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War, Peace, and Territory in Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Outdoor Performances
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The article discusses the late 18th century Russian outdoor performances and demonstrates that “theatrical” techniques of staging power in eighteenth-century Russia were used for political purposes. The victory over the Ottoman Empire was celebrated by a grand open-air performance festival in Moscow in 1775 whose intention was to demonstrate not only the monarch’s power over her enemies, external as well as internal, but also the claim that the Russian empress Catherine II is able to transform nature as if it were nothing but a theater coulisse.
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De Gruyter, 2019.
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
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2025.
This volume brings together a series of chapters, mainly (but not only) from papers presented at the A Danubio ad Gothiam International Conference, organized in Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, and Bavay, by the DANUBIUS Project (University of Lille / HALMA-UMR 8164 Research Center), from the 24th to the 27th of November 2021. The aim of this meeting was to discuss ...
Added: December 9, 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
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
Silvestrova K., Myslenkov S., Puzina O. et al., Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 2023 Vol. 11 No. 4 Article 887
This paper reports the water temperature structure and associated coastal processes in the NE part of the Black Sea. In situ temperature was measured in the water area of the Utrish Nature Reserve. The thermistor chain was moored in 2020 and included 6–10 temperature sensors with an accuracy of ±0.025 °C and time step of ...
Added: October 24, 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
Kantor V., Kiseleva M., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2023 Т. 6 № 4 С. 11–34
The article is devoted to the analysis of the event history of Russia of the 2nd half of the 18th century, its actors, first of all, Catherine the Great, who ruled the empire for 34 years. The opportunity to compare the well-known material of the internal and external history of the state with the assessment of current events in the ...
Added: January 9, 2024
Petrova M., 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
Petrova M., 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
Vinogradov A., В кн.: Древнейшие государства Восточной Европы. 2023 год: Черноморский регион в античности и раннем средневековье: проблемы исторической географии.: М.: ГАУГН-Пресс, 2023. С. 428–431.
One of the main problems in studying the toponymy of the Northern Black Sea
region is our fragmentary knowledge about it, which is collected bit by bit from written
sources, inscriptions, ethnography, etc. Therefore, the discovery of several local
toponyms is always a very important event for the toponymy of a region. This note
will focus on several toponyms ...
Added: November 23, 2023