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The Historical Writing of Catherine II: Dynasty and Self-Fashioning in “The Chesme Palace” (Chesmenskii Dvorets)
P. 86–95.
The article explores the Russian empress Catherine II’s attempt to fashion her individual and monarchical “self” in historical plays and articles written and published in the late 18th century (“Chesmenskiy dvorets (Chesma Palace)” in particular). The author interprets how Catherine II as an enlightened European monarch used theatrical stage and literature to communicate her political and ideological views as well as to position herself as a dynastic figure among the Rurikids, the Romanovs and members of the European monarchical houses.
Keywords: Екатерина IIпортретРомановыRurikids Dynastyсимволика властиРюриковичиЧесменский дворецthe Romanovs Catherine IIChesme PalaceHistorical Writingпортретная галереяисторические пьесы
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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
Главатских К. В., Новое литературное обозрение 2026 Т. 198 № 2 С. 26–40
The article examines the meaning of the theme of Fortune in the works of Hugo Falcandus, which shed light on the political turbulence in the Kingdom of Sicily in the second half of the 12th century. However, God remains almost completely absent in his narrative on the kingdom’s decline, while the Fortune becomes the main ...
Added: October 2, 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 ...
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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, ...
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Костомарова К. П., Litvina A., Успенский Ф. Б., Древнейшие государства Восточной Европы 2025 С. 159–180
В статье исследуется семантика и функционирование утраченного в современном русском языке слова «ятровь», обозначавшее некую некровную родственницу. Авторы сосредотачиваются на специфике употребления термина в нарративе древнейших русских летописей, выявляя его отличия от значений, фиксируемых в словарях. Особое внимание уделяется роли «ятрови» в системе обозначений свойственных отношений, её семантической связи со словом «брат» и андроцентричной перспективе ...
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Жуматина М.-С. Д., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2025 Т. 9 № 3 С. 303–331
The article analyzes the painting of Paul Cézanne through the fundamental relationship seeing-seen (voyant-visible), set out in the phenomenological teaching of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and conceptualized by us as the “dialectic of the seeing-seen”. For Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne had a special status as a “painter of painting”: the phenomenology of visible of Merleau-Ponty and his interpretation of ...
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Костомарова К. П., Litvina A., Uspenskij F., Древнейшие государства Восточной Европы 2025 № 2025 С. 159–180
В статье исследуются семантика и функционирование утраченного в современном русском языке слова «ятровь», обозначавшего некую некровную родственницу. Авторы сосредотачиваются на специфике употребления термина в нарративе древнейших русских летописей, выявляя его отличия от значений, фиксируемых в словарях. Особое внимание уделяется роли «ятрови» в системе обозначений свойственных отношений, её семантической связи со словом «брат» и андроцентричной перспективе династического ...
Added: June 7, 2025
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
Лавренченко М. Л., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2022 Т. 13 № 5 (115)
Among the study methods of the Old Rus’Chronicles, there are both macro approaches, when the entire source is analyzed, and micro approaches, when certain linguistic features or episodes of the narrative are examined. Considering the specific peculiarities of the Kyivan Chronicle, it seems reasonable to follow a middle path, which implies choosing the groups of ...
Added: February 23, 2025
Лавренченко М. Л., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2023 Т. 60 № 1 С. 102–112
The article discusses the phraseology of the relations between cities and princes, presented in the 12th-century
Kyivan Chronicle. Their relations have long been studied, including the stages of the formation of the
veche, the history of the so-called enthronement, and the degree of involvement of the clergy in this process. However, the researchers’ attention was not focused on ...
Added: February 20, 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