“Poem about Tsar Family” in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Works and Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 118-125
Author(s):  
Tatiana I. Radomskaya
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Marina Tsvetaeva ◽  
Prophetic Vision ◽  
History Of

The article examines peculiar features of historic realism in the work of Marina Tsvetaeva, based on her prophetic vision of Russian history. The article deals with the history of one of Tsvetaeva’s works – the “Poem about Tsar Family” (1917–1920): the author investigates the documentary materials, which were important for Tsvetaeva, such as episodes from Tsveataeva’s diary and published letters of Empress Alexandra Fedorovna. The article presents an analysis of the poetics of the poem, which sometimes is similar to the poetics of sermons by famous Russian bishop of the seventeenth century – Dimitry of Rostov. The author of the article argues that Marina Tsvetaeva was one of the first to describe the life and death of the Tsar family as a sacrifice for the Russian people.

A Publishing History of A Discourse of Life and Death, Translated by the Countess of Pembroke

The Library ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-176
Author(s):  
J K Moore
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
History Of ◽  
Print Shop ◽  
Mary Sidney Herbert

Abstract The short meditation, A discourse of life and death was translated by Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke in 1590 from Excellent discours de la vie et de la mort by Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly. This article presents the publishing history of Herbert’s translation and how it was adapted twice in the seventeenth century. First, it is found as an incomplete manuscript by ‘T. H. Gent.’ (BL MS Sloane 1037). The manuscript has the correct licence to print, but the wrong author, and was used as setting copy in the print shop of George Eld and Miles Flesher in early 1624. All copies of that edition are now lost. In 1697 Herbert’s translation was revised again as the ‘contemplations’ of Sir John Fenwick before his execution for treason.

The Early History of the Russian Peasantry

1951 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
Jerome Blum
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Russian History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Primary Producer ◽  
Soviet Historiography ◽  
Current Standards ◽  
The Revolution

The agitation in mid-nineteenth-century Russia for the abolition of serfdom gave the first great stimulus to Russian scholarly interest in the history of the peasantry. The persistence of the land problem down to the Revolution and since then the Soviet preoccupation with the primary producer have kept alive this interest. As a result, a large number of studies of the agrarian history of their country, many of them works of high value, have been written by Russian scholars both before and since 1917. One of the most recent and most important contributions to the literature of this subject has been made by B. D. Grekov in his history of the peasantry from earliest times to the seventeenth century. Although its author remains carefully within the doctrinal limits imposed by the current standards of orthodoxy in Soviet historiography, his work is indispensable for the study not only of agrarian history but of all phases of early Russian history.

Patrick Gordon as Scotsman

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Paul Dukes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Senior Scholar ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

In this essay, a well known senior scholar of early modern Russian history reflects on his encounters with Professor Ruslan Skrynnikov and on his own research interests, especially the career and diary of General Patrick Gordon, the famous Scotsman who mentored Peter the Great. Also included are the author’s reflections on the “General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century” and the impact on history of global climate change.

Economic Views of L. Trotsky

2004 ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
M. Voeikov ◽  
S. Dzarasov
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Russian History ◽  
History Of

The paper written in the light of 125th birth anniversary of L. Trotsky analyzes the life and ideas of one of the most prominent figures in the Russian history of the 20th century. He was one of the leaders of the Russian revolution in its Bolshevik period, worked with V. Lenin and played a significant role in the Civil War. Rejected by the party bureaucracy L. Trotsky led uncompromising struggle against Stalinism, defending his own understanding of the revolutionary ideals. The authors try to explain these events in historical perspective, avoiding biases of both Stalinism and anticommunism.

Essays of a “comparatively progressive” economist (On the 150th birth anniversary of Vladimir Geleznoff)

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-145
Author(s):  
Viktor A. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Working Ability ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
History Of

Deep comprehension of the advanced economic theory, the talent of lecturer enforced by the outstanding working ability forwarded Vladimir Geleznoff scarcely at the end of his thirties to prepare the publication of “The essays of the political economy” (1898). The subsequent publishing success (8 editions in Russia, the 1918­-year edition in Germany) sufficiently demonstrates that Geleznoff well succeded in meeting the intellectual inquiry of the cross­road epoch of the Russian history and by that taking the worthful place in the history of economic thought in Russia. Being an acknowledged historian of science V. Geleznoff was the first and up to now one of the few to demonstrate the worldwide community of economists the theoretically saturated view of Russian economic thought in its most fruitful period (end of XIX — first quarter of XX century).

Command Staff Formation of the Boundary Guard Independent Corps: Resources of the Pre-Revolutionary Period.

2009 ◽  
pp. 59-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Bandurin
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Special Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
Psychology Pedagogy ◽  
Revolutionary Period

The analysis of bibliographic sources of the pre-revolutionary period carried out by the author on the problems for recruitment and education of the higher command staff formation of the boundary guard independent corps can serve as the basis for research of history of the boundary guard, Russian special services, Russian history and related subjects — sociology, psychology, pedagogy, political science, law, culturology, etc.

Muscovy and the Tatars

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-431
Author(s):  
Bulat R. Rakhimzianov
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
East European ◽  
Central Eurasia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
Forest Line ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article explores relations between Muscovy and the so-called Later Golden Horde successor states that existed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries on the territory of Desht-i Qipchaq (the Qipchaq Steppe, a part of the East European steppe bounded roughly by the Oskol and Tobol rivers, the steppe-forest line, and the Caspian and Aral Seas). As a part of, and later a successor to, the Juchid ulus (also known as the Golden Horde), Muscovy adopted a number of its political and social institutions. The most crucial events in the almost six-century-long history of relations between Muscovy and the Tatars (13–18th centuries) were the Mongol invasion of the Northern, Eastern and parts of the Southern Rus’ principalities between 1237 and 1241, and the Muscovite annexation of the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates between 1552 and 1556. According to the model proposed here, the Tatars began as the dominant partner in these mutual relations; however, from the beginning of the seventeenth century this role was gradually inverted. Indicators of a change in the relationship between the Muscovite grand principality and the Golden Horde can be found in the diplomatic contacts between Muscovy and the Tatar khanates. The main goal of the article is to reveal the changing position of Muscovy within the system of the Later Golden Horde successor states. An additional goal is to revisit the role of the Tatar khanates in the political history of Central Eurasia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Rites of Passage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Michaels
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Sexual Maturity ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Transformational Process ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Vulnerable Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

This chapter examines the classical Hindu life-cycle rites, the term saṃskāra and its history, and the main sources (Gṛhyasūtras and Dharma texts). It presents a history of the traditional saṃskāras and variants in local contexts, especially in Nepal. It describes prenatal, birth and childhood, initiation, marriage, old-age, death, and ancestor rituals. Finally, it analyzes the transformational process of these life-cycle rituals in the light of general theories on rites of passage. It proposes, in saṃskāras, man equates himself with the unchangeable and thus seems to counteract the uncertainty of the future, of life and death, since persons are confronted with their finite existence. For evidently every change, whether social or biological, represents a danger for the cohesion of the vulnerable community of the individual and society. These rituals then become an attempt of relegating the effects of nature or of mortality: birth, teething, sexual maturity, reproduction, and dying.

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