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"За Любовь и Отечество". Придворная политика и происхождение первого российского дамского ордена
С. 171–207.
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Kamenskii A. B., Quaestio Rossica 2026 Т. 14 № 3 С. 939–959
This article examines one of the significant figures in the system of governance of Russia during the reign of Catherine II: Prince Alexander Alekseevich Vyazemsky, Prosecutor General of the Senate, who held this post for approximately thirty years. During this period, the scope of his activities continually expanded to encompass the administration of finances; various construction ...
Added: October 3, 2026
Melentev F. I., М.: Фонд «Связь Эпох», 2026.
В брошюре рассказывается о роли Русского исторического общества в изучении документального наследия императрицы Екатерины Великой и распространении достоверных знаний о екатерининской эпохе. В издании рассмотрены взгляды на Екатерину II императоров Александра III и Николая II, которые были почетными председателями Императорского Русского исторического общества. Особое внимание уделено издательской программе ИРИО, предусматривавшей публикацию документов Екатерины II в ...
Added: July 1, 2026
Smilyanskaya E., Moriakov Y., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2025.
This monograph by Professor Elena B. Smilianskaia (NRU-HSE)
and Erofei Iu. Moriakov (National Historical Archive of Belarus)
is dedicated to the study of Charles Cathcart’s diplomatic mission
to Russia (1768–1772). The study of diplomatic correspondence,
memoranda, and diaries produced by Charles Cathcart and his
wife, who accompanied him to St. Petersburg, provides us with
front-row access to the diplomatic and ceremonial ...
Added: June 1, 2026
Novikova A., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 2(160)
This article examines the residence of the British envoy James Harris in St. Petersburg (1777—1783) as an instrument of his diplomatic mission. Despite growing scholarly interest in informal diplomacy, the embassy house as a space for representation and everyday sociability has rarely been the subject of dedicated research. Drawing on a wide range of sources, ...
Added: April 29, 2026
Babkova G. O., Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe) 2025 Т. 66 № 1-2 С. 101–125
Between the 1740s and 1760s, the Russian Empire witnessed significant changes in the organization of investigations and sentencing in cases involving juvenile offenders. A study of the records of several Russian judicial investigative and central institutions from the 1740s to the early 1760s allows us to state that there was no clear age of majority ...
Added: May 21, 2025
Rudnev D., Borisova T. Y., Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: История, филология 2022 Т. 22 № 2 С. 9 – 20
The aim of the article is to describe the system of means of expressing permission in the language of docu- ments of the 18th century. On the basis of linguistic material extracted from collections of published documents, pat- terns of expression of permission and their dynamics during the 18th century are revealed. In the time ...
Added: May 7, 2025
Novikova A., Russian Colonial Studies 2020 Т. 1 № 5 С. 15–34
В статье на основе неопубликованных документов из Российского государственного архива древних актов (РГАДА), периодики, воспоминаний современников и других источников исследуется символика придворных праздников Екатерины II. Автор статьи приходит к выводу, что торжества были частью политической стратегии императрицы, и их риторика менялась в зависимости от «целевой аудитории». Высокоторжественные дни, празднование которых выносилось на общеимперский уровень, были призваны легитимировать власть Екатерины в ...
Added: January 10, 2025
Leikin J., Elena Smilianskaia, NY: Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2024.
Volume 44 in the Hakluyt Society Third Series is Russian Faith, Honour & Courage Displayed in a Faithfull Narrative of the Russian Expedition by Sea in the Years 1769 & 1770, British Captain John Elphinstone’s four-volume account of his two years in the Russian navy, serving the Russian Empress Catherine the Great. The Faithfull Narrative contains descriptions of his ...
Added: December 23, 2024
Iserov A. A., Диалог со временем 2024 № 89 С. 319–333
In the Name of the Polish Constitution or the Russian Empire? The article deals with a story first mentioned in historiography by Moisei Alperovich. On February 13 (2), 1787, the Polish Count Ignacy Potocki (1750–1809) at a dinner party in Kiev told a former colonel of the Spanish army, the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816) ...
Added: December 12, 2024
Lagutina I., Quaestio Rossica 2024 Т. 12 № 4 С. 1411–1428
The author of the paper reconstructs the strategy of correspondence between Catherine II and the Swiss-German philosopher I. G. Zimmerman, which lasted from 1785 to 1792, for the first time analyzes the reasons for the change in the nature of the empress’s letters, turning from friendly messages, where correspondents act as partners in intellectual communication, ...
Added: November 19, 2024
Novikova A., Ab Imperio 2024 Т. 25 № 1 С. 191–197
This paper examines the new book "The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great: Governing with the Literary Pen" authored by Vera Proskurina. ...
Added: May 6, 2024
Pirari G., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2023 Т. 6 № 4 С. 84–107
Italy of the second half of the 18th century represented a peculiar archipelago of political, social and linguistic differences. The article explores the remarkable phenomenon of the time when this archipelago united in a choral move- ment to compose odes and epistles addressed to the figure of Empress Catherine the Great of the North. At the same ...
Added: February 6, 2024
Петрова М. С., Вестник Тюменского государственного университета. Гуманитарные исследования. Humanitates 2023 Т. 9 № 3 С. 60–76
Исследование проведено в междисциплинарном поле и посвящено истории права России XVIII в. Вопрос законодательного регулирования судебно-следственного процесса во второй половине XVIII в. широко освещен исследователями с точки зрения изучения нормотворчества, но лакуной остается реализация реформ на практике. В первую очередь это касается эффективности реформ суда и следствия времен Екатерины II: исследователи уделяют большое внимание второй ...
Added: December 30, 2023
Петрова М. С., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2023 Т. 6 № 3 С. 41–64
This article presents the results of a study of the decrees of Catherine the Great of 1763 «On Admonition of Those Who Will Come to Torture by Educated Priests, and on Preparation a Special Book for That» and «On the Procedure for Criminal Proceedings on Theft, Robbery and Keeping of the Fugitives and Criminals» aimed ...
Added: December 19, 2023
Novikova A., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2023 Т. 14 № 9
Referring to relevant approaches of New Diplomatic History, this article looks into aceremonial reception for the British envoy’s sister by a Russian court. Although theprocedure for introducing diplomatic spouses to European monarchs in the eighteenthcentury has been studied in depth, the issue of resolving ceremonial disputes remainsunanswered. The case of arrival of James Harris together ...
Added: November 10, 2023
Babkova G. O., В кн.: Культура и быт дворянства в провинциальной России XVIII века : в 4 т. Т. 4: "Ревнуя ко общей всево Отечества ползе и спокойствию”: Провинциальное дворянство России по материалам Уложенной комиссии 1767–1774 годов.: М.: РОССПЭН, 2022. Гл. 4 С. 142–189.
В центре исследования - стратегии поведения, а также практки адаптации политико-правовых моделей, сформулированных Екатериной II в "Наказе Комиссии о сочинении проекта нового Уложения" среди локального дворянства. Депутаты от дворянства уездов, призванные в Уложенную комиссию 1767-1774 гг., активно участвовали в дискуссиях по широкому спектру социальных вопросов, транслируя и вырабатывая собственную модель развития России, находившуюся, с их точки зрения, ...
Added: May 11, 2023
Smilyanskaya E., В кн.: Человек и власть в России XVII-XVIII веков. Сборник статей к семидесятипятилетию Евгения Викторовича Анисимова..: СПб.: Наука, 2022. Гл. 18 С. 325–344.
This article includes a translation of the little-known “Memorandum” on
the Cultivation of Land and Landscaping of Kamennyi Ostrov” (1769) from the
French, held in the collections of the College of Foreign Affairs in AVPRI. The
author of the Memorandum was the British Ambassador to the court of Catherine II,
Charles Cathcart. Cathcart chose to share his thoughts about ...
Added: January 17, 2023
Moriakov Y., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2022 № 481 С. 165–182
This article examines the legal cases and petitions about the crimes of Darya Saltykova, the most famous serial killer in eighteenth-century Russia. From the mid-1750s to 1762, Saltykova murdered and maimed serfs in her Moscow mansion at the intersection of Sretenka and Kuznetsky Most streets, as well as in the village of Troitskoye near Moscow. ...
Added: December 14, 2022
Smilyanskaya E., Velizhev M., Smilyanskaya I., Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2021.
The translation into Arabic of the text (enlarged and corrected) of the monograph by Irina Smilyanskaya, Mikhail Velizhev, Elena Smilyanskaya " Russia in the Mediterranean. The Archipelago Expedition of Catherine the Great" (first ed. in Russian - Moscow, 2011). The Russian presence in the Mediterranean began with the Archipelago expedition in conjunction with the Russo-Turkish War ...
Added: January 31, 2022
Erren L., , in: Weibliche Herrschaft im 18. Jahrhundert. Maria Theresia und Katharina die Große.: Transcript Verlag, 2020. P. 51–72.
Added: October 8, 2021
Novikova A., Новая и новейшая история 2021 Т. 65 № 5 С. 127–139
The article is devoted to the study of James Harris’s diplomatic mission to Russia (1778– 1783). During almost the entirety of his diplomatic mission, Harris was accompanied by his sister Kath- erine Gertrude and his wife Harriet. Katherine Gertrude Harris depicted the events during her stay in Russia in a series of diaries, which is ...
Added: October 4, 2021
Boltunova E., Новое литературное обозрение 2021 № 5(171) С. 61–79
The article provides analysis of the formation of political rhetoric in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. The author interprets public speeches of Alexander I to the Sejms of the Grand Duchy of Finland (1809) and the Kingdom of Poland (1818, 1820, 1825). The analysis is carried out by comparing sources to those ...
Added: August 26, 2021
Е.Ю. Моряков, Новая и новейшая история 2022 Т. 66 № 4 С. 55–71
In this article the author focuses on the practice of using new communication channels
between subjects and the sovereign in Russia. During the reign of Catherine II, the people of Russia
made extensive use of the post office to send petitions to the monarch; under Paul I, the petition box
and newspapers were used for the same purpose. ...
Added: August 4, 2021