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Прекрасное и утилитарное на Востоке. От докерамического неолита до искусства ислама
M. :
IOS RAS, 2024.
Большаков В. А., Дандамаева З. Э., Дубровская Д. В., Zinchenko S., Корниенко Т. В., Лебедев М. А., Малых С. Е., Сафонова Н. В., Шевченко М. Ю.
Editor-in-chief: Дубровская Д. В., Zinchenko S.
It would seem that beauty and utility are connected only conditionally: the beautiful must have a use
must have a use, and it is only material culture that gives this ephemeral connection a more practical meaning.
this ephemeral connection with a more practical meaning. Before aesthetics
was entitled to self-sufficiency, the existence of art objects was almost exclusively conditioned by the will of the solvent customer.
of the solvent client. Regardless of their ultimate use, these objects (from
domestic utensils to religious and mystical artefacts) were created in the name of his majesty, the Order.
majesty of the Order - in fulfilment of a predetermined purpose that had nothing to do with the freedom of the artist.
which had nothing to do with freedom of artistic expression.
The collective monograph of the Department of Art and Material Culture of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences is devoted to the beautiful and utilitarian in the context of the Ancient East, the Great Silk Road and the art of the Muslim world.
Chapters
Zinchenko S., В кн.: Прекрасное и утилитарное на Востоке. От докерамического неолита до искусства ислама.: М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2024. Гл. 2 С. 63–85.
The theme of the microcosm in the art of the Ancient East is taken up in the chapter written by S. A. Zinchenko, who devoted the study to the images of monster-like creatures, which constitute a rather interesting corpus of monuments of art in West Asia during the pre-Ceramic Neolithic period. interesting corpus of monuments of art ...
Added: November 20, 2024
Uspensky B. A., Словесность и история 2026 № 3 С. 291–297
The publication is dedicated to Vladimir Ivanovich Malyshev (1910–1976), an outstanding 20th-century archaeographer and the founder of the Repository of Ancient Manuscripts (Drevlekhranilishche) of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) in St. Petersburg. The author recalls his conversations with V. I. Malyshev. Along with several episodes from the scholar's archaeographic work and events during ...
Added: October 22, 2026
Pochekaev R. Y., Studia Turkologica 2026 Т. 1 № 2 С. 4–12
The goal of article is an attempt to clarify the meaning of the term “buralozhnik” which is met in edicts (yarliks) of the Golden Horde khans to Russian metropolitans. The historiography of the question is analyzed since the works of the 19th c. (by I. D. Belyaev, I. N. Berezin, etc.) to the publications of ...
Added: October 21, 2026
Kavtaradze S., Коровин И. Ю., Царин В. Е., Журнал ВШЭ по искусству и дизайну 2026 № 11 (3|2026) С. 122–211
The article is dedicated to the history of the design and construction of the Metropol Hotel building in Moscow, primarily its facades. This Art Nouveau monument has become a kind of manifesto of this Russian variant of the style, which involved the most famous architects and artists of the time. It is generally accepted at present ...
Added: October 20, 2026
Zabrodina E., Academia. Журнал об искусстве и истории искусства 2026 № 3 С. 489–506
The iconographic theme of the Virgin among the Virgins gained popularity in Early Netherlandish painting in the last third of the fifteenth century, appearing in the works of Hans Memling and Hugo van der Goes, as well as in altarpieces by anonymous Bruges masters, such as the Master of the Legend of St Lucy. It ...
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Боголюбов Е. А., Попов А. К., Ежегодник финно-угорских исследований 2026 Т. 20 № 3 С. 387–397
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Nikolay Sarkisyan, Revolutionary Russia 2025 Vol. 38 No. 1 P. 1–23
This article examines the emergence and evolution of revolutionary museology in Imperial Russia between 1901 and 1917, addressing a previously understudied aspect of revolutionary culture. By analysing four successive attempts to establish revolutionary museums – the Russian Museum in Geneva (1901–1902), Maxim Gorky’s initiative on Capri (1912–1913), Vladimir Burtsev’s various projects, and the Petrograd House ...
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Zenkin S., P.: Classiques Garnier, 2025.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, visual image (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.) can often be a character in literary and film plots, an element of the fictional world. Its narrative forms and functions are explored from a theoretical and comparative perspective. ...
Added: October 13, 2026
ИДВ РАН, 2026.
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Added: October 12, 2026
Dadykina M., Известия Российской академии образования 2026 Т. 2 № 74 С. 50–65
In modern economic law, the concept of "business entity" refers to an individual or legal entity (or association) en- gaged in economic activity for profit. Since the concept of a legal entity in Russia only fully developed in the late 18th century, the use of this term in the context of the Russian economy of ...
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М.: Весь мир, 2025.
Коллективная монография представляет собой результат трехлетней исследовательской работы, объединившей учёных разных специальностей и возрастов в рамках одноименного исследовательского проекта РНФ №23-18-00621, который реализовывался на базе Института всеобщей истории РАН.
В книге представлен новый взгляд на географию и идеологию феномена «глобальной холодной войны» в период «долгих семидесятых» годов (1964-1982 гг.). Авторы уделяют особое внимание явлению «революционных столиц» ...
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Kanaev A. A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2026 № 3(74) С. 159–168
The current article is dedicated to the specifics of how the image of the “East” correlated with Russian national identity in the political languages of Russian nationalists in the 1990s. The focus is on situations in which certain positive features of the imaginary “East,” as opposed to the “West,” were associated with the Russian nation. ...
Added: October 10, 2026
Seleznev M., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 3 No. 86 P. 589–592
The article reconstructs the 'biography' of an alleged (in fact, non-existent) fragment of
4QDeutq said to contain a non-Masoretic reading of Deut 32 : 8. It traces how erroneous
references to the fragment emerged during the preliminary publication of the Scrolls in the
1950s, the scholarly attention this fragment received, its eventual disappearance from Qumran
studies after the official ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Абзалов Л. Ф., Гатин М., Мустакимов И. А. et al., Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья 2026 № 22 С. 395–406
The article is devoted to the analysis of the office of mushrif in the states of traditional Orient. The sources and researches characterize this institution in different ways. One authors consider mushrif as a representative of a treasure office, others states that he was a kind of ‘undercover agent” who fulfilled ruler’s secret orders in ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Popov A., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 689–699
The article examines the export of Soviet oil to the CMEA countries in 1965–1985, relying on statistical data from declassified collections of Foreign Trade of CMEA Member Countries, which are being made available to scholars for the first time. The author argues that economic motives played a significant role in the expansion of Soviet oil ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143
The issue delivers an analysis of schellingian motives in the later works by A.F. Losev. The author brings information about Losev’s retrospective evaluation of Schelling’s influence on the formation of his own philosophical approach, it’s specific character and it’s grade. The author shows that all the main investigation projects of the later Losev which have ...
Added: October 7, 2026
Khlevniuk O. V., Journal of Slavic Military Studies 2026 Vol. 39 No. 3 P. 447–466
The Gulag as a system of terror and forced labor was the
cornerstone of Soviet mobilization efforts in the 1930s.
Paradoxically, during the war with Nazi Germany, the
Gulag’s capacities and economic significance did not grow,
but in fact declined, contrary to what one would expect. The
massive use of prisoners as a source for replenishing the
army and the huge ...
Added: October 7, 2026
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
Болдырева Д. И., Обсерватория культуры 2025 Т. 22 № 1 С. 104–110
The popularity of the traditional story of the legend of Meng Jiangnu is increasing in modern culture: every year there are more and more lite
rary, theatrical and cinematographic references, and the number of films, TV series and music videos is multiplying. Culture reacts sensitively to any changes in society — new forms of embodiment of ...
Added: April 29, 2025
Egorova A., Журнал ВШЭ по искусству и дизайну 2024 № 4 С. 216–239
The article focuses on the Speculum theologiae miniatures, a distinctive collection of instructional illustrations that played a significant role in Catholic education from the 13th to 15th centuries. These illustrations feature a blend of abstract designs, such as tables and circular diagrams, alongside specific imagery including celestial beings like cherubs and seraphs, as well as ...
Added: March 2, 2025
Egorova A., Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 5: Вопросы истории и теории христианского искусства 2019 № 35 С. 33–47
The Mirror of Theology (Speculum theologiae) is a unique example of a book miniature of the Latin Middle Ages. It represents an embodiment of the Catholic didactics of the 13th 15th centuries concentrated to its maximum. This article studies one of the miniatures of the illustrative range of the Speculum theologiae with a schematic drawing ...
Added: March 2, 2025
Zinchenko S., В кн.: Прекрасное и утилитарное на Востоке. От докерамического неолита до искусства ислама.: М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2024. Гл. 2 С. 63–85.
The theme of the microcosm in the art of the Ancient East is taken up in the chapter written by S. A. Zinchenko, who devoted the study to the images of monster-like creatures, which constitute a rather interesting corpus of monuments of art in West Asia during the pre-Ceramic Neolithic period. interesting corpus of monuments of art ...
Added: November 20, 2024
Kavtaradze S., В кн.: Наука, образование и экспериментальное проектирование. Труды МАРХИ : Материалы международной научно-практической конференции 6–10 апреля 2020 г.: М.: МАРХИ, 2020. С. 121–124.
Old Borisoglebsky Cathedral in Staritsa, built in 1558-1561 and disassembled in 1802-1804 is one of the most mysterious buildings of the era of Ivan the Terrible. The author offers a hypothesis that the unusual image of this temple is due to the desire of a high-ranking customer to reproduce the Jerusalem Temple of the Holy ...
Added: December 9, 2020
М.: Издательство "Индрик", 2020.
The fifteenth and final issue of the almanac focuses on two related
topics. In the first section of "About freaks and people" we are talking about physical
cal otherness, in fact, inherent in some of the characters passedor only imaginary, i.e., interpreted as inferiority and moral
the existing idea of an author for whom "the Other" is not
only ...
Added: November 3, 2020
Vorobeva D., В кн.: Современное искусство Востока. Сборник материалов международной научной конференции.: М.: ММСИ, ГИИ, 2017. С. 348–353.
Сборник является итогом прошедшей в Москве 6–9 октября 2015 года Первой международной конференции «Современное искусство Востока». В него вошли более 50 докладов участников, посвященных разным областям искусствознания: архитектуре, декоративно-прикладному
и изобразительному искусствам, музыке, театру и кино разных направлений—как традиционных, так и актуальных для Восточного региона, а также теоретические статьи и статьи, посвященные проблеме ориентализма в современном ...
Added: October 26, 2018