Evgenii Egorov’s dissertation is devoted to an actual historical problem. The author focuses on Scandinavianism as a complex cultural phenomenon and multilevel political ideology that emerged in the 1840s, flourished in the 1850s — early 1860s and gradually lost influence after the defeat of Denmark in the Second War for Schleswig of 1864.
Диссертационное исследование А. С. Бочкарева о дезертирстве в армии Российского царства середины XVII в. — оригинальный и новаторский труд на весьма актуальную тему (далеко не все возможные перспективы, вырастающие из данного — законченного — труда автор счел возможным обозначить).
Тема диссертационного исследования М. И. Петровой представляется несомненно значимой для отечественной исторической науки, поскольку изучение истории регионов Российской Федерации является одной из ее важнейших задач. Выбор Кирьяжского (Куркиёкского) погоста в качестве региона исследования не случаен.
‘The biographical turn’ that occurred in historical scholarship at the turn of the twenty-first century transformed the possibilities and scope of historical biography, refining the historian’s toolkit, proposing new principles for selecting personalities, expanding the range of questions, directing the researcher’s focus towards the identification and understanding of ‘individuality,’ introducing interpretative methods into research practice, identifying models and types of biographical studies, etc.
the article is devoted to describing Karelian-specific features of the censuses of 1897 and 1926 by means of comprehensive archival data analysis from the documentary collections of statistical regional operators responsible for the two census campaigns (currently stored in the National Archives of the Republic of Karelia). Both enterprises were meant as the ultimate collection of valuable and most overall inclusive data about the national population. The article shows both the scientific and genealogically oriented potentials of the archival census documents.
The Russian Empire’s attempts to solve the ‘Finnish question’ at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries are discussed within the context of the Empire’s national policy, in particular, that pertaining to the Polish and Baltic questions. The author identifies the general policy directions for these three regions, as well as the peculiarities characteristic of the situation in Finland. The author concludes that the policy towards Finland was quite in line with the general trends in the transformation of the empire’s national policy, but at the same time had a number of important special features.
On the basis of both published and archival documents (materials from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts) the connections between the Jacobites, the Swedish politicians and diplomats, and the Russian tsar Peter the Great in 1716 - early 1717 are investigated. The main channel of the Jacobite influence at the Russian court and personally on Peter I was doctor Robert Erskine, a Scot and a Jacobite. At that time the Swedish court was split into several factions one of which was presented by the king Charles XII’s favorite and virtual Prime Minister baron Georg Heinrich von Görtz, the Swedish ambassador in the Great Britain Carl Gyllenborg, his brother and the secretary of Görtz Gustav Gyllenborg, and the Swedish ambassador Erik Sparre. They tried to end the Great Northern War, make peace with Russia and use it in Jacobite projects of overthrowing king George I from the British throne. Peter I used the Jacobites and, on the other hand, von Görtz’s Swedish supporters in his own interests to create a diplomatic channel to negotiate with Charles XII in order to finish the war which was exhausting for Russia.
The article deals with a poorly researched aspect of the history of the Olonets ‘New Model’ regiments (1649-1666) - the phenomenon of mass desertion of soldiers and dragoons. On the basis of archival and published sources, the author analyses the dynamics of desertion and examines the quantitative data on runaway soldiers. The main reasons for soldiers’ escapes are also considered as the principal conditions for mass desertion.
16 мая 2022 года скончалась Татьяна Алексеевна Шрадер, кандидат исторических наук, человек, внесший большой вклад в скандинавистику, в изучение истории культурных и торговых связей между Россией и Скандинавскими странами, в дело укрепления дружбы между нашими народами. Особенно горько ощущать утрату автору этих строк, поскольку нашему знакомству более 65 лет.
Ускорившаяся к концу 1980-х гг. динамика перестроечных процессов в СССР с неизбежностью диктовала Финляндии необходимость оценки перспектив двусторонних отношений. Именно этому и посвящена монография Ю.-М. Ритванена1, название которой — «Крошащийся краеугольный камень» — не вполне точно передает её содержание, поскольку отражает не столько слаженную «работу в камнедробилке» двух сторон процесса, а в основном только одной, тогда как вторая в силу дряхления и безволия часто оставалась вялой, пассивной (хотя иногда и провоцирующей)