency in charge of registering nobles for their mandatory service, to assess the spread of literacy among the ...
Added: January 27, 2020
Fedyukin I., , in: Education beyond Europe. Models and Traditions before Modernities.: Leiden: Brill, 2021. Ch. 12 P. 259–281.
Education in early modern Russia has been traditionally described as imported from the West; secular; imposed by the state – or more specifically, by Peter I himself – from above on the unwilling population; driven by the military needs, and therefore, technical. This chapter seeks to examine and to problematize some these theses. Some of ...
Added: January 25, 2020
Lavrinovich M., Slavonic and East European Review 2020 Vol. 98 No. 2 P. 235–265
The paper argues that the new emotional models elaborated within the sentimentalist culture of the late eighteenth century were appropriated not only by the aristocratic elite but also by some educated members of the Russian “middle class”. The author focuses on the biographical details of the archivist, bureaucrat, and translator Aleksei Fedorovich Malinovskii (1762–1840) who ...
Added: December 5, 2018
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2018.
С XVII до XIX века модели воспитания дворянина в Европе претерпели сильные изменения, выразившиеся в новых институциональных формах и систематизации новых практик: распространении домашнего воспитания и образовательных путешествий, известных как Гран Тур, переводе преподавания с латыни на национальные языки, введении новых дисциплин с целью дать дворянину профессиональные навыки... Важнейшим элементом и движущей силой этих изменений ...
Added: August 29, 2018
Fedyukin I., Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2018 Vol. 19 No. 2 P. 363–384
This article presents an attempt to reconsider the role of “Germans” in Russia in the 1730s by reconstructing the Pietist anthropological sensibilities of the key “German” ministers of Empress Anna Ioannovna. While these sensibilities did not necessarily translate into a coherently formulated policy program, it appears that they could be reflected in these ministers’ basic ...
Added: May 28, 2018
Fedyukin I., / Series HUM "Humanities". 2017. No. WP BRP 156/HUM/2017.
This paper is an attempt to reconstruct the social and cultural life of young aristocrats in mid-eighteenth century St Petersburg by focusing on one aristocratic circle, one that revolved around Prince Nikita Trubetskoi, the procurator-general. In particular it traces the ways on which sociable behavior and libertine practices intertwined with early traces of “Enlightenment,” affective ...
Added: November 2, 2017
Fedyukin I., , in: The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825. Public Role and Subjective Self.: DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. P. 26–45.
The emancipation of the nobility in 1762 was, arguably, the central event in the social and cultural history of the Russian imperial elite and, indeed, a watershed in the relationship between the elite and the state in Russia, marking official recognition by the monarchy of the nobles’ autonomous subjecthood. The road toward this recognition, it ...
Added: February 19, 2017
Zakharov A. V., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2016 Т. 35 № 4 С. 24–33
The paper analyzes the courtiers’ literacy according to the first mass data nobility inspection («smotr shlyahetstva») of 1721–1722. The author clarifies the concept of the «tsaredvortsy» (courtiers) in the context of different self-identification of Muskovite rank-holders, as well as in terms of the government’s perception of the group of rank-holders in military and garrison service. ...
Added: January 7, 2017
Fedyukin I., Journal of Social History 2016 Vol. 49 No. 3 P. 558–584
This article uses the case of post-Petrine Russia to explore the role of formal schooling in social mobility and social reproduction among the elite in early modern context. A study of career and educational choices made by Russian nobles in the 1730s-1740s and recorded in the registers of the Heraldry and petitions for enrollment into the ...
Added: February 16, 2015
Fedyukin I., / Series HUM "Humanities". 2015.
This essay focuses on debates about the proper rules and procedures of promotion in military service from Peter I’s reign and into the 1740s. It begins by considering the meaning of such peculiar Petrine innovation as selection of candidates for promotion through “elections” and the subsequent permutations of the promotion mechanism, and then moves on ...
Added: February 16, 2015
Fedyukin I., Gabdrakhmanov S., Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2016 Vol. 46 No. 4 P. 485–516
This study employs a unique database covering 2,293 cadets who graduated from the Noble Land Cadet Corps in St Petersburg from 1732 – 1762 to investigate the role of cultural capital in early modern Russia. Our analysis suggests that within this sample cultural capital was negatively correlated with wealth, but positively with father’s rank within ...
Added: February 16, 2015
Iserov A. A., В кн.: Всемирная история. В 6-ти тт.Т. 5: Мир в XIX веке: становление индустриальной цивилизации.: М.: Наука, 2014. С. 72–91.
The chapter proposes a wide overview of social processes in the nineteenth-century world. First of all, with all the exceptions also treated in the chapter, it deals with urbanization, democratization and the formation of capitalist classes and class conscience. ...
Added: October 17, 2014