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(2024)Noah and Japheth in the oratorical prose of Feofan Prokopovich and Stefan Yavorsky. This article focuses on the functioning of the names Noah and Japheth in the oratorical prose of the main preachers of the Petrine era — ...
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(2024)Unfamiliar Acquaintances: What Else Can Dictionaries Tell Us? Vocabulary is considered to be first and foremost a linguistic and pedagogical field: it teaches readers to master the lexical units of their own or a foreign ...
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(2024)Sumarokov's “Monstrous” Variants: Remarks on the History of Reading, Education and Translation in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Sumarokov’s translation practice, throughout his career, reveals a tendency towards "monstrous" ...
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Chapter Лексические омонимы и квазиомонимы (équivoques) в Грамматике французской и русской 1730 года(2024)Lexical Homonyms and Quasi-Homonyms (“équivoques”) in the Grammar of French and Russian of 1730. The article analyzes Russian homonyms and quasi-homonyms with a French translation from the section “Équivoques” of Grammaire ...
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(2024)Thomas Consett's Latin Translation of M. Smotritsky's Grammar (1648): The History of a Translation. The following article presents the Latin translation of M. Smotrytsky’s grammar (as printed 1648) by Thomas Consett. ...
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(2024)On the Problem of Church Slavonic Writing in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16–18th Centuries: Religious and Didactic Editions from Two Podlasie Printing Houses. The boundary of Eastern and Western Christianity ...
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(2024)Derzhavin and the Aesopian Tradition in the Eighteenth Century. The literary tradition of the fable genre emerged and developed in the 18th century, starting from A. Kantemir, through the formal experiments of Trediakovskij ...
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(2024)Call it What You See: Karion Istomin’s Primer as an Educational Text on the Boundary of Epochs. The article is devoted to Karion Istomin’s illustrated primer. The first part of the article presents an historiographical ...
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(2024)Holberg's Description of the Battle of Gemauerthof (On the Question of the Russian Sources of his Introduction to the History of the Most Notable European Countries). This article suggests a Russian source for an episode ...
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(2024)In 1708 Peter the Great unveiled his new so-called “civil” orthography with great fanfare and ambition, and commanded that it immediately become the standard script for non-liturgical publications. This essay explores the ...
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(2024)The Polish Episode in the Biography of Johann Werner Paus. The research inspiration for this article is Johann Werner Paus' entry in his travel journal of his trip from Saxony to Russia in 1701. Paus wrote that he received ...
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(2024)This article demonstrates how Karion Istomin’s Book of Understanding Intellectual Vision and Bodily Activity in God’s Wisdom (1683), the panegyric offered to Petr Alekseevič for his eleventh name-day, exemplifies an ongoing ...
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(2024)The First German Grammar printed for Russians (Berlin, 1713) and its Geographical Names from Prussia Identifying some unexpected in the text geographical names from Prussia, the article discusses the possibility that the ...
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(2024)Petrine epoch is often seen as both rapidly adopting Western values and revolutionary regarding the antecedent Russian cultural tradition, although still strongly depending upon it. Manuductio ad linguam Germanicam, written ...
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(2024)“On the difference between words that can’t be equated”: Reflection on the Word in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy. The article is devoted to the problem of linguistic reflection aimed at maintaining the correctness of the ...
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(2024)Simeon Polotsky's A Garden of Many Flowers as a Mnemonic and Homiletic Manual. The study attempts to investigate Simeon’s Polotskij poetic encyclopedia Vertograd mnogotsvetnyj (A Garden of Many Flowers) as a kind of homiletic ...
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(2024)Giorgio Dandolo’s Russian, Latin, Italian & French Dictionary of 1747. The article describes a handwritten book from the collections of the scientific library of Kazan Federal University, containing the first Russian-Italian ...
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(2025)The conflict between copyright laws and the need to document and disseminate human rights violations and crimes against humanity becomes central, as access to crucial materials for historical memory risks being restricted ...
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(2025)The photographic heritage of the CDEC Foundation is crucial for preserving historical memory, especially for Jewish history in Italy and the Holocaust. The management of this heritage has evolved significantly, from an ...
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(2025)The study examines the state control over images of public cultural heritage, unique in Europe for its strictness, which creates a form of “pseudo-copyright” limiting creative use, even for public domain works. The protection ...
