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Catherine the Great. A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works
“Catherine the Great: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works has an extensive A to Z section which includes several hundred entries. The bibliography provides a comprehensive list of publications concerning her life and work”
Research target:
History and Archeology
Language:
English
Selin A. A., Яблокова И. В., Вспомогательные исторические дисциплины 2026 Т. 45 № 3 С. 609–619
This article examines the possibility of reconstructing the archives of the Novgorod Prikaznaya Izba (office) from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the materials of which were partially destroyed and partially scattered across various archival repositories. Some of these materials have been introduced into scholarly circulation, while others remain unidentified. There is a debate ...
Added: October 5, 2026
Popov A., Pivovarov N. Y., Russian Review 2026 Vol. 85 No. 4 P. 461–477
This article challenges the conventional narrative that the transferable ruble was conceived as a Soviet means of challenging Western financial hegemony. Drawing on previously unpublished archival mate rial from Russian state archives, it argues that the currency emerged primarily from a pragmatic need to settle accumulated debts within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). ...
Added: October 5, 2026
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This collection presents papers from the 17th All-Russian Scientific Conference (2026), attended by staff and students from Russian higher education institutions, school teachers, and professionals from libraries and archives engaged in research on national history and historiography. ...
Added: October 5, 2026
Вебер М., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 318–353
In the concluding part of the Second Anti-Critique (1910), Max Weber summarizes the substantive
findings of his own contributions to the debate with the historian Felix Rachfahl. In doing so, he uses the response to his relentless critic as an opportunity to articulate once again, in an explicit manner and for both his own benefit and that of the ...
Added: October 4, 2026
Kamenskii A. B., Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2026.
This volume has been prepared to mark the anniversary of the distinguished Ural scholar Dmitry Alekseyevich Redin. It presents research and published source texts contributed by Dmitry Alekseyevich’s colleagues, friends, and students. The diverse range of studies—covering various aspects of Russian social history from the late 16th through the 18th century, as well as issues ...
Added: October 3, 2026
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
Grishina D., Исаева В. М., Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2026 Vol. 2 No. 3 P. 47–64
The second half of the nineteenth century became a time of many dramatic events on the Korean peninsula. With opening the country to trade and diplomacy with Westernized (Japan) or Western (USA, France, Great Britain) countries led to a division within Korean society, since the 1880s Chosŏn (Korea) has entered the age of political and ...
Added: October 2, 2026
Крестьянников Е. А., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 174–201
This article continues previously published research (Krest’yannikov, E. A. (2025) “‘Kubki vlasti’ Petra Vologodskogo: kar’ernye stupeni yurista v usloviyakh revolyutsii i Grazhdanskoi voiny (1917–1919). Chast’ I” [“Petr Vologodskii ‘Cups of Power’: Career Steps of a Lawyer in the Time of Revolutions and Civil War (1917–1919). Part I”], Territoriya: zhurnal istoricheskikh issledovanii, 2, pp. 164–200) and ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Boyarchenkov V., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 1 С. 61–94
В статье рассматривается место, которое занимали в структуре и практиках московского Общества истории и древностей российских (ОИДР) исследователи из других городов. Установлено, что руководство Общества, на протяжении многих десятилетий декларируя в уставе заинтересованность в привлечении знатоков старины со всей России, в то же время крайне неохотно предоставляло им полноправный статус действительных членов. Опора на патронажные ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Parsamov V., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 240–254
Рецензия на книгу: Лямина Е., Самовер Н. Иван Крылов – Superstar. Феномен русского баснописца. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2024. 760 с. ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Chronopoulos D., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 225–239
Рецензия на книгу: Миллер А. И. Имперская нация в Российской империи. М.: ИНИОН РАН, 2025. 201 с. ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Egorova G., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 1 С. 212–228
Рецензия на книгу: Попов А. Д. Созвездие немеркнущей славы: города-герои Юга России и советская память о Великой Отечественной войне. Симферополь: Н. Орiанда, 2025. 276 с. ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Gorelov R., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 1 С. 200–211
Рецензия на книгу: Быстрова И. В. Британский союзник: организация военно-экономических поставок в СССР в 1941–1945 гг. Документальное исследование. М.: Весь мир, 2022. 576 с. ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Алымов С. С., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 2(160) Статья 21
The article discusses the development of the philosophy of history, i.e. the most general ideas about history and its patterns in the USSR in the 1920s - 1980s. It considers the debates on history that unfolded around O. Spengler's civilizational approach and the criticism of mechanism in the 1920s, the philosophy of history of V. ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Ганин А. В., Диалог со временем 2026 № 96 С. 451–454
The article provides an overview of the new book by the famous historian and philosopher S.A. Ekshtut, "The Daily Life of the Russian Intelligentsia during the Decline of the Empire," which is the result of the author's many years of research on the history of the Russian intelligentsia of the XIX – early XX century. The ideas, sometimes ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Vakhrukova K., Петербургская социология сегодня 2025 № 30 С. 28–51
The digital age has radically changed the landscape of the humanities, introducing new methodologies, tools, and challenges. This has also been reflected in the field of oral history. This transformation has been particularly evident in the UK, where long-standing oral history archives and recent digitization projects have come together to redefine how scholars collect, preserve, ...
Added: October 1, 2026
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
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
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
Agapova A., В кн.: Платоновские чтения: материалы и доклады XXVII Всероссийской конференции молодых историков (Самара, 10-11 декабря 2021 г.).: Самара: Самарская гуманитарная академия, 2022. С. 26–27.
Статья посвящена образовательному опыту в служебной биографии В. Т. Золотницкого ...
Added: August 24, 2022
М.: Ладомир, 2021.
"Memoirs" of Catherine II - the brightest document of the Age of Enlightenment. A new translation from French has been made for this edition. The publication is supplemented with previously unpublished examples of Catherine's epistolary heritage. ...
Added: May 4, 2022
Gornostaev A., , in: Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past.: L., NY: Routledge, 2019. Ch. 6 P. 71–82.
Running away to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was an option available to Russian peasants seeking to improve their lives. Based on extensive archival research, this chapter traces the peasants’ process of flight, from leaving official places of residence and crossing the border to being captured or settling down. It seeks to understand the peasants’ motives and ...
Added: September 28, 2020
Korchmina E. S., Уральский исторический вестник 2020 Т. 66 № 1 С. 71–82
Assessing the incomes of the Russian population in the 18th century is one of the urgent tasks in the economic history of pre-industrial Russia. The difficulty of the task is determined by the existence of serfdom in Russia, since it preserved an archaic economy with its barter exchange. This article presents the first results of the ...
Added: July 19, 2020
Babkova G. O., В кн.: Общественная мысль России: с древнейших времен до середины ХХ в. : в 4 т. Т. 2 : Общественная мысль России XVIII – первой четверти XIX в.Т. 2.: РОССПЭН, 2020. Гл. 4 С. 218–297.
В главе рассматриваются основные этапы эволюциии представлений о преступлении и наказании в России XVIII - начала XIX вв., а также их терминолггическая фиксация как на уровне официальных нормативно-правовых актов, так и в общественной мысли указанного периода. ...
Added: July 11, 2020