scholarly journals XII. Proposals for the improvement of the history of Russia, by publishing, from time to time, separate pieces to serve for a collection of all sorts of memoirs relating to the Transactions and state of that nation: Printed at St. Petersburg, for the Imperial Academy of Sciences

1733 ◽  
Vol 38 (429) ◽  
pp. 136-142

The History of the Empire of Russia and its Provinces and Territories incorporate, has, ’till now, laboured under such Difficulties, that it almost seems impossible to produce any System of it under twenty or more Years to come.

2003 ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
A.A. Baikov ◽  
A. Gaina

This paper describes a history of friendship and collaboration between the astronomers N. Donitch and A.A. Baikov. Information on other astronomers L.V. Okulitch and E.A. Von der Pahlen, and meteorologists V.H. Dubinskii and Nina Gouma, can also be found. Details on the expeditions aimed at observing the total solar eclipses on 30 August 1905 (organized by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Sankt-Petersburg) and 19 June 1936 (organized by the Romanian Royal Cultural foundation) are given. The main part represents the first English translation of the paper by Baikov, published earlier in Russian and Romanian, with a new preface, annotations, and comments.


Author(s):  
Piotr Daszkiewicz ◽  
Dominika Mierzwa-Szymkowiak

Letters from Władysław Taczanowski to Alexander Strauch in the Russian Academy of Sciences Collections. An Interesting Contribution to the History of Zoology in the Nineteenth Century The article presents the Polish translation and analysis of the letters from Władysław Taczanowski (1819–1890) to Aleksander Strauch (1832–1893). The correspondence is stored in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and comprises 29 letters written between 1870 and 1889. The main theme of these letters is specimens of reptiles and amphibians sent to Warsaw by Polish naturalists, such as Benedykt Dybowski from Siberia, Konstanty Jelski from French Guiana and Peru, Jan Kalinowski from Korea, as well as specimens brought by Taczanowski from Algeria. Strauch determined the species and used them in his publications. This correspondence is also a valuable testimony of the exchange of specimens between the Warsaw Zoological Cabinet and the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. In return for herpetological specimens, the Warsaw collection received numerous fish specimens from the Russian Empire and a collection of birds from Mikołaj Przewalski’s expedition to Central Asia. The content of the letters allows a better understanding of the functioning of natural history museography but also the organization of shipments, preparation, determination, and exchange of specimens. They are a valuable document of the history of nineteenth-century scientific museography.


Author(s):  
А.Я. Докучаев ◽  
М.В. Полякова ◽  
А.Г. Гурбанов ◽  
Ф.В. Кулаков ◽  
Е.Б. Курдюков ◽  
...  

Статья написана по материалам Рудно-Петрографического музея ИГЕМ РАН и Библиотеки Геологической литературы БЕН РАН в ИГЕМ РАН. В здании Института геологии рудных месторождений, петрографии, минералогии и гео- химии Российской академии наук (ИГЕМ РАН), помимо профильных научных и аналитических лабораторий, располагаются Библиотека геологической литературы (БГЛ) и Рудно-петрогра- фический музей (РПМ). БГЛ является единственной специализированной академической геологической библиотекой в Москве и содержит крупнейший в России фонд геологической литературы. БГЛ была факти- чески создана в 1880 г. как книжный фонд Минералогического музея Императорской АН в Санкт- Петербурге и дальше развивалась в тесной связи с его научной деятельностью. В 1938 г. би- блиотека получила название «Библиотека отделения геолого-географических наук». С 1973 г. и по настоящее время библиотека является научно-исследовательским отделом БЕН РАН с наименованием «Библиотека геологической литературы в ИГЕМ РАН». Рудно-петрографический музей (РПМ) ИГЕМ РАН располагает современной систематиче- ской коллекцией горных пород и большинства руд. История коллекций музея тесно связана с Санкт-Петербургской Кунсткамерой. Начало петрографической коллекции музея было поло- жено академиком В.И. Вернадским в 1908 г. Архивные материалы и коллекции РПМ, имеющие более чем 200-летнюю историю хранения, представляют несомненный научный интерес. Рудно-петрографический музей ИГЕМ РАН и Библиотека геологической литературы БЕН РАН развивают научные и гуманитарные связи с музеями и институтами геологического и естественно-научного профиля, в первую очередь с академическими учреждениями, имеющими с ними общие исторические корни. Apart from fi eld-oriented research and analytical laboratories, the building of the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IGEM RAS) also houses also the Library of Geological Literature (LGL) and Ore-Petrographic Museum (OPM). LGL is the only specialized academic library of geological literature in Moscow and owns Russia’s largest collection of geological literature. LGL was actually established in 1880 as a book fund of geological literature at the Mineralogical Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and developed further hand in hand with its scientifi c activities. In 1938, the library received the name of “The Library of the Department of Geological and Geographical Sciences. Since 1973 up to present, the library is a research department of the Library of Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and is referred to as The Library of Geological Literature at IGEM RAN (the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits of the Russian Academy of Sciences). The Ore-Petrographic Museum (OPM) at IGEM RAN possesses types. The history of the museum collections is closely related to St. Petersburg’s Kuntskammer. The start of the petrographic museum collection was made by V.I. Vernadsky in 1908. Archive materials and collections of OPM, whose history of preservation stretching back over 200 years, are of undoubted academic interest. The Ore-Petrographic Museum at IGEM RAN and the Library of Geological Literature of BEN RAN extent scientifi c and humanitarian relations with a broad circle of museums and institutes specializing in the fi eld of geology and natural science, fi rst and foremost, with academic institutions, with which are connected through common historical roots.


Author(s):  
Kirill Yu. Zubkov ◽  
Vladimir V. Tikhomirov

For the fi rst time, we publish an unknown review written by Aleksandr Nikitenko, a member of Imperial Academy of Sciences, of the comedy by Alexander Ostrovsky «The Forest». This review was compiled on behalf of the commission that distributed Aleksey Uvarov’s awards for the playwrights after Alexander Ostrovsky submitted his play to the competition. Review by Aleksandr Nikitenko was read at a meeting of the commission; its copy has been discovered in his personal archive. Alexander Ostrovsky participated in the competition for Aleksey Uvarov’s award for more than 15 years, but he achieved success only twice: with his «The Storm» in 1860 and with the drama «Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All» in 1863. Aleksandr Nikitenko, himself a member of the academic commission, for several years was reviewing all the works that competed for the prize, and almost always gave negative conclusions about them. He reacted sharply negatively to «The Forest» as well. In the article, Aleksandr Nikitenko’s review is considered in the context of literary, critical and theatrical criticism of the comedy by Alexander Ostrovsky, which were released shortly after its publication and production. The publication was prepared on the basis of archival documents found in St. Petersburg department of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences


2021 ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Tatiana Yu. Feklova ◽  

The article is to study the history of formation and development of the unique library of the Beijing Magnetic Meteorological Observatory governed by the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. Nowadays, researchers increasingly focus their attention not just on history of institutes themselves, but also on history of their communications with and incorporation into the scientific institutional community. Studying the library of the Beijing Magnetic Meteorological Observatory (BMMO) and its books provide a better understanding of its place in the network of magnetic meteorological observatories of the 19th century Russian Empire, which has determined the novelty of the work. The author has introduced into scientific use new archival documents and data from the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Academy of Sciences and from the Russian National Library. The article analyzes activities and history of the Observatory, which was located on the territory of the Russian Orthodox mission in Beijing (China) from 1848 to 1914. For the first time in Russian and international historiography, not only the formation history of the library of the Beijing Observatory has been analyzed, but also the contents and structure of the library stock and its uniqueness. The author has demonstrated variety of its scientific life. As the library was destroyed in the Yihetuan Movement in 1900 and the 1917 Revolution in Russia, the article covers the second half of the 19th century. Its methodological basis modern basic principles of historical research (scientific objectivity, historicism, consistency, historical-genetic approach, etc.), as well as methods of social history of science (relationship between the science and the state, between the science and other social institutions, etc.). It uses the methods of statistical processing of large databases (the sampling method and the method of grouping and summarizing the materials of statistical observation) to analyze the books in library. The research fills the gaps in scientific knowledge on 19th century China and introduces data on the activities of the Imperial Academy of Sciences institutions (Magnetic Meteorological Observatory as well as its library as auxiliary apparatus). Studying the history of scientific research in China can enrich the scientific ties between two countries and allow us to rethink the historical legacy of Russia and China.


1875 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 311-320
Author(s):  
Walter Flight

This celebrated siderolite has recently been sawn into two nearly equal parts, and the occasion presented a fitting opportunity for an exhaustive examination of its constituent minerals, more especially of the olivine forming the chief ingredient. It was accordingly undertaken by von Kokscharow, at the desire of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and his memoir is mainly devoted to a description of the crystallographic characters of the silicate enclosed in the nickel-iron.


Author(s):  
O. V. Nikitin

The article presents an analytical review of the biography and scientific activity of F.I. Buslaev (1818–1897), an outstanding Russian philologist and academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Special attention is paid to his innovation in his studies of monuments of folk literature, and teaching the history of the Russian language. F.I. Buslaev was one of the originators of modern comparative studies, lingua-cultural analysis, and influenced the development of science during the XX–XXI centuries. This article releases new archive documents revealing F.I. Buslaev’s laboratory of creative thought, and describing his formation as a scientist. Interesting little-known biographical facts are also presented. F.I. Buslaev’s personality is considered in the context of the social and historical events of his time.


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