Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05801008
Nathaniel Knight
Epistemological questions concerning the reliability of historical knowledge and the establishment of truth, which we continue to confront today, were an urgent concern for Nikolai Nadezhdin in the aftermath of his arrest in 1836 resulting from his publication of Petr Chaadaev’s Philosophical Letter. In the months following his arrest he published a trio of articles, at least partially written while in confinement, which address the problem of historical knowledge and seek to expand the range of sources available to historians. This article traces the outlines of Nadezhdin’s argument particularly with regard to historical methodology and the reliability of sources. In seeking to incorporate new sources of historical knowledge, Nadezhdin set out for the first time key principles that would later inform his influential views on the methods and goals of ethnography as a scholarly field.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05801012
Ineta Lipša
{"title":"Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg , by Olga Petri","authors":"Ineta Lipša","doi":"10.30965/22102396-05801012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/22102396-05801012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35067,"journal":{"name":"Canadian-American Slavic Studies","volume":"37 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138593497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05801014
S. Riegg
{"title":"Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic , by Catherine Gibson","authors":"S. Riegg","doi":"10.30965/22102396-05801014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/22102396-05801014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35067,"journal":{"name":"Canadian-American Slavic Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138591124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05801007
Brian Davies
During the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 the advance of G.A. Rumiantsev’s First Army after its great victories at Riabaia Mogila, Larga, and Kagul was slowed by several factors, including the lack of adequate maps of southern Moldavia and Wallachia and the Turkish fortress line along the Danube. This problem was finally addressed by Lt General Friedrich Wilhelm von Bauer (1731–1783), a talented engineer in Russian service, a hero of the Riabaia Mogila and Larga battles, and author of a project to organize a Russian General Staff along Prussian lines. Bauer’s surveying work facilitated the Russians’ successful drive across the Danube in 1773 and this surveying work informed the remarkably detailed map of Moldavia he published in 1775 and 1781. The data he gathered for a similar map of Wallachia was published in his Mémoires historiques et géographiques sur la Valachie, avec un prospectus d’un Atlas géographique et militaire de la derniére guerre entre la Russie et la Porte Ottomanne (1778). Bauer’s work as a geographer and cartographer contributed to European knowledge of the geography and chorography of the Danubian region and illustrated the increasing impact of technicalism upon Russian military development in the eighteenth century.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05801005
Archie Brown
Desnitskii was the leading explicator in Catherine II’s Russia of British thought, especially that of the Scottish Enlightenment, and of British institutions, an influential teacher, and a socially engaged intellectual. The author, in earlier work, showed that Chapter 22 of Catherine’s Nakaz was directly influenced by Desnitskii and, indirectly, by the Moscow University Law professor’s esteemed Glasgow teacher, Adam Smith. This new article draws on digitized archival sources to cast additional light on the Scottish education of Desnitskii and his colleague Ivan Tret’iakov – on the professors with whom they interacted, the lectures they attended, and the books they read. Desnitskii was profoundly influenced by Smith and by Law Professor John Millar, and well acquainted with the inventor James Watt whom he urged Catherine to invite to Russia. In his extensive reform proposals to the Empress, Desnitskii especially championed the raznochintsy, seeking a role for them in the governing of Russia.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05801002
Donald Ostrowski
{"title":"Shakespeare, Elizabeth and Ivan; The Role of English-Russian Relations in Love’s Labours Lost , by Rima Greenhill","authors":"Donald Ostrowski","doi":"10.30965/22102396-05801002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/22102396-05801002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35067,"journal":{"name":"Canadian-American Slavic Studies","volume":"20 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138591472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05801003
Catherine Evtuhov
{"title":"Laboratoriia poniatii: perevod i iazyki politiki v Rossii XVIII veka , by Pol’skoi S.V. and V.S. Rzheutskii (eds.)","authors":"Catherine Evtuhov","doi":"10.30965/22102396-05801003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/22102396-05801003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35067,"journal":{"name":"Canadian-American Slavic Studies","volume":"43 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138593929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05801001
Anastasiia Strakhova
{"title":"A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness , by Marina Mogilner","authors":"Anastasiia Strakhova","doi":"10.30965/22102396-05801001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/22102396-05801001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35067,"journal":{"name":"Canadian-American Slavic Studies","volume":"11 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138590112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05801006
Peter B. Brown
Customarily, studies of Early Modern Russia stress agency emanating from below or from policy-makers at the top. This investigation chooses a middle path by examining the contributions of low-ranking administrative workers to homogenizing records-keeping through the creation of surnames. This was no easy task as these government personnel, with or without central direction, had to contrive criteria to formulate surname-creation. Surnames derived from occupations, physical characteristics, and perceived personality traits were one solution but so was topography and ethnicity. This study, using anthroponymy (the study of names) and hydronymy (the study of naming bodies of water) will portray how government workers in the field were able to organize local populations for the fisc through formulating surnames. This inquiry selects the Uralic-speaking populations of Northern Russia and Northwestern Siberia as its focus. The activities described unveil how local officials, whose identities remain unknown in larger thematic and national studies, were significant contributors to realm- and state-building through their unobtrusive policy-making via surname creation.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05801010
Yulia Mikhailova
This paper examines Rus’ chronicles’ information about female political participation. Frequent omission of women’s given names in the chronicles is often interpreted as evidence that Rus princesses were less politically significant than Western and Byzantine elite women. An analysis of East Slavonic name usage offered below challenges this interpretation. The paper argues that the scarcity of information about women in the extant sources does not reflect the realities of pre-Mongol Rus, and that elite women in Rus were no less politically active than their counterparts in the rest of Europe.
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