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Literacy and Education among the Nobility in Post-Petrine Russia
Paedagogica Historica. 2022. Vol. 58. No. 4. P. 541-554.
Fedyukin I.
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 first post-Petrine generation of the Russian elite and to explore the factors that affected one’ likelihood of being literate. The data suggests that literacy indeed has become the norm among the nobles, and illiteracy, even though not uncommon, came to predominantly be associated with relative social marginality.
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
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., / Basic Research Programme. 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., Gabdrakhmanov S., / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2014.
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: August 20, 2014
Fedyukin I., / Basic Research Programme. 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., / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2014.
In this article we employ the data from Heraldry registers of young nobles, as well as records of the Land Cadet Corps, to examine the career and education strategies of Russian elite in post-Petrine period (1730s-1740s). We demonstrate that the nobles had clearly articulated preferences and analyze the factors that could have shaped their choices, ...
Added: October 15, 2014
Fedyukin I., European History Quarterly 2020
This article uses the case of the Chancellery for Confiscation in Russia in the 1730s to explore state capacity in the context of emerging early modern bureaucracy. While the Chancellery was created to enforce collection of all sorts of payments from the empire’s subjects, the article focuses in particular on fines imposed on government officials ...
Added: January 27, 2020
Elena Smilianskaia, Russian History 2013 Vol. 40 No. 3-4 P. 364-380
The case of Petr Saltykov, which stretched on between 1758 and 1765, with a surprising coda in 1796, is noteworthy in many respects. The material collected in connection with Saltykov’s crime is useful for an investigation into magic belief as such, offering parallels and supplementary information to the dozens of “magic trials” of the 18th ...
Added: October 12, 2013
Anisimov E., Базарова Т. А., Великий Новгород : Новгородский государственный университет, 2015
The book includes different documents on the history of Novgorod in the age of Peter the Great taken from the Historical Archive of Saint-Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ...
Added: March 16, 2015
Fedyukin I., / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2016.
This article explores the notion of discipline in Russia since the late 17th century and up to the accession of Catherine II. Discipline and disciplining occupy a central place in our thinking about early modern state, and the reconstruction of debates about school building helps to illuminate the ways in which this notion has been ...
Added: June 10, 2016
Ефимов А. В., Cahiers du Monde Russe 2020 Т. 61 № 1-2 С. 63-80
The money stock of Russia in the age of Peter I’s reform had a significant “dark matter” component. That is to say, large sums were hoarded or traded on a black or grey market. Such operations left no trace in official documents and are therefore invisible to historians. The article attempts, firstly, to elucidate some of ...
Added: September 26, 2020
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., / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2016.
Radical “Westernizing” transformations in extra-European countries, from Peter I’s Russia to Meiji Japan, are traditionally presented as a response to threats from the more militarily and technologically advanced European powers. This corresponds to the general tendency to view war as the driving force behind early modern state-building. Yet, how exactly did such transformations become possible? ...
Added: June 10, 2016
Oleg Rusakovskiy, War in History 2021
This article focuses on 'On Military Tactics' (O ratnom povedeni), composed in winter
1700/1701 by Ivan Pososhkov and considered to be one of the first analytical military treatises
written in the Russian language. Pososhkov heavily criticized foreign influences on native warfare,
in particular, the Western infantry tactics and drill introduced by the tsar Peter the Great and
his predecessors and ...
Added: June 6, 2021
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Articles on Russian History: Essays in Honor of Gary Marker ...
Added: May 10, 2014
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
Anisimov E., Canadian-American Slavic Studies 2013 № 47 С. 473-491
This article is devoted to the evaluation of the first Russian Emperor, Peter I. According to the author, Russia became a European power thanks largely to his efforts. But, at the same time, we cannot reject other points of view about Peter I. Therefore, the author appears both as a "Westerner" who justifies and defends ...
Added: March 16, 2015
СПб. : Европейский дом, 2018
В сборнике публикуются статьи, подготовленные участниками IX Международного петровского конгресса "Европейские маршруты Петра Великого: К 300-летию визита Петра I во Францию". Конгресс проходил 20–22 апреля 2017 года в Париже и в Реймсе. Публикуются статьи историков и искусствоведов из Петербурга, Москвы, Волгограда, Саратова, а также Парижа, Реймса, Барселоны, Берлина, Будапешта, Венеции, Вены, Генуи, Дрездена, Кембриджа, Милана. ...
Added: June 21, 2018
Volkova I. V., Вопросы истории 2006 № 3 С. 35-51
Added: February 18, 2014
Fedyukin I., Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019
In this monograph I consider the role of institutional entrepreneurs –“projectors” in transferring organizational forms and building new secular school in Russia in the first half of the 18th century. During the period from the beginning of Peter I’s reforms until the accession of Catherine II, the institutional landscape of education in Russia has changed ...
Added: April 11, 2017
Миронов Б. Н., Общественные науки и современность 2009 № 4 С. 98-113
В статье опровергаются идеи о деспотическом характере и неизменности российского самодержавия. Автор показывает, что в истории основания легитимности власти менялись, что обычай, культурная традиция, закон, а также высшие сословия, прежде всего дворянство, а затем, во все возрастающей мере – общественные организации – оказывали влияние на государственное управление. Исторически прослеживаются такие формы монархии как народная монархия ...
Added: April 4, 2013
М. : Исторический факультет МГУ, 2019
В издании публикуются полные тексты докладов участников международной конференции Шестые чтения памяти академика Л.В.Милова по широкому кругу проьблем отечественной истории, в том числе: творчество Л.В.Милова и современные представления об истории России. Осмысление особенностей
географии и истории России современниками и историками; Публикация источников по истории России Средневековья и Раннего Нового времени: проблемы и подходы; Проблемы истории древнерусского права; Темпоральная культура средневековой ...
Added: October 27, 2019
Fedyukin I., Collis R., Zitser E., International History Review 2020 Vol. 42 No. 1 P. 60-76
Early in 1728, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Duke of Liria—a Spanish diplomat, prominent Jacobite, and an illegitimate grandson of James II—sought to establish a curiously-titled fraternity called the ‘Order of the Anti-Sober’. Using the surviving charter of the proposed fraternal order as a point of departure, this article reconstructs the context and the meaning ...
Added: November 29, 2018
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