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О "Записках" Массона
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Массон Ш. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 1996.
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
Alexander Kamenskii, Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe) 2025 Т. 66 № 1-2 С. 127–149
This article, based on materials from the political investigation bodies of the 18th century (the Preobrazhensky Prikaz, the Chancellery of Secret and Investigative Affairs, and the Secret Expedition of the Senate), examines how the practice of placing political criminals recognized as mentally ill in monasteries was formed and changed throughout the 18th century, and what ...
Added: April 10, 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
Belan M., В кн.: История России с древнейших времен до XXI века: проблемы, дискуссии, новые взгляды: проблемы, дискуссии, новые взгляды: сборник статей Международной научно-практической школы-конференции молодых ученых (22–25 октября 2024 г.).: Институт российской истории РАН, 2024. С. 120–131.
The article focuses on the analysis of the relationship of the duma and the entire urban society with the police (mayor) and with the regimental offices of infantry and cavalry regiments that arrived in the city to stand. Usingthe example of the city of Novaya Ladoga in the 1800s – 1820s (documents of the Duma on ...
Added: September 26, 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
Loskutova M., В кн.: Mare Liberum : Юбилейный сборник в честь Дмитрия Николаевича Копелева.: СПб.: Крига, 2023. С. 159–178.
В статье анализируется динамика экспортной торговли лесом из балтийских портов Российской империи в XVIII в. и причины запрета на экспорт леса, введенный Павлом I в 1798 г. ...
Added: March 20, 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