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Agustin de Betancourt: one life - two disfavors
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The life of the “Russian Spaniard” – Agustin de Betancourt – was split into two parts between Spain and Russia. New data obtained from Russian archives and other documentary sources clarifies the unexplored moments in the biography of one of Spain’s best mechanical engineers, explains the reasons for his hasty departure from Spain and move to St. Petersburg, traces the development of his career in Russia and helps to understand the reason why the contribution of one of the most talented engineers of his time and one of the most important participants in the construction of the new “Alexandrian” Russia was diminished by those who accidentally or deliberately erased the memory of him from future generations
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Volosyuk O. V. L.: CRC Press, 2021.
Chernov A., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2026 Т. 9 № 2 С. 217–230
This publication introduces a previously unpublished note by prominent conservative thinker and diplomat Alexandru Sturdza, "The Application of the Holy Alliance to the Current Situation," written in October 1820. The document emerged in the context of an acute crisis of the Vienna system caused by a wave of revolutionary uprisings in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, ...
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Boltunova E., Новая и новейшая история 2026 Vol. 70 No. 1 P. 17–28
This article examines the ceremonial practices surrounding the burial and commemoration of Emperor Alexander I and their role in articulating hierarchical representations of imperial space. Alexander I died in November 1825 in Taganrog, more than one thousand miles from Saint Petersburg, and the transfer of his body to the imperial capital took several months. The funeral cortege travelled through ...
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Volosyuk O. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: История России 2025 Т. 24 № 1 С. 44–57
The article examines the main stages of the career of the Spanish engineer Agustin de Betancourt, who had a significant influence on the development of engineering in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century and made a significant contribution to the formation of the country's cultural heritage. Particular attention is paid to poorly studied ...
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Loskutova M., Диалог со временем 2025 № 90 С. 382–388
A new book by Ekaterina Boltunova not only analyzes the events of the Nicolas I's coro nation in Warsaw in 1829 but raises a broad range of questions related to the history of Russian policy on its Polish lands in the first three decades of the 19th century. The novel ty of this research is ...
Added: March 29, 2025
Volosyuk O. V., Solodkova O., Жуков Н. Н., Ибероамериканские тетради 2024 № 4 С. 147–165
2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Agustín de Betancourt (1758–1824), a distinguished Spanish and Russian engineer and scientist. His contribution to the development of engineering in both Spain and Russia is well-known; however, his role as a link between the two countries’ cultures is of particular interest. The research on the «Russian» period of Betancourt’s ...
Added: January 20, 2025
Olga Volosyuk, Revista de Obras Publicas 2024 No. 3651 P. 67–73
The "Spanish" period of the life of Spanish engineer Agustin de Betancourt is known in some detail. Researchers of the history of science began to study his "Russian" biography in the 1960s, but only the latest scientific studies by Russian scholars reveal new facets of his life in Russia. Betancourt's "material" legacy can be found in ...
Added: December 19, 2024
Chernov A., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: История России 2014 С. 61–71
The article describes the process of preparation and holding of congresses in Troppau and Laibach. At the beginning of 1820 there was a revolution of Spain. The Russian diplomats headed by Emperor Alexander I and J. Capodistria offered to convene the congress to develop the measures to combat the Spanish revolution. But the British and ...
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Chernov A., Блохин В. В., Научный диалог 2020 № 12 С. 378–393
The problem of the periodization of the reign of Emperor Alexander I in the works of Soviet historians is considered. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that even now the question of the periodization of this period causes controversy among scientists. Understanding that any perio- dization is conditional, which has emerged ...
Added: December 5, 2024
Chernov A., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2024 Т. 7 № 3 С. 77–95
The article deals with the reconstruction of views of A. S. Sturdza on revolutions that took place in Southern Europe in the early 1820s. While Sturdza was the diplomat of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Europe was full of rebellions. In 1820–1821 the uprisings broke out in Spain, Italy (Naples and Turin), Portugal, ...
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Boltunova E., Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2024 Vol. 25 No. 4 P. 845–859
In recent years, research on the Russian Empire has been increasingly focused on the reign of Nicholas I (1825–55). There has been a steady growth in the number of works dealing with his person, his views, and his policies long before February 2022. This focus on Nicholas resembles the Petrine turn of the late 1990s ...
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Alexeeva T. A., В кн.: Испания. Книга открытий. Русский взгляд.: Центр книги Рудомино, 2022. С. 54–58.
The article is devoted to the remarkable episode of Russian-Spanish relations, discovered by the researcher while studying Russian periodicals of 1808-1814. ...
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Mikhail A. Belan, Slavonic and East European Review 2024 Vol. 102 No. 2 P. 287–309
The role of the townspeople of Staraia Russa, the district capital of Novgorod province and from 1825 the centre of military colonies, in two cholera riots in 1831 has received little attention. The article analyses the actions and trial of 139 persons The previously unexplored documents of the military investigation commission (accusations, testimonies of victims, ...
Added: December 15, 2023
Vasilenko Y. V., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2023 Т. 14 № 9(131) Статья 18
The article analyzes inter-factional contradictions and struggles in the Spanish party “Moderados” in the middle of the 19th century. The author proposes to structure this party as consisting of two wings: liberal-conservative (left flank) and traditionalist (right flank); and if the first is defined by him as the mainstream of the party, then the second ...
Added: November 22, 2023
Volosyuk O. V., Ибероамериканские тетради 2023 Т. 11 № 3 С. 184–200
The Monroe Doctrine, proclaimed in 1823, was successfully used by the United States throughout the 19th century to protect US territorial and political interests in the Western Hemisphere. One of the most obvious examples of its application in international relations was the Spanish-American War of 1898. The Russian ambassador in Madrid, Dmitry Shevich, was an ...
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Belan M., В кн.: История России с древнейших времен до XXI века: проблемы, дискуссии, новые взгляды: сборник статей Международной научно-практической школы-конференции молодых ученых (25–28 октября 2022 г.).: М.: Институт российской истории РАН, 2022.
The article examines the service of militiamen who entered in 1812 from the towns of the St. Petersburg province, focusing on the circumstances of their dismissal from the service of the rank and file in 1814-1815. The mechanism of dismissal are examined in detail. Based on the sources, coming from local council archives where the ...
Added: September 23, 2023
Belan M., Rivista Europea di Studi Napoleonici e dell'Età delle Restaurazioni 2022 Vol. 1 No. 9-23
This article explores how merchant communes of three towns of St. Petersburg province
supplied the money donations and other help for the organization of two militia in 1806-07 and 181213 – the first experience of national monilization in Russia. The merchants represented the upper
class of the urban commoners. The merchants were excused conscription, but during the ...
Added: September 23, 2023