dc.contributor.author

value: Ivanov, A. E.

value: Gilenko, E. V.

value: Batueva, E. M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ivanov A. E., Gilenko E. V., Batueva E. M. 2021. On some approaches to increasing performance and cost-efficiency of Russian regional AIDS centers. Russian Management Journal 19 (1): 35–66.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper discusses the problem of counteracting the spread of HIV/AIDS in Russia. This
disease is the main cause of death for the Russian working-age population, which annually
takes tens of thousands of lives and hinders the achievement of such goals of the Russian state
policy as preserving the health and well-being of Russian people. The principal elements of
the system of HIV/AIDS counteraction are regional AIDS prevention and control centers (AIDS
centers), whose improvement of performance is required by the “State Strategy for Counteracting
the Spread of the HIV Infection in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2020 and beyond”.
In this paper, based on the proposed modification of M. Porter’s care delivery value chain
model, we demonstrate the ways of enhancing the performance of a regional AIDS center by
increasing the value of its services and reducing the costs of their provision due to strengthening
the channels of transferring information about HIV/AIDS to the population, improving the
accuracy of predicting new registered cases of HIV/AIDS, as well as perfecting public procurement
of the necessary medicines and consumables. Our calculations are based on real data
of the Perm AIDS center. As a result, relevant recommendations are formulated for the leadership
of the Perm AIDS center on the ways of interaction with the population, prediction of new
HIV/AIDS cases, and conducting public procurement of drugs and consumables for the needs
of the center.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The research was conducted with financial support from St. Petersburg State University (project No. 77100624)

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: regional AIDS centers

value: care delivery value chain

value: public procurement

value: channels of communication with population

value: prediction of new HIV cases

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Dergunova, I. V.

value: Dolgopyatova, T. G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Dergunova I. V., Dolgopyatova T. G. 2021. The board work experience diversity and the performance of Russian companies. Russian Management Journal 19 (1): 5–34.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The goal of this study is to empirically assess the influence of the board of directors’ work
experience diversity on the performance of Russian non-public companies. The board work
experience diversity is measured by the diversity index proposed by the authors, as well as by
the number of work experience types and categories. Russian boards are characterized by a
low level of diversity, directors with work experience in the same company prevail, on the second
and third places are the experience in other enterprises in the industry and the experience
in the group of related companies. It has been established that there are no prevailing combinations
of experience in industrial companies. A positive influence of the directors’ work experience
diversity on the increase of companies’ return on capital from 2017 to 2019 was found.
The analysis is based on the data from a 2018 survey of industrial managers conducted by the
Higher School of Economics.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article was prepared as a part of the work on the topics of the HSE Basic Research Program “Effectiveness
factors and directions of competitiveness improvement for Russian manufacturing enterprises under current
conditions” (2020) and “The competitiveness of Russian industry: factors stimulating the activity and growth
of enterprises” (2021). The article is based on the materials of the report presented at the 7th International
GSOM Emerging Markets Conference 2020.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Russian Management Journal;Volume 19; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: experience diversity

value: firm performance

value: corporate governance

value: the board of directors

format: Adobe PDF


title: Cyborg ontics

dc.contributor.author

value: Sokolov, Boris G.

value: Morina, Larisa P.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sokolov B. G., Morina L. P. Cyborg ontics. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 136–153.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the analysis of ontic dispositions of modern reality. The modern reality
is the post-, smart-, cyber-reality of the modern semi-artificial semi-living post-human cyborg.
Imperatives that have been funding the cultural and ontic space of man for thousands of
years, such as pain, fear, desire for pleasure, death, etc., are no longer in the zone of the sacred
or metaphysical, but rather in the sphere of planned and pragmatically oriented technology.
Modern cluster and virtual-based construction of the living world format the world around
according to the patterns of information space, in which both time and space, technological
or production chains, social ties, models of interaction and existence are formed in a smart
and post-temporal and spatial paradigm that deconstructs the classical models of time, space
and cultural environment as a whole. In the modern cultural environment and, accordingly,
in the ontic space of the post-human cyborg, the logic of building a medial virtual-digital reality
is incorporated. The article provides a cultural-philosophical and hermeneutical analysis
of the main provisions of the new ontic space of modernity (logic of “logistics”, binarism,
“logic of order”). It is shown that in the virtual and digital life world there is a transformation
of personal parameters: structures of thinking, patterns of behavior, as well as ways of selfidentification.
To describe this phenomenon, the term “digital identity” is proposed, and its
characteristics are given: foundation by virtual-digital means, dematerialization of relationships
and actions, prosthetics by network organs, subjective non-autonomy and obedience to
orders. The authors draw conclusions about the nature and essential features of the posthuman
cyborg as a natural product of the new virtual digital reality.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research,
project no. 18-011-00977 “Cluster Culture: Research Strategies and Philosophical Analytics”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 1

value: virtual-digital reality

value: cluster

value: post-human

value: cyborg

value: digital identity

dc.title

value: Cyborg ontics


dc.contributor.author

value: Korotkov, Dmitry M.

value: Tsypina, Lada V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Korotkov D. M., Tsypina L. V. Michel Foucault’s experience, limit-experience and spirituality problem. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 64–76.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the historical and philosophical reconstruction of the concepts of experience
and limit experience in the context of the problem of spirituality in Michel Foucault’s
philosophy. The authors proceed from the thesis that in the postmodern space the concept
of philosophical experience dramatically changes its traditional meaning. Turning to liminal
philosophy, associated with the figures of Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot, the authors
includes Foucault in this series in connection with the transformation of the concept of spirituality
in the course of the intellectual evolution of the French thinker. In Foucault’s legacy, it
is possible to distinguish several meanings of “experience”, each connected with a special type
of “spirituality”, atheistic during the formation of Foucault’s philosophical position, political
during its heyday and aesthetic during its decline. Regardless of these qualitative differences,
spirituality in Foucault’s project remains an unattainable goal. The authors associate this feature
of the Foucauldian interpretation of spirituality with the experience of desubjectivization.
The “limit-experience” is understood by Foucault in two ways: how to set boundaries and
how to overcome them. It is necessarily preceded by the experience of assembling the subject
by the field of one or another truth. Between these two types of experience, Foucault places
“experience-correlation”, which connects areas of knowledge, types of normativity, and forms
of subjectivity. If “limit-experience” is established in the process of fleeing from the chaos of
everyday life, then the “experience-correlation”, examined from the standpoint of Foucault’s
archeology and genealogy, forces one to unravel the subject’s historical structures. Thanks to
the practices of changing, dispersing, and splitting the subject, everyday life acquires once-lost
meanings. However, spirituality remains an unattainable excess provoking a person to experience
in which he himself will inevitably be absent.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research,
project no. 19-011-00826 “The politicization and depoliticization of philosophy in the context of biopolitics:
a comparative analysis of polemic discourses”.

dc.subject

value: Foucault

value: Blanchot

value: Bataille

value: liminal philosophy

value: spirituality

value: experience

value: limit-experience

value: subject

value: history

value: desubjectivation

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: She, Xiaoling

value: Wen, Jian

dc.identifier.citation

value: She Xiaoling, Wen Jian. Modern Chinese Fiction (1919–1949) in Russia: The Early Translation, Publication and Research. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 4–18.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article provides an overview of early Russian translations and publication of modern Chinese
fiction (1919-1949). The approaches to the early study of the works of prominent representatives
of modern Chinese literature are examined and the reasons why Soviet society
is interested in their heritage are identified. Since the 1920s, well-known works of renowned
Chinese writers have been frequently translated into Russian mainly by young sinologists.
Most of them had been to China and had developed a direct understanding of the development
of modern Chinese literature, translating primarily from Chinese and using English
translations for various reasons occasionally. The Chinese and Soviet cultural activists also
played an important role in the spread of modern Chinese prose in the USSR. At the same
time, a serious study of modern Chinese prose began, and until the end of the 1940s was actually
at the initial stage, being mainly of a socio-political nature as the study was determined by
the state of the ideological atmosphere in Soviet society. Early researchers paid the most attention
to the works of Lu Xun, referring to his ideological outlook and artistic merits. Overall,
the early translation and study of modern Chinese fiction revealed to the Soviet reader the
ideological and social aspects of the works of modern novelists belonging to the left flank of Chinese literature, and laid the foundation for more extensive and in-depth research of modern
Chinese literature during the next phase.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This work was supported by the Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of the Ministry of
Education of China № 19YJC751038 “Modern Chinese Literature in the Russian World: Translation and
Acceptance”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 13; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: modern Chinese fiction

value: Soviet sinology

value: early Russian translations

value: research


dc.contributor.author

value: Antonov, Alexey V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Antonov A. V. V. I. Lenin and empiriocritics about matter. Is the discussion over? Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 16–29.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The problem of matter in philosophy has become relevant again. Nowadays, it does not resemble
the crisis of the early XX century when a so-called “dissolution” of the matter in mathematical
formulae was discussed. However, the emergence of term “dark matter” in physics,
which is not clear how it differs from the well-known “light matter”, is obscure and raises the
question of the “matter doubling”. This makes one remember that the current definition of
matter in philosophy was developed as a result of a discussion concerning the ways of its existence
between Vladimir Lenin and empiriocritics. Thus, all modern attempts to define matter
cannot exist without a new view on the old discussion presented in the book “Materialism and
Empirio-Criticism” by Lenin. The author of the article pays attention to the fact that during
the discussion of “the main question of philosophy” a century ago, concerning the attitude of
matter towards consciousness, it was considered by Lenin only in two aspects, specifically, ontological
and gnoseological. At the same time, the principle of the identity of dialectics, logic
and theory of knowledge proposed by him demands consideration of the arguments adduced
in the discussion as well as the logical aspect. According to the author, the consecutive consideration
of the main question of philosophy by means of logic, should result in a correction of
Lenin’s definition of matter.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Lenin

value: empiriocritics

value: main question of philosophy

value: matter

value: dialectics

value: logic


dc.contributor.author

value: Korolkov, Alexander A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Korolkov A. A. Hegel as an atheist and intuitivist in the interpretations of Alexandre Kozhève and Nikolay Lossky. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 4–15.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The Russian exiled philosophers Alexander Kozhevnikov (Alexandre Kozhève) and Nikolay
Lossky, who had to leave Russia in the 1920s, gave paradoxical interpretations of Hegel’s work:
Kozhève treated Hegel as an atheist whereas Lossky interpreted him as an intuitivist. Both
philosophers have influenced the development of Western European philosophy and contemporary
understanding of Hegel’s texts. The history of Russian philosophy would be poorer
if we forget that Kozhevnikov acquired recognition as a French philosopher Kozhève only
at a mature age. A strong influence on Kozhève’s treatment of Christianity was exerted by
Vladimir Soloviev’s philosophy, to which he devoted his first dissertation under the guidance
of Karl Jaspers. His attention to the Christian understanding of love as an endless power
over the finite manifestations of spirit, which was expounded upon/revealed in his course of
lectures on Hegel, enjoyed great popularity in France and influenced the formation of eminent
philosophers. Hegel’s atheism in Kozhève’s interpretation is not a denial of religion, since
religion and philosophy have common interests applied to eternal themes; they differ only in
methods of the cognition of the Absolute. The logic of the anthropological interpretation of
Hegel led Kozhève to the rationalization of religion by elevating philosophy over it. Hegel’s
atheistic anthropology turned his study into a summary of religious evolution, with theology
eventually ousted by anthropology. Nikolay Lossky, who had written a book on intuitivism
before the revolution, in his creative work abroad extended his notion of intuitivism by calling
Hegel an extreme intuitivist. He based this conclusion on Hegel’s upholding of the principle
of the identity of thinking and being, that is following the logic of an object in cognition. The
possibility to eliminate the contradiction between knowledge and being, about which Hegel
wrote, is interpreted by Lossky as intuitivism and even empiricism.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: Spirit

value: atheism

value: religion

value: God

value: anthropology

value: intuitivism

value: Hegel

value: Vladimir Solovyev

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Volkova, Anna V.

value: Kulakova, Tatyana A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Volkova A. V., Kulakova T. A. Network, procedural and cognitive components of digital public governance implementation designs: Тhe experience of European countries. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 118–135.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The authors of the article aimed to study institutional designs for implementing digital public
governance in the context of the problem of state governance. It was revealed that digital designs
act as ways to ensure the implementation of the rules laid down in the system. They are
focused on the development of communication skills, on preventing or minimizing conflicts
in public policy, but do not exclude the risks of developing dysfunctions and serious contradictions.
The article presents the results of a comparative study of the digitalization policy of
European leaders in this area, Estonia and Germany, where there is a tendency to “slow down”
innovations: uneven implementation of digital technologies in business and public governance,
a wary attitude of citizens, a stable number of political and cultural attitudes and a focus
more on regulation rather than coordination in Internet management. Contradictions between
the network, procedural and cognitive components of digital public governance implementation
designs appear. The authors believe that the gap with practically implemented technologies
increases due to the existence of organizational and institutional barriers that need to
be overcome in various ways (process, cognitive, etc.). Organizational barriers can be removed
directly by state managers, while institutional barriers are the subject of policy initiatives. The
novelty of the study lies in the recognition of the mobilization effect of “coercive digitalization”.
In the context of the pandemic, this mobilization was based on stable (stereotypical)
interaction practices. According to the authors, as the forms of cooperation deepen, mutual
long-term obligations become the main requirement and the state should create incentives for
it. This is what prompts the demand for mutual responsibility of the digitalization “apostles”,
users and the state.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was conducted with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation, Project
no. 19-18-00210 “Political ontology of digitalization: a study of the institutional basis of digital formats of
state governability”.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: digitalization

value: institutional designs

value: public policy

value: civil participation

value: conflicts

value: coordination

value: “smart regulation”

value: ethics

value: trust

value: “coercive digitalization”


dc.contributor.author

value: Belov, Vladimir N.

value: Berdnikova, Aleksandra Yu.

value: Karagod, Yulia G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Belov V. N., Berdnikova A. Yu., Karagod Yu. G. Immanuel Kant and Herman Cohen’s philosophy of religion. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 30–40.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article analyzes the main characteristic features of the philosophy of religion of the founder
of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism Hermann Cohen. Special attention is paid to
Cohen’s criticism and reinterpretation of Kant’s “practical philosophy” from the point of view
of the philosophy of religion: Cohen supplements and expands Kant’s provisions on moral law
and moral duty, interpreting them as divine commandments. The authors emphasize the fundamental
importance for Cohen of the “internal similarity” between Kant’s ethical teaching
and the main provisions of Judaism. The sources of Kant’s own ideas about the Jewish tradition
are shown, which include the work of Moses Mendelssohn “Jerusalem” and the “Theologicalpolitical
treatise” by Baruch Spinoza. Cohen’s criticism of these works is analyzed an much
attention is paid to the consideration of Cohen’s attitude to Spinoza’s philosophical legacy in
general. The interpretation of the postulates of Judaism by Cohen (and their “inner kinship”
with Kant’s moral philosophy) in ethical, logical, and political contexts is presented. Cohen’s
understanding of such religious-philosophical and doctrinal phenomena as law, grace, Revelation,
teaching, the Torah, messianism, freedom, the Old Testament and the New Testament,
etc. is provided and analyzed. The main points of Cohen’s religious teaching as “ethical
monotheism” are considered; in particular, the authors analyze his understanding of the idea
of God as “the only one”, which is highlighted in the works of Paul Natorp. It is concluded that
Cohen’s philosophy of religion, which is based on the postulates of Judaism as well as Kant’s “practical philosophy”, could be characterized by the terms “ethical monotheism”, “universalism”
and “humanism”.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: This publication was supported by the RUDN University Strategic Academic Leadership Program.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: Hermann Cohen

value: Immanuel Kant

value: Baruch Spinoza

value: Neo-Kantianism

value: Marburg school

value: philosophy of religion

value: Judaism

value: Old Testament

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Bandejkina, Natalia N.

value: Kryukova, Tatyana V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bandejkina N. N., Kryukova T. V. On one approach to assessing the conflictological competence of a manager using the method of mathematical modeling. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 106–117.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article deals with the formulation of the problem of assessing conflictological competence
by means of mathematical modeling. An analysis of existing definitions of this concept is
provided. Conflictological competence as the most important feature of a manager’s professionalism
is a complex concept that assumes the presence of theoretical knowledge about
the possible ways to work with a conflict, a certain set of skills for their practical application
and the necessary personal and professional qualities for effective conflict management in
the interests of the organization. Conflictological competence of a leader can be defined as an
integral assessment of the degree of achievement of goals at the stages of conflict management:
the readiness of the leader to prevent conflict, conflict resolution and overcoming its negative
consequences. The content model of the conflict is considered as the basis of modeling.
To translate this model into mathematical language, the analitic hierarch process (AHP) by
Thomas L. Saaty, which has its own software Super Decisions, is used. As a result of the use of
AHP, the relative degree of interaction of elements in the hierarchy, the priorities of alternatives
and the optimal solution are determined. In the article on the example of conflict in an
organization, AHP is used to assess the conflictological competence of the leader. The proposed
analytical toolkit can be effectively utilized by experts, managers and decision makers
to assess conflictological competence.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: conflictological competence

value: conflict

value: conflict management

value: mathematical modeling

value: expert method

value: analitic hierarch process


dc.contributor.author

value: Zelinová, Zuzana

dc.identifier.citation

value: Zelinová Z. Plato’s Socrates and a new interpretation of the kosmos. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 53–63.

dc.description.abstract

value:
One of the most common problems encountered in present-day research into ancient natural
philosophy is the question of when the term kosmos (κόσμος) began to be used not only for
order, but also for the meaning of world order. This article attempts to argue that this new interpretation
of kosmos is connected with Socratic thought and asserts that the Socratic anthropological
turn can only be meaningfully discussed due to changes in the field of natural philosophy.
This anthropological turn is best expressed by Roman orator and philosopher Cicero
in his well-known work Tusculan Disputations. The article attempts to offer an interpretation
based on the belief that the collocation world order presumes a philosophical turn towards
a focus on humans and their internal world experiences. For the author’s interpretation, the
specific concept of koinonia (κοινωνία) as it is found first in Empedocles’ fragments and later
in Plato’s philosophy is important. The article consists of three parts: the first part deals with
several traditional meanings of kosmos (Homer, Hesiod, Thales, Anaximenes, Anaximander,
Heraclitus, Pythagoreans etc.), the second part with meanings that Socratic philosophy (especially
Plato, partly Xenophon) assigns to the term, and the final part attempts to argue that
it is explicitly Plato who first began using kosmos with the meaning of world or world order.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This article was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under contract
no. APVV-18-0103, Paradigmatic Changes in the Understanding of Universe and Man from Philosophical,
Theological, and Physical Perspectives.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.subject

value: Empedocles

value: Socrates

value: Plato

value: kosmos

value: cosmology


title: “I” and collective responsibility

dc.contributor.author

value: Bakeeva, Elena V.

value: Biricheva, Ekaterina V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bakeeva E. V., Biricheva E. V. “I” and collective responsibility. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 41–52.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article discusses the link of collective moral responsibility with “I” as an act of the realization
of subjectness. The authors provide and verify the thesis about the primacy of “I” to
any forms and cases of collective responsibility. The notion of “I” is reexamined taking into
account the critique of the subject undertaken in the so-called “post-metaphysical” (J. Habermas)
philosophy. The key point of this critique is the rejection of the understanding of “I” and
of the subject as unchanging metaphysical entities. In this situation, it is of paramount importance
to distinguish the dynamic core of “I”, which is free from any metaphysical connotation.
In addressing this issue, the authors build on the concept of “I” as a responsible act (deed) as
presented in works of Mikhail Bakhtin. According to this concept, “I” does not precede the
act but is born in the actual responsible act in the face of an Other. This action turns out to be
devoid of content here and is interpreted as an act of accepting responsibility in the face of the
Absolute instance. Such an interpretation of “I” makes it possible to retain the possibility of a
responsible act within the growing anonymity of a contemporary social being and to substantiate
manifestations of collective responsibility in collective actions. The final part of the article
lists the basic features that characterize the link of “I” as an act and collective responsibility.
Of these features, the main one is associated with the impossibility of “external” vesting of
responsibility to anyone due to his/her belonging to a certain community. Collective responsibility
may be recognized only in the “inner” dimension of a personal act. Hence follows a
fundamental asymmetry that characterizes the phenomenon of responsibility in general and
collective responsibility in particular.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: “I”

value: collective responsibility

value: act

value: deed

value: Immanuel Kant

value: Mikhail Bakhtin

dc.title

value: “I” and collective responsibility

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Bokov, Timofey A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bokov T. A. One Problem in the Study of the Houthi Movement (Three Сliches of anti- Houthi Propaganda). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 74–90.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article identifies and analyzes three main accusations leveled in the 2000s by the Yemeni
Government against Houthis: a desire to restore the Imamate, gaining support from Iran and
conversion to Twelver Shiism. It is shown that these accusations are incorrect and are consequences
of the Yemeni authorities’ discrimination policy against practicing Zaydis and especially
sayyids — Zaydi religious “aristocracy”. It is demonstrated that reestablishment of theocratic
rule was not part of the Houthi political agenda since a majority of Yemenis were against
it; the goal of allegations about Houthi connections with Tehran, made by the Yemeni political
establishment, was to secure additional financial aid from Washington and Riyadh; Al-Houthi
was not a Twelver Shiite and was critical of the main ideas of this denomination. The author of
the article suggests that many Yemenis and several Russian and Western scholars believed the
accusations due to the dominance of anti-Zaydi sentiment in the Yemeni information space
and the fact that these accusations complement each other in a quasi-logical way: to reestablish
the Imamate, Houthis need support, which can be gained from Iran, while conversion to
Twelver Shiism guarantees such support.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 13; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Yemen

value: zaydism

value: imamate

value: houthis

value: Husayn al-Houthi

value: jarudism


dc.contributor.author

value: Berman, Andrew G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Berman A. G. Orthodox samizdat in Chuvashia in the 1960s–1980s. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 162–175.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the phenomenon of Orthodox church samizdat in the second half of the
20th century. The term Orthodox samizdat used in this article refers to a set of texts reproduced
in an artisanal way and distributed in church goers circle without the sanction of the church or
secular authorities. In the conditions of Soviet reality, the church circles were a deep periphery
of public life and was formed from the marginalized or those pushed out by the Soviet authorities
to the social margins. The specific position of church people in the USSR determined the
repertoire of samizdat texts and their ideological orientation. The source base for this article
was formed by a large library of church samizdat left after the death of Elizabeth Feodorovna
Zakharova, an active parishioner of the Vvedensky Cathedral in Cheboksary. Zakharova was a
typical representative of the church goers. The article reviews the genres of works that were available
as the samizdat in Zakharova’s library: liturgical texts, artisan copies of pre-revolutionary publications, spiritual verses, thematic collections, folklore, apologetic literature, eschatological
and conspiralogical texts, etc. One of the peculiarities of the existence of Orthodox samizdat in
Chuvashia was that many texts circulated in translations into the Chuvash language. Among
the features of Cheboksary samizdat is the replication of the prosaic translation of John Milton’s
poems “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise Regained”. Church samizdat performed a number of important
functions in church circles: it solved the problem of demand for liturgical and doctrinal
literature in deficit conditions, shared uncensored texts, rallied church people and could be a
source of additional income. In general, church samizdat was an important part of the culture
of the church circle during the Soviet era. The spelling and punctuation features of the original
unpublished sources are preserved in the article when cited.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 1

value: samizdat

value: Orthodoxy

value: church goers circle

value: religious folklore

value: USSR

value: Chuvashia

value: Cheboksary

value: history

value: 20th century


dc.contributor.author

value: Boronoev, Аsаlhаn O.

value: Thakahov, Valeriy Kh.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Boronoev A. O., Thakahov V. Kh. Concept of space of places in social sciences. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 91–105.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article examines the concept of space of places — a theoretical framework in social sciences
and the humanities for analyzing phenomenon of places and social practices used to
produce and reproduce it. The purpose of the presented research consists of the following:
1) to reveal the main theoretical and methodological approaches to the construction of the
concept of space of places; 2) present an interdisciplinary concept for describing and explaining
the social foundations of the space of places; 3) describe the significant social practices
of the reproduction of the space of places and socio-cultural integration. The article shows
that key approaches to studying space of places are represented by quite different research
perspectives such as neo-Marxism (H. Lefebvre, M. Castells), phenomenology (A. Schutz,
G. Bachelard), P. Nora’s theory of places of memory and A. Assman’s theory of cultural memory
and identity, M. Augé’s anthropology of non-places and humanist geography (Y.-F. Tuan,
Ed. Relph, T. Cresswell, D. Seamon). The article discusses the social, intellectual, ontological
and epistemological bases of the concept of space of places. In a narrow sense, the unifying
thesis of the research strategies is centered around the assumption of the corpus of ideas built
upon the assertion that place matters. Broadly defined, the space of places is one of the fundamental
foundations of the living world of individuals and groups. Space of places includes
the world of everyday life (the perceived) and the world of symbolic life (the experienced).
These living worlds comprise spatial practice and spaces of representation (following Henri
Lefebvre’s logic). Abstract space, a prevailing form of the era of neo-liberal capitalism, opposes
them and imposes its own models and production / consumption logics. Hence, a value-based
contradiction between two kinds of space arises. Space of places is a historically grounded way
of organizing our common experience. It is a world of meanings and cultural codes united by
history and identity (following the logic of Manuel Castells). The article analyzes in detail the
phenomenological tradition of place; the relationship between place, memory and identity;
the theoretical contribution of humanist geography to the concept of space of places.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research,
project no. 20-011-00742 “The phenomenon of a small homeland and its place in the construction of sociocultural
symbols and values of civic identity”).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: space of places

value: Henri Lefebvre

value: absolute space

value: abstract space

value: Manuel Castells

value: phenomenology of place

value: home

value: place geography

value: identity

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Tonoyan, Larisa G.

value: Semikolennykh, Maria V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Tonoyan L. G., Semikolennykh M. V. The first Russian textbook on logic: Historical, logical, and textual analysis. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 77–90.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to one of the first Russian textbooks on logic written by Makariy Petrovich
(1733–1765), a professor of the Moscow Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy. The analysis of this
work demonstrates that it was not a simple translation of some Latin textbook (such translations
were published later, after the foundation of the Moscow University). The textbook is a
result of Makariy’s (and his predecessors) years of teaching logic in Russian religious schools.
It is, to some extent, an original work. The article explores the peculiarities of Makariy’s rendition
of logic. For example, the chapters on syllogistics illustrate that Makariy was somewhat
innovative: he replaced Latin names for the modes of the categorical syllogism with made-up
Cyrillic words (while keeping to the rules defining the choice of Latin letters). It seems that he
strived to make logic more practical and as a result, wrote the textbook entirely in Cyrillic. The
article considers the historical context of Makariy’s work and its place in the history of logic.
The authors make several assumptions as to why Mikhail Lomonosov did not publish the first
Russian textbook on logic and also why Makariy’s book was not printed. The authors’ comparative
study of XVIII century textbooks on logic makes it possible to specify some probable
sources for “Logic”, both Latin and Greek. In addition, Makariy’s approach to the translation
of logical terms (some of them he translated into Russian while others were transliterated)
is considered. After thorough examination of all three surviving manuscripts of Makariy’s
“Logic”, the authors conclude that this textbook is worthy of proper publication.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research has been performed within the grant of Russian Science Foundation no. 18-78-10051
«The Byzantine Roots of the Russian Logical Tradition».

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: logic

value: rhetoric

value: history of logic in Russia

value: Mikhail Lomonosov

value: Makariy Petrovich

value: Russian logical text

value: syllogistics


dc.contributor.author

value: Wu, Airong

value: Liu, Kun

dc.identifier.citation

value: Wu Airong, Liu Kun. Difficulties in Translating Concepts that Denote Objects and Phenomena of Material Culture of Central Asian People, and the Principles of Overcoming Them (on the Example of the Translation of V. G. Yan’s Novel “Genghis Khan” from Russian into Chinese). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 19–31.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The concept of national-oriented translation as a part of the cultural translation theory becomes
most relevant during the translation of fiction books into languages where the native
speakers’ cultural context is far from what is narrated in the text of the translated work.
The problem may be even more complicated if the language of the translated work is not the
language of the described culture. This problem is exemplified by the Chinese translation of
V. G. Yan’s novel “Genghis Khan”, which was written in Russian and depicts the complexity
of socio-cultural processes in Central Asia during the 13th century. The description of the
most important elements of material culture presented in the novel reflects the diversity of the
material culture of the peoples of Central Asia. The article analyzes typical errors and inaccuracies
in the translation of concepts that denote objects of material culture of Central Asian
peoples. The authors attempt to identify the causes of translation errors: translator errors that
arose due to differences in the semantic systems of the Russian and Chinese languages, as
well as errors related to cultural differences between the peoples of Central Asia and China.
The methodological basis of the research is Yuri Naida’s concept of dynamic equivalence as
well as the principles of functional equivalence of the original and translated texts proposed
by L. K. Latyshev. The source of material for the comparative analysis is the translation of the
novel “Genghis Khan” into Chinese by Chen Hongfa. As a result of the analysis of errors and
generalization of theoretical provisions, the authors propose three translation principles in
order to avoid errors in the translation of names for objects of material culture, namely: the
principles of “Double definition”, “Semantic correspondence” and “Addition of translation by
explaining the connotative meaning of the word”. Adherence to these principles will allow
translators to bring the translated text closer to the original text in both functional and communicative
as well as semantic and structural ways.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Foundation project: Shanghai project of philosophy and social Sciences: study of language education
in Central Asia within the framework of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, 2018BYY001.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 13; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: translation errors

value: translation principles


dc.contributor.author

value: Suvorov, Mikhail N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Suvorov M. N. The Colony of Aden in Post-Colonial Yemeni Novel. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 32–50.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In many Arab countries, where colonial rule was replaced by local authoritarian, often corrupt,
regimes, popular discontent with the living conditions under the new government has
produced a kind of nostalgia for the colonial past. This nostalgia is well observed in today’s
Aden (Republic of Yemen), which was a British colony from 1839 until 1967. In the middle
of the 20th century, Aden was the most prosperous city on the Arabian Peninsula and one of
the busiest seaports in the world. This article examines how this nostalgia is manifested in
modern Yemeni literature, namely in three novels: Three Midnighters (1993) by Sa‘id Awlaqi,
Adeni Incense (2014) by Ali al-Muqri, and Steamer Point (2015) by Ahmad Zayn (Zein). In
the novel Three Midnighters, which takes place in the late 1980s, the allegory of Aden Colony
is a cultural club, whose activities are remembered by the characters. The main characteristics
of that club were its openness to all people, its atmosphere of freedom of thought, freedom of
expression, mutual respect of its members, prosperity, love, and fun. In Adeni Incense, Aden
Colony also resembles a wonderful club. The members of this club, that is, the characters of
the novel, live in harmony, love, and prosperity — until evil external forces begin to destroy
this club. The lack of realistic details in the depiction of the city and its inhabitants allows the
reader to perceive the novel as allegorical rather than realistic. In Steamer Point, Aden Colony
does not appear as a wonderful club, since the novel is written in a completely realistic manner.
Nevertheless, Aden in the novel has two important features: the economic prosperity and
peaceful coexistence of representatives of different cultures and different identities. It is these
features of the city that one of the main characters, a sincere admirer of the British, is afraid to
lose as a result of the British withdrawal.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Arab novel

value: Yemen

value: Aden

value: Said Awlaqi

value: Ali al-Muqri

value: Ahmad Zein

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Mtasigazya, Paul

dc.identifier.citation

value: Mtasigazya P. Local Government Staff Performance Management in Tanzania: Experience of Open Performance Review and Appraisal System (OPRAS) in Kinondoni Municipal Council. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 51–73.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents a study that examined the effectiveness of the implementation of OPRAS
on local government staff performance in the Kinondoni Municipal Council (KMC) in Tanzania.
The study adopted a case study research design and used questionnaires, in-depth interview
and documentary review in data collection. The Sample size was 100 respondents
selected through purposive sampling and the content analysis and cross tabulation methods
were used in data analysis. The major study findings indicate that there was a weak implementation
of OPRAS because there was no communication of the needs for OPRAS to employees,
provision of OPRAS related training, and motivations to public servants were inadequately
addressed. Furthermore, in local government authorities (LGAs) particularly KMC, there has
been very little concern, demonstrated by inadequate funds and mechanisms put in place that
ensure its implementation is effective and sustainable. In regard to this, the findings demonstrated
an absence of viable efforts in terms of plans and strategies set to establish an effective
and sustainable implementation of OPRAS in the KMC. The financial constrains caused by
the absence of a specific budget for OPRAS implementation, laxity of the management in
monitoring the implementation of OPRAS in the KMC, as well as inadequate funds disbursed
by the central government to KMC are the major factors restraining the effective implementation
of OPRAS in the KMC. It is therefore concluded that there is a need for the government
to strictly adhere to the processes required in the implementation of OPRAS, such as communicating the need for OPRAS to public servants and setting adequate funds for OPRAS to
be conducted.

dc.subject

value: open performance review

value: performance appraisal

value: local government staff performance

value: management


dc.contributor.author

value: Saeidi, Massoud Toossi

value: Hossini, Seyed Hassan

dc.identifier.citation

value: Massoud Toossi Saeidi, Seyed Hassan Hossini. Religious language as natural-sacred language. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 176–190.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article offers a different interpretation of Antony Flew’s views about the problem of religious
language. This interpretation shows that Flew’s ideas can be perceived as a critique
of belief in the content of religious statements, rather than a critique of their meaning. By
interpreting his thought in this way, it is clear that Flew’s approach is not new and we can find
similar ideas in the history of theological thought. In connection with this interpretation, the
authors analyze prevalent theories related to this problem in order to identify the principal
doctrines used to find a new solution. In this regard, the new potential solution is assessed in
order to complete the approach previously undertaken. The main idea is to merge two distinct
and also contrasting concepts found in the literature: “natural” and “sacred”. Such a merging
can begin with the concept of natural language as a theory drawn from the literature on the
philosophy of language. According to the principles of the philosophy of language adopted by
this article, religious language is rooted in natural language, but it is distinct from other forms
in that it is the customized use of natural language by the saints of a particular religion. By
offering an explanation to natural language, it is possible to view saints as the ones who used
natural language in order to talk about the divine sacred realm. Similar to previous thinkers
who spoke about religious language, the authors offer their own analogy. This analogy is compared
and contrasted with previous ones to reveal the advantages of the proposed new view of
the problem of religious language. The authors propose a new type of natural language with
the special characteristic of being sacred.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The research was made possible due to a grant from the Iran National Science Foundation (INSF).

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 1

value: religious language

value: sacred knowledge

value: natural language

value: saints

value: natural-sacred language


dc.contributor.author

value: Błocian, Ilona

dc.identifier.citation

value: Błocian I. Archetype and matrix image (potential forms of an image). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 154–161.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the analysis of potential forms of the image in culture and the development
of the Jungian concept of an archetype in Wunenburger, Bachelard, Durand and modern
cultural studies. The notion of archetype in Carl Jung’s concept is related to the distinction between
the archetype in itself, noumenon and archetype image conceived as a phenomenal manifestation
of archetypal forms in the space-time, historical and social reality. This distinction has
a Kantian lineage, which Jung was clearly conscious of. He provides a reference to the conception
of Kant, calling it “a school of philosophical criticism” several times in his writings. In the studies
of Jung’s concept, his approach to transcendentalism (Z. Rosińska) is at times present, and a
certain type of its specific, evolutionary interpretation is used. The archetype, being a “thing in
itself”, determines the appearance of phenomenal forms in the space-time, historical and social
world, while remaining outside the direct entanglement and referring to the evolutionally active
sphere of the unconscious as an anthropological datum. The archetypal image expresses
the permanent approximation of manifestation of the semantic core of the archetype itself. The
notion of an archetype has evolved in contemporary understandings and conceptions; it was
conceived as a psychological expression of the evolutionary pattern of behavior, as an affectiverepresentative
node and ante rem of an idea, as a hermeneutic pattern of meaning or as a kind of
matrix image. The archetype can be understood in connection with anthropological structures
or with a cultural image; one way of comprehension does not exclude the other.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: archetype

value: matrix image

value: primordial image

value: anthropological structures

value: epithetic archetypes

value: substantial archetypes

value: Jung

value: Bachelard

value: Durand

value: Wunenburger

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Bulanin, Dmitrii M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bulanin D. M. On the way to Fedor Karpov’s archive: Traces in the Chudov monastery? Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 18–36.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Only a small portion of the work written by Fedor Karpov, a diplomat and publicist who
worked under the Grand Prince Vasili III, has been preserved. A detailed assessment of his
literary activity is additionally complicated by the fact that Karpov’s writings were mainly extracted
from the so-called formulaire collection. There, the researcher has to rely primarily on
the literary context in order to get an idea of the aesthetic, ideological and political position
of the writer, whose works were included into the formulaire collection. As far as Karpov is
concerned, he was related primarily with the scribes from the Joseph-Volokolamsk monastery.
The author of the article tries to demonstrate the significance of the Chudov monastery in
the activity of the writer and diplomat, especially in the fate of Karpov’s works. It is shown in
the article that the replicas of the works by Fedor Karpov in the book writing activity of the
Kremlin monastery can be traced throughout the 16th century: up until 1525 Karpov was in
regular correspondence with Maxim the Greek who lived in Chudov, his Panegyric to Vasili III
was reflected in The Book of Degrees, which has been compiled many times and edited in the
same monastery.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 20-18-00171.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 18; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Fedor Karpov

value: Chudov monastery

value: formulaire collection

value: eulogy

value: correspondence

value: archive


dc.contributor.author

value: Bounatirou, Elias Moncef

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bounatirou E. M. A new approach to the enigmatic language of Kurbskij and its seeming “anomalies”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 37–55.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In 2018, the author published a two-volume monograph in German entitled “Eine Syntax
des ‘Novyj Margarit’ des A. M. Kurbskij. Philologisch-dependenzgrammatische Analysen zu
einem kirchenslavischen Übersetzungskorpus” (“A Syntax of A. M. Kurbskij’s ‘Novyj Margarit’.
A Philological and Dependency-grammatical Study of a Corpus of Church Slavonic Translations”).
This article presents some results of the study in Russian and extends and complements
the analysis begun in the monograph. The article focuses on the remarkable use of deverbal
formations with the suffixes *‑m‑ and *‑n‑ having the meaning of passive necessity such as in до просвещаемы(х)/ad illuminandos ‘to those who have to be enlightened’. It is shown that
the phenomenon in question, which can be observed in the Church Slavonic texts by Prince
Andrei Kurbskij (1528–1583), should not be considered to be linguistically erroneous, as in
the past. The fact that the use of the two formations mentioned is repeated in the same text and
that examples of this phenomenon occur in different works by different authors suggests that
it reflects a usage with a certain tradition. Consequently, the necessitative use of the deverbal
suffixations has to be regarded as correct. In addition, a more systematic analysis makes it possible
to show that a considerable number of other linguistic “anomalies” in Kurbskij’s works do
not actually represent “anomalies”, or at least they are not linguistic errors of Kurbskij’s.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Аndrei Kurbskij

value: deverbal suffixations

value: Church Slavonic

value: alleged errors

value: language norms


dc.contributor.author

value: Levichkin, Alexander N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Levichkin A. N. About Old Russian lexicography (new information about the 17th century lexicographer David Zamaray). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 77–96.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to several dictionary monuments related to the Azbukovnik genre, which
arose and developed in Old Russian lexicography in the 17th century. Several manuscripts of
these monuments, judging by the handwriting, are related to the lexicographer David Zamaray
who was the head of the Moscow Printing House in the early 17th century. The characteristic
handwriting of David Zamaray, with which the manuscripts with his author’s notes were written,
is found in the manuscripts of the National Library of Russia (RNL), Solovetskoye sobr.,
No. 302/322, RNB, Sophijskoe sobr., No. 1567. Also, presumably Zamaray can be attributed
to the list of manuscripts of the Russian State Library (RSL), collection S. O. Dolgova, No. 45.
Manuscripts of the National Library of Russia, Solovetskoye collection, No. 302/322 and RSL,
collection S. O. Dolgova, No. 45 refer to the little-studied period of the formation of the Azbukovnik
genre. The first manuscript, organized alphabetically and partly by thematic organization
of the vocabulary material, probably served as a reference for David Zamaray in his work
on other dictionaries. The second manuscript is part of the lexicographic tradition of the early
alphabet books, in which manuscripts of two editions are distinguished. The RNL manuscript,
Sophia collection, No. 1567 is a manuscript of a separate edition of the Sixth Azbukovnik described
in the article in comparison with other lexicographic monuments.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: azbukovnik

value: historical lexicography

value: David Zamaray

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Zholobov, Oleg F.

value: Baranov, Victor A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Zholobov O. F., Baranov V. A. Verbs meaning ‘know’ in Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian writing: Distributive, quantitative, and semantic properties. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 56–76.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents the first attempt of a distributive and quantitative analysis of the lexicosemantic
series in the Old Russian language based on three multi-genre subcorpora of the
historical corpus “Manuscript” (manuscripts.ru): lists of the Gospels, menaia, and chronicles.
The authors made a correlation between the software processing of the diachronic corpus of
data and their historical and linguistic status. The semantic relations between the verbs with
the general meaning ‘know’ in the Old Russian language are considered: věděti, vdati, znati.
Their substitution in the modern Russian standard by only the verb znat’ raises the question
about this lexical group’s evolutionary dynamics. The authors established that the entire series
belongs to the original lexical system, although the verb vědati was not found in Old Slavonic
manuscripts and became widespread in Old Russian sources, both colloquial and literary. The
analysis proves that the verb vědati in the Old Russian written sources acts as a substitute for
the athematic verb věděti. The revealed quantitative bigram-indicators made it possible to
establish contrasting collocations with the verbs věděti and vědati, on the one hand, and with
the verb znati, on the other. Among the collocates of the verb znati, there were neither abstract
nouns nor collocates that attach propositions. Distributive areas of the synonymy distribution
in the verb row were found, which reflected the start of diachronic competition in the chain
of lexemes. As a method for assessing the proximity of the bigrams’ components (analyzed
verbs and their collocates), the authors used the statistical measure T-score and the r-Pearson
correlation coefficient to determine the distribution’s degree series mutual correspondence.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), project No. 20-18-00206.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 18; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian written sources

value: verbs from the semantic cluster ‘know’

value: n-grams

value: distributive and quantitative analysis


dc.contributor.author

value: Molkov, Georgiy A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Molkov G. A. Ways of adapting Greekisms in the Slavic-Russian version of the Euchologion of the Great Church. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 97–113.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The Slavic-Russian translation of the Euchologion of the Great Church, made at the end of the
14th century by scribes from the circle of Metropolitan Cyprian, contains a large layer of exotic
vocabulary. The purpose of this article is to describe the specifics of the adaptation of Greek
vocabulary, borrowings, in this translation within the framework of Greek influence, which
are known from the South Slavic translations of the 14th century. The article describes the
differences concerning the degree of their morphological development, the relationship with
their Slavic equivalent and with each other. Different ways of adapting the exoticisms are associated with their semantic heterogeneity in translation. The least ordered is the use of common
noun vocabulary, denoting mainly objects of church use: each word that occurs repeatedly has
its own set of declination variants. Proper names (or common nouns in the function of proper
ones), as well as the names of heretical movements, were more consistently adapted. The frequency
of such vocabulary in the Euchologion contributed to the development of typified
means of its transmission. Along with techniques traditional for the 14th century for the Slavic
tradition (glossing, deliberate use of unadapted foreign words), the translator also uses some
new ways of adaptation, which can be considered as signs of the new wave of Greek influence.
The new methods include cases of semantization of a variant of Greekism that differs from the
traditional one, as well as methods of morphological and morphophonological adaptation of
borrowings not known in the previous tradition.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 20-18-00171.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: historical lexicology

value: loanwords

value: Euchologion of the Great Church

value: morphological adaptation


dc.contributor.author

value: Afanasyeva, Tatiana I.

value: Burilkina, Tatiana V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Afanasyeva T. I., Burilkina T. V. Vatican Psalter Vat. slav. 8: Paleographic, linguistic, and textual features of the manuscript. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 4–17.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article describes the graphic and orthographic features of the unique Old Russian Psalter
stored in the Vatican Apostolic Library (under the code Vat. slav. 8). This codex has practically
not attracted the attention of researchers because it was difficult to access. It is now available
on the Internet and can be fully studied. The Psalter was written by a highly qualified
scribe who developed a special font for his manuscript — a half-letter, built following certain
principles as the study showed. The orthography of the manuscript is focused on the ancient
Russian norms of the 16th century. However, it has very important innovations: superscripts
appear that imitate a slight Greek aspiration, as well as the writing of omega and “uk” in the
South Slavic manner. The localization and dating of the manuscript have been clarified. It
was written no earlier than the 1420s as evidenced by the special “bead” initials, as well as
the spelling of omega with a high center. Some features of the Central Russian dialect can be
traced in the scribe’s writing. The codex was brought to Italy by Metropolitan Isidore who fled from Moscow (from the Chudov Monastery) in September 1441 with many other Greek and
Slavonic manuscripts. As a result, this Manuscript can be associated with the scribes of this
monastery. A small format of the Vat. slav. 8 suggests that this was a travel book. Apparently,
the scribe created this manuscript for personal needs. He included a number of rare church
services in the codex, in particular, the unique Tuesday church service of the akathist of the
Blessed Virgin Mary according to the charter of Mount Athos.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The paper is supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant number 16-18-10137.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: Russian paleography

value: graphic-spelling system of the manuscript

value: Church Slavonic medieval liturgical texts

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Kotin, Igor Yu.

value: Aloyants, Ekaterina D.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kotin I. Yu., Aloyants E. D. A Century of Indology at the University of Hamburg. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 91–102.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the development of Indology at the University of Hamburg and analyzes
the contribution of Hamburg Indologists to the study of ancient and medieval India
and the study of modern languages and literature of India in the discipline’s development in
the sister city of St. Petersburg. The authors note that the development of Indology has a long
history in Germany and the uniqueness of the Hamburg school is observed. Germany had
more than forty Indology departments in the 19th century, much more than Great Britain
then had. The teaching of Indian languages in Hamburg began in 1914 in the classrooms of the university’s predecessor, the Hamburg Colonial Institute founded in 1908 and dissolved
in 1919, soon after World War I. The University of Hamburg started as new and progressive
institution of education in Weimar Germany, and continued for the next hundred years,
where the teaching of Sanskrit, studying ancient medieval monuments of Indian literature,
philosophy, and religious texts reached a global level thanks to outstanding Indologists, such
as Walter Schubring, Ludwig Alsdorf, Albrecht Welzer, and Lambert Schmithausen. The article
also considers the contribution to the development of Indology in Hamburg by current
Professors Eva Wilden, Michael Zimmermann, Harunaga Isaacson et al. Thanks to the activities
of these professors and their colleagues from Russia and India such as Tatiana Iosifovna
and Ram Prasad Bhatta, the study and teaching of the languages and cultures of India within
the framework of the Center for Culture and History of India and Tibet of the Institute of Asia
and Africa now includes the study of Tamil language and literature as well as North Indian
languages and literature.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 13; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Germany

value: University of Hamburg

value: indology

value: Sten Konow

value: Walther Schubring

value: Ludwig Alsdorf

value: Albrecht Welzer


dc.contributor.author

value: Akhmatshina, Enesh K.

value: Demidova, Kseniya Yu.

value: Bykov, Aleksei Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Akhmatshina E. K., Demidova K. Yu., Bykov A. Yu. Techniques and Practices of Speech Expression in Arab Diplomatic Communication. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 103–118.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to analysis of the techniques and practices of speech expression in
Arab diplomatic communication through the example of speeches made by Arab diplomatic
corps representatives and politicians at various UN venues. Original texts of speeches made
by Permanent Representatives of Arab countries at the UN concerning the situation in the
Middle East were chosen as the material for the study. The time frame covers the period
from 2011 to 2018. The UN’s multimedia resources are one of the largest platforms for diplomatic
dialogue open to the general public. Due to the intensification of relations between
Russia and the Arab countries, it is necessary to identify the specifics of Arab diplomatic
communication, as the speaker’s statements are not intended to express his or her own attitude
and assessment, but the attitude of the state he or she represents. When analyzing the
texts of speeches by diplomatic corps representatives in general, we observed the interpenetration
and mutual influence of several types of language styles, which depend on the specifics
of the issue under discussion: officialese style, inherent in diplomatic correspondence,
and publicistic, which is found in public speeches. The intermingling of styles undoubtedly
affects both the lexical and syntactic weight of the texts in a statement. In turn, Arab speakers
cannot remain emotionally indifferent to the problems of their region due to the difficult
political situation in the Middle East. For this reason, we noted not only a regular deviation
from diplomatic speech standards, primarily the abundance of emotionally evaluative vocabulary
in the texts of their speeches, but also special strategies for constructing texts that
help to have a certain effect directed at listeners and opponents — expression. Among the
most commonly used methods of speech expression, we have identified repetition, cohesion,
convergence and the effect of defeated expectancy. By means of analysis of expressive
syntaxes we studied the specifics of the use of these methods of speech expression at the level of usual-clichéd Arabic text and highlighted the specifics of tapping this speech strategy
in the language of Arabic diplomacy.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: modern standard Arabic

value: language of Arabic diplomacy

value: speech expression


dc.contributor.author

value: Fazelyanov, Envarbik M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Fazelyanov E. M. Russia and Saudi Arabia: Partnership and Common Interests. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 119–127.

dc.description.abstract

value:
There have been important changes in the development of political and economic relations
between the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), during which qualitatively
new horizons of cooperation have been outlined. The turn of Russia and Saudi Arabia
towards each other was, apparently, the result of political will and a rethinking of the role and
place of Moscow and Riyadh at the global and regional levels. One of the significant features
of these changes was the launch of mechanisms for cooperation in the energy sector, which
was practically not considered during the Soviet Union, nor in the 1990s after the collapse of
the USSR. There were several attempts to align positions in the energy sector. Energy ties were
intensified because of official bilateral contacts at the highest level. During Vladimir Putin’s
state visit to the KSA in October 2019, the Russian-Saudi Economic Council (RSEC) was
established. It includes the heads of major companies in both countries. RSEC has become
one of the most important mechanisms for coordinating investment cooperation. It focuses
on large-scale joint projects, including localization of production in the KSA and support for
Russian companies to enter the country’s market.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 13; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: energy diplomacy

value: Russia

value: Saudi Arabia

value: energy dialogue

value: OPEC Plus

value: world oil market

value: balance of interests

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Savel’eva, Natalya V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Savel’eva N. V. On the history of the texts of the Moscow Anfologion of 1660: Chapters… from the book Paradise and Tetrastichae sententiae by Gregory Nazianzen. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 147–186.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the publication history of two poetic gnomologies (collections of
maxims) as part of the collection “Anfologion” published in 1660 at the Moscow Print Yard.
This collection house primarily published works translated from the Modern Greek Venetian
editions, which presented new versions of monuments of hagiography and Byzantine patristic
heritage, theological treatises and poetic works of medieval Christian authors. Some translations
were made by the publisher — director (spravshchik) of the Printing House Arseny
Grek. Among his translations there were also collections of poetic maxims Chapters… from
the book Paradise and Tetrastichae sententiae by Gregory Nazianzen. Until now these texts
were known in Slavic translation only from the Moscow edition of 1660. The article provides
information about the previously unknown translation of both gnomologies, found in a Western
Russian manuscript of the early 17th century. The study of the texts showed that one of
them (Chapters… from the Book Paradise) was published in Anfologion in this translation, and
the newly found translation of the maxims of Gregory Nazianzen was used by Arseny Greek to
work on his text. The author expresses a hypothesis about the origin of the newly found translation
of two gnomologies from the literary circles of the Ostrog Book publishing Center, and
its possible attribution to Cyprian, the author, publisher and translator directly related to the
works of the Ostrog printing house and the printing house of the Derman Monastery. Newly
found translations are published in the Appendix.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant No. 20-18-00171.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 18; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Moscow Printing Yard

value: translation

value: Greek sources

value: Western Russian manuscript tradition

value: Ostrog Book publishing Center


dc.contributor.author

value: Penkova, Yana A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Penkova Ya. A. About the history of indefinite pronouns: quasi-relative constructions with ni budi and ni jest’ in 17th–18th century Russian language. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 114–137.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article deals with quasi-relative constructions with ni budi/ ni jest’, which were competing
in 17th‒18th century Russian language and claiming the role of an unspecific indefinite marker.
This competition resulted in the victory of the ni budi-construction and grammaticalization
of the formant nibud’ in modern Russian. The research was carried out on data taken from
the historical module of the Russian National Corpus, as well as from a subcorpus of 18th
century texts within the main corpus. Quasi-relative constructions are compared according to
the following parameters: frequency, semantic distribution, degree of phraseologization and
stylistic features. In the 17th century texts, both constructions show low frequency and occur
in a limited range of sources: mainly in documents, as well as in some chronicles and everyday
communication. In this period, the grammaticalization process was not complete for both
constructions. In 18th century texts, the frequency of quasi-relative constructions with ni budi,
unlike ni jest’, sharply increases. Constructions with ni budi (nibud’) penetrate into various
functional domains of literary language, including church literature. Constructions with ni
jest’, on the contrary, were preserved in the 18th century language only as marginal archaisms.
The semantics of quasi-relative constructions with ni budi in the period in question differed
from nibud’ pronouns in modern Russian. The latter significantly narrowed their semantic
scope, having lost the ability to be used as free-choice markers.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: history of the Russian language

value: indefinite pronouns

value: grammaticalization

value: quasirelative constructions

value: Russian National Corpus


dc.contributor.author

value: Fedorova, Irina V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Fedorova I. V. Guidebooks to the Holy Land in the repertoire of the pilgrim literature of Muscovite Rus’. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 220–238.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The repertoire of guidebooks to the Holy Land in the Old Russian literary culture of Muscovite
Rus’ is significant and diverse. Its basis is texts translated from Greek and Polish. Using the
example of the Old Russian translation of a monument preserved in handwritten lists of the
17th–18th centuries entitled “A Tale for the Benefit of Hearing and Reading About the Holy
City of Jerusalem and its Surrounding Places”, the article discusses the content and narrative
features of guidebooks to the Holy Land. The analysis showed that the studied Tale in terms of
composition, principles of material selection and organization is close to similar monuments
of the Byzantine tradition, which to one degree or another are associated with the 15th century
proskynetarian Anonymous Allyatsiya. Comparison of the text of the Tale with this proskynetarian
suggested that the original of its Old Russian translation was one of the alterations
of this guide, dating no earlier than the 16th century, when the Turks mentioned in the text
ruled Palestine. The relevance of guidebooks to Palestine for the Old Russian book culture is
also demonstrated by the original monuments of this genre, the creation of which began in
the 15th century. The article names and briefly describes several such texts of the 15th–18th
centuries, found in manuscripts under the titles “The Wanderer of Jerusalem”, “The Legend of
the Jerusalem Way”.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
within the framework of the scientific project No. 19-012-41003 “The Holy Land in little-known pilgrimage
writings of the 17th–18th centuries (research and texts)”.

value: pilgrimage literature

value: khozhdenie

value: genre

value: guidebook

value: proskynetarian

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Tomelleri, Vittorio S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Tomelleri V. S. On the role of the Novgorod tradition of Latin translations in the history of Russian language and culture: Lexical borrowings and unconscious fragments. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 202–219.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The Latin influence upon Old Russian language and culture can be detected and studied at
different levels (lexical, syntactical and phraseological). In addition to shortly discussing the
different fates, on Russian soil, of two etymologically related words, biblija and biblioteka, this
paper presents the particular case of an aphoristic quotation taken from the introduction to
the Slavic translation of the Donatus. This proposal, pointing to the fundamental position of
grammar within the system of the seven liberal arts (основание и подошва всем свободным
хитростям — origo et fundamentum omnium liberalium artium), in later centuries has been
referred to in different scientific works devoted to grammatical or pedagogical issues. However,
there has not been any direct reference to the primary source and, as a consequence, these
words have been subjected to different interpretations: from Maximus the Greek’s translation
activity in Russia to the orthodox response to the challenge posed by Jesuit schools. The material
collected and briefly discussed in the article points once again to the importance of taking
into account, when approaching the tradition of Novgorod translations from Latin, not only
the identification of the Urtext (direct tradition), but also its later reception and individual
history (indirect tradition). Going beyond the temporal and spatial boundaries of Novgorod
translated literature, we can examine its relevant and partially still unknown contribution to
Russian cultural history within a broader and more stimulating perspective.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 18; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Novgorod

value: Western cultural heritage

value: loanwords

value: Russian Donatus

value: Maximus the Greek


dc.contributor.author

value: Sokolov, Alexander I.

value: Malysheva, Irina A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sokolov A. I., Malysheva I. A. Turkisms in one of the early Russian translations of the 18th century. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 187–201.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article considers Turkic borrowings in the Russian language at the beginning of the 18th
century. The material of the study was a translation of the 17th century treatise “The History
of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire” written by the English diplomat Paul Ricaut
and translated into a number of European languages. The Russian translation was done by
P. A. Tolstoy from the Italian version in 1702–1714 and published as “The Turkish Monarchy”
in 1741. The study presents the methods of phonetic (orthographic) and morphological adaptation
of Turkisms by comparing a typographical manuscript for typesetting with edits (made
in 1725) and the printed text. The article aims at comparing the usage of borrowings with
their forms in the Italian version of the treatise and in the Polish translation since the latter, apparently, was used in the process of typographical editing of the Russian text. A number of
distorted forms of Turkisms that appeared in the Russian “Monarchy” as a result of the mechanical
transfer of typos from the Italian translation were revealed. It has been established
that the translation of compound nouns identified in the Turkic languages as izafet constructions
was mainly a copying of their forms from the Italian translation. Most of the Turkisms
in “The Turkish Monarchy” are exoticisms, but likely relevant for the Russian reader of the
18th century. Hence, the principles of including exoticisms in the “Dictionary of the Russian
Language of the 18th Century” require clarification because a number of Turkisms denoting
confessional concepts in modern Russian are part of active vocabulary.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Russian historical lexicology and lexicography

value: Turkisms

value: Paul Ricaut

value: The Turkish Monarchy


dc.contributor.author

value: Rozhdestvenskaia, Milena V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Rozhdestvenskaia M. V. Literary parallels to one Novgorod inscription of the 12th century. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (1): 138–146.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article cites new literary parallels to a graffiti inscription of the 12th century about the
death of Prince Vsevolod-Gabriel, found on the wall of the Church of the Annunciation on the
Settlement in Veliky Novgorod as a result of archeological and work by Vladimir Sedov in the
summer of 2016–2017. This inscription is a traditional genre of annalistic news of the death
of the Old Russian princes. They usually use the expression “weeping and sobbing”, “weeping
and longing / sorrow”, in different versions, to refer to the crying and tears of the prince’s
squad and relatives. In the inscription under consideration, it refers to the weeping of the
squad for the deceased Prince Vsevolod Mstislavich. The author of the article adds a number
of other literary parallels to the literary sources noted by the publishers and interpreters of the
Annunciation inscription. Especially important for expanding the literary context is the old
Russian apocryphal “Homilia for the Resurrection of Lazarus” at the end of the 12th — beginning
of the 13th centuries”. An important episode in it is the weeping — the prayer of Adam
in Hell, where he turns to Christ. The theme of weeping in the inscription on the wall of the
Church of the Annunciation and in the “Homilia on the Resurrection of Lazarus” is expressed
in similar words and phrases. The examples of similar expressions and formulas presented here allow us to expand the literary context of the Annunciation inscription about the death
of Prince Vsevolod Mstislavich.

dc.subject

value: inscription

value: death

value: prince

value: weeping

value: formulization

dc.title

value: Article


title: SPLINE-WAVELET PROCESSING OF STRUCTURED INFORMATION FLOWS

dc.contributor.author

value: Burova, I.G.

value: Dem’yanovich, Yu. K.

value: Evdokimova, T. O.

value: Ivantsova, O. N.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The book is devoted to the processing of spline-wavelet flows of structured numerical information. Adaptive schemes for the simultaneous processing of several flows are proposed.  The structure of flows is characterized by variability in both time and space. The concept of a generalized smoothness, due to it is being possible to consider singular spline wavelets, and also setting embedded of spline spaces on embedded grids. The wavelet designing of integer flows is very important. It uses integer arithmetics. Research extends to very general situations: flows of finite and infinite vectors, flows of matrices, as well as flows of elements of normalized spaces. Introduced adaptive spline-wavelet decompositions of flows are associated with the cellular subdivision of arbitrary differentiable manifolds (including smooth surfaces).
The publication is intended for researchers, graduate students and students, as well as for persons dealing with the problems of processing numerical information flows.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: numerical information flows

value: spline-wavelet decomposition

value: embedding spaces

value: wavelet decomposition on manifold

dc.type

value: Book

filename: 521015-Демьянович-В типографию.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Alimov, Denis Evgenievich

dc.identifier.citation

value: Alimov D. An innovative synthesis of early medieval Croatian history (On N. Budak’s book «The Croatian history from 550 to 1100»), 2021, vol. 1 (29), pp. 169–195.

dc.description.abstract

value: The article is a review of the book by the Croatian historian Neven Budak «Croatian history from 550 to 1100» (Budak, Neven. Hrvatska povijest od 550. do 1100. Zagreb, Leykam international, 2018. 352 р.). Budak’s book is an innovative conceptual synthesis of the early medieval history of Croatia taking full account of the latest achievements in history and archeology. From new theoretical and methodological positions, the book examines the processes of transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages in Dalmatia, Istria, and southern Pannonia, the formation of the Croatian ethnic community, the formation of Croatian polity and the socio-political development of the Croatian kingdom in the 9th–11th centuries. An important feature of the book is that the early medieval Croatian history is examined in it in a wider European context, with great attention to events and processes that took place in Byzantium, the Carolingian Empire, Rome, Venice, the Kingdom of Hungary, etc., which allowed the researcher to adequately interpret the most important events and the processes of the Croatian early Middle Ages. By creating a convenient theoretical framework for the further contextualizing of historical information, the book can serve as a new starting point for research and understanding of the Croatian early Middle Ages.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The study was conducted within the framework of the research project supported by the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research, project no. 17-06-00464 А «Historical Dynamics of Political Institutions: From Local Potestarity to the Global World-System».

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;volume 1 (29)

dc.subject

value: Early Middle Ages

value: early medieval Croatia

value: Croatian kingdom


dc.contributor.author

value: Kasianov, Georgiy Vladimirovich

value: Tairova-Yakovleva, Tatiana Gennadyevna

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kasianov G. V., Tairova-Yakovleva T. G. Reserve Hortyca and its place in historical memory, 2021, vol. 1 (29), pp. 130–144.

dc.description.abstract

value: This article is dedicated to the place of the Hortyca reserve in the Cossack myth and the historical memory of Ukraine. The Cossack myth at different stages of its formation, in its post-Soviet-populist version, was successfully integrated into the state policy of memory of independent Ukraine. The article reveals the stages and the historical context of the creation of the Hortyca reserve, shows the lack of a historical base for the «reconstruction» of the Zaporizhisn Sich. Nevertheless, the Cossack movement and the Cossack theme gain an important place in the historical politics of the presidents. The Cossack movement also became participants and organizers of public commemorative actions associated with significant events in Cossack history. The events of the Maidan 2013–2014 added new colors to the Cossack myth. The use of the Hortyca complex for the formation of an artificial place of memory associated with the Zaporizhzhya Sich and the Cossacks is studies. It is shown that there was no historical or archaeological basis for the formation of the memorial on Bolshaya Hortyca. Nevertheless, since the time of N. Yavornitsky, a number of stages in the creation of such a place of memory can be traced. In particular, P. Shelest’s decisions on perpetuating the memory of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. In 1965 was made a decision to create a historical and cultural reserve «Hortyca». One of the key places is the grave of the ataman I. Sirko. The exhumation and further investigation of Sirko’s remains became the subject of a war of memory. Only in 2000, the skull of the legendary chieftain was buried. The reserve itself remained the subject of speculation and manipulation of the Cossack myth, since would not be based on either historical or archaeological data, but it was based on the idea of recreating a certain generalized image. As a result, the complex «Hortyca’s Sich» turned out to be a generalized image of Cossack fortifications with an attempt to reproduce the structure of all eight Cossack sections that existed in the 17th–18th centuries. The complex is actively used by reenactors and folklorists.

dc.subject

value: Hortyca

value: Khortitsa

value: Zaporizhisn Sich

value: historical memory

value: Ukraine

value: reconstruction

value: Cossack history

value: ethnicity

value: cultural studies

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Ambroziak, Tomasz

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ambroziak T. First publication of documents of dietines of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 2021, vol. 1 (29), pp. 196–204.

dc.description.abstract

value: Review of the collection of acts of the Kaunas dietine 1733–1795 compiled by M. Jusupowić («Akta sejmiku kowieńskiego z lat 1733–1795» / Wyd. Jusupović, Monika. Warszawa: Instytut Historii PAN, Wydawnictwo Neriton, 2019. 660 p.). T. Ambroziak points out the importance of this publication for the study of the political and social life of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century. The reviewer notes the relative stability of the activities of the Kaunas dietine, due to the political position of the Zabiełło family. The author draws attention to the significant difference in the publication of dietines’ documents of Lithuania and Poland and to the fact that this work is the first publication of documents of dietines of the Grand Duchy. T. Ambroziak positively assesses this publication, emphasizing its completeness and the fact that materials from the collections of various archives and libraries in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Russia were attracted. The peer-reviewed publication complies with the modern Polish archaeographic practice of publication of such source material. This collection suits the model of the publication of «acts» of the dietine, formulated by S. Kutrzeba. At the same time, the reviewer points to a number of issues that have not yet been resolved by Polish historiography, as the question of transmission of the text of the source material. The author emphasizes that, despite the ongoing discussion on the development of a new instruction for the publication of historical sources of the Early Modern period, Polish scholars still, although with significant reservations, adhere to the «Publishing instruction for historical sources of the 16th – first half of the 19th centuries» formulated in the middle of the last century by K. Lepszy.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;volume 1 (29)

dc.subject

value: Grand Duchy of Lithuania

value: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

value: dietines

value: dietines’ documents

value: parliamentary system

value: Kaunas powiat

value: sources

value: historiography


dc.contributor.author

value: Selart, Anti

dc.identifier.citation

value: Selart A. Lembitu: A medieval warlord in Estonian Culture. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2021, vol. 1 (29), pp. 3–14.

dc.description.abstract

value: The 13th century was undoubtedly a period of upheaval in Baltic history. From the traditional «Estonian» point of view, between 1208 and 1227 ancient Estonians heroically defended their political and personal freedom and native religion, but unfortunately they had to surrender to German invaders and the Catholic Church. This interpretation was adopted by the Estonian audience by the end of the 19th century. However, there were not many individual historical heroes to find in medieval history who could fit the national narrative. The 13th-century sources mention very few Estonians by their names. There is one exception: Lembitu, the leader of Sakala province. In 1217 he was killed in battle; his head was cut off and taken away by crusaders. Numerous artistic presentations popularised the person of Lembitu in the 19th and 20th century and shaped the public image of Lembitu as a king-like leader of the resistance in the name of freedom and independence. At the same time, in the early 2000s parallelly an ironic or critical attitude towards traditional presentations of the medieval warlord developed. A new turn in the presentations of Lembitu in Estonian media happened in the 2010s. The topic then became connected to the question of the fate of the skull of the medieval warlord. In Estonia in the 1960s, a report began to circulate that somewhere in Poland the head of Lembitu still existed. The Estonian Ministry of Culture initiated in 2014 contact between the Estonian and Polish ministries of culture, which resulted in some investigations in Polish museums with the aim of locating the artefact. The initiative was renewed in 2017, and in 2018–2019 the Estonian Ministry of Culture funded the research of the sources of Estonian history in Poland. Although the aim of the research in Poland was defined broadly and had real scholarly results, for the media and public audience it was definitely the project «searching for the skull of Lembitu». The public need for a historical hero, local patriotism combined with tourism marketing, and at least during the last decades the playful handling of history or historical stereotypes shape in combination the presentations of Lembitu in Estonian media and culture today.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project Nr. 21-48-04402 «Saints and heroes from Christianization to Nationalism: Symbol, Image, Memory (Nord-West Russia, Baltic and Nordic countries)».

dc.language.iso

value: en

value: medievalism

value: Lembitu

value: medieval Livonia

value: Estonian historiography

value: historical imagology

value: medieval studies


dc.contributor.author

value: Volkau, Mikola Aljaksandravich

dc.identifier.citation

value: Volkau M. A. Reconstruction of the Old Castle of Hrodna, 2021, vol. 1 (29), pp. 145–160.

dc.description.abstract

value: The Old Castle in Hrodna is the most important architectural monument for Belarus in terms of its historical value, since it is the only architectural object in the country where state institutions have functioned for more than seven centuries. Active reconstruction of the castle, which began in 2016, showed that the «revival» of this building is supported by a significant part of the Belarusian society and elites, also due to the fact that castles are perceived as important symbols in the Belarusian national narrative. At the same time, such heritage objects are quite convenient in terms of interpretation and, depending on the situation and needs, can be used as symbols of different ideas and concepts. The reconstruction of the Old Castle is the quintessence of the «romantic» approach to the restoration of architectural monuments, when the basis of the concept is the desire to restore the object for a certain narrow period «in all its greatness». The project for the reconstruction of this castle is characterized by the desire to increase the architectural volumes in height in order to create a more expressive image. At the same time, the works performed in 2017–2020 showed that a significant part of architects, officials and the Belarusian society are not embarrassed by the striking difference between the proposed image and how the castle looked according to historical sources. However, the implementation of this approach threatens the Old Castle with a loss of authenticity, which is the greatest value of this monument in the long term.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;volume 1 (29)

value: architecture

value: Old Grodno Castle

value: reconstruction

value: architectural monuments

value: Grodno

value: national idea

value: cultural studies

value: national identity

dc.type

value: Article