scholarly journals The Armoury of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery: The Fate of the Collection

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-117
Author(s):  
Татьяна Юрьевна Токарева
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Basic Facts ◽  
The Trinity

Оружейная палата Троице-Сергиевой лавры - уникальное явление в истории России. Она была самым крупным хранилищем военного снаряжения православного монастыря. Здесь находилось парадное и боевое русское, западноевропейское и восточное оружие XV-XVIII вв., поступавшее в обитель самыми разными путями. В палате имелось и оружие, изготовленное монастырскими кузнецами, бронниками и самопальниками. Производство оружия осуществлялось в помещении каменной кузницы, располагавшейся рядом с ней. Возведение каменной Оружейной палаты в первой трети XVIII в. ознаменовало её особый статус. Троицкий арсенал разместили в роскошном здании, выстроенным значительно раньше, чем здание ризницы, потому что хранению оружия придавалось огромное значение. Она стала местом, где берегли боевую славу троицких ратников. Всё это вооружение ныне практически уничтожено: оружие передано в разные собрания, а палата разобрана для «лучшего в монастыре преспекта и пространства». Лишь малая часть когда-то мощного арсенала ныне находится в собраниях российских музеев. Из данной статьи можно узнать основные факты по истории изъятия оружия из Лавры, а также познакомиться с современными местами его хранения (а именно в Сергиево-Посадском музее-заповеднике, ЦАК МДА, Московской Оружейной палате, Музее артиллерии, в Государственном Эрмитаже, в музеях города Владимира, в Музее истории России, в музее «Новый Иерусалим», Государственном историческом музее, Вологодском областном краеведческом музее и ряде других мест). The Armoury of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra is a unique phenomenon in the history of Russia. It used to be the largest repository of military equipment for an Orthodox monastery. There were ceremonial and military weapons of the 15th to the 18th centuries, which would come to the monastery in various ways, representing Russia, Western Europe and the East. The Armoury also contained weapons produced by the monastery’s blacksmiths, armors and samopalniks. The production of weapons was carried out in a stone forge located next to the Armoury. The construction of a stone building for the Armoury in the first third of the 18th century marked its special status. The Trinity Arsenal was housed in admirable premises built even much earlier than the sacristy building, as the storage of weapons was of great importance: the Armoury was the place of glory for the warriors of the Holy Trinity monastery. Nowadays that collection of weapons has been virtually destroyed, with the items transferred to various assemblies, and the Armoury chamber dismantled for «better aspect and more space in the monastery». Only a small part of the once powerful arsenal is now present within the assemblies of different Russian museums. This article reveals the basic facts on the history of the withdrawal of weapons from the Lavra, and also touches on where they are stored today (namely, in the Sergiev Posad Museum-Preserve, in the Central Administrative Commission of the Moscow Theological Academy, in the Moscow Armoury Chamber, in the Museum of Artillery, in the State Hermitage Museum, in the Museum of the History of Russia, in the New Jerusalem Museum, in the State Historical Museum, in Vladimir city museums, in the Vologda Regional Museum of Local Lore, and in a number of other places).

scholarly journals ‘... Her Imperial Majesty Deigned to Declare Herself’: V. N. Tatishchev’s Journal-Book for 1734

2018 ◽  
pp. 882-891
Author(s):  
Mikhail A. Kiselev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
The State ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
State Archive ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important State

This is the first publication of the journal-book kept by famous Russian statesman and historian Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev from February 10 to April 2, 1734, after his appointment director of the Urals state-owned metallurgical plants. This document allows to clarify the circumstances of V. N Tatishchev's appointment to the Urals, including its date. According to the document, it was made on February 10 by oral order of the Empress. Immediately afterwards Vasily Nikitich plunged into planning his trip assisted by cabinet-ministers A. I. Osterman, A. M. Cherkassky, and president of the Commerce-Collegium P. P. Shafirov. The journal-book allows to reconstruct the flow of communication within the bureaucratic elite in 1730s. It also shows that internal documentation (minutes and registers) of the Cabinet of Ministers does not fully reflect its activities. It indicates that the Empress took a most active part and interest in Tatishchev’s appointment and his sending away; she thus sought to keep under her personal control all most important state affairs, including management of metallurgical plants. The document is of interest for studying history of Russian culture of the 18th century, as it contains some information about translator and writer K. A. Kondratovich and historian P. N. Krekshin. It intimates that Kondratovich was exiled to the Urals with Tatishchev by oral order from Anna Ioannovna. To this, there is no other documentary evidence, and therefore, Kondratovich attempted to mystify the circumstances of his exile to the Urals and to bury the fact in oblivion. The document is stored in the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region, Ekaterinburg.

The State

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
The State ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
Republican Government ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Early Modern Times

It is often said that the subject matter of political philosophy is the nature and justification of the state. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel thinks that political science is “nothing other than an attempt to comprehend and portray the state as an inherently rational entity.” John Rawls famously understands “the primary subject of justice [to be] the basic structure of society,” restricting his attentions to a society “conceived for the time being as a closed system isolated from other societies,” and assuming that “the boundaries of these schemes are given by the notion of a self-contained national community.” Contemporary political philosophers often follow suit, disagreeing about what states should do, and simply assuming that they are the proper agents of justice or reform. The history of philosophy and the development of political concepts seem to be central to understanding the state. The influence of Roman law and republican government, and the rediscovery of Aristotle in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, are obvious important influences. The modern state emerged first in Western Europe in early modern times.

Metropolitan Platon (Levshin) — publicist

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-115
Author(s):  
Eduard L. Afanasyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
The Road ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Educated Person ◽  
The Trinity

The article deals with the work of Metropolitan of Moscow Platon II (worldly surname — Levshin) (1737–1812), who became famous not only as an outstanding preacher of the second half of the 18th century, but also as a historical writer. The well-known facts of his life and the creative history of works receive a new sound in the context of a spiritual biography; first of all — a strong connection to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and a deep understanding of the spiritual experience of venerable Sergius of Radonezh. A comparative analysis of the text “On the Road to Schism” (1767) and “Brief History of the Russian Church” (1805) was undertaken, illustrating the path of spiritual growth. The author is presented not just as a widely educated person, but as a hierarch, vigilantly expanding his spiritual horizon. Changes in genre priorities and lexical and stylistic features, adherence to certain literary traditions, the dominance of a national idea, proximity to Church Slavonic sources and ancient Russian literary tradition are traced. One of the key roles of the spiritual heritage of Metropolitan Platon II in the historical and literary process of the second half of the 18th century is confirmed.

scholarly journals THE CAUSES OF THE WEST UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC (ZUNR) DEFEAT: INVASION, HEROISM, INACTIVITY OR TREASON?

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 198-211
Author(s):  
Bohdan YAKYMOVYCH
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Neutral Position ◽  
The West ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Army Leadership ◽  
History Of

Assessing the Ukrainian Revolution, 1917–1921, and the proclaiming of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR) as the second most crucial phenomenon in the history of the Ukrainian people after the establishment of the Cossack State under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in the 18th century, the author of this study pays special attention to the mistakes of the political and army leadership of the Galicians, which caused the demise of the state in the Galicia-Bukovyna-Zakarpattia region. The author identifies three periods, during which it was possible to send the Polish occupiers away from the territory of the Eastern Galicia. It was the wasted time, disorientation in the Polish domestic contradictions, disarrangement of the rear, failure to enforce the Act of Unification of the ZUNR, and the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR), as well as the developments in the Dnieper region, caused the demise of the ZUNR. The latter found itself face to face with the might of the revived Polish state already in the second quarter of 1919. Just at that time, the Entente, with a neutral position of the United States, supplied the Poles with considerable forces and means throwing the Ukrainians at the paws of Poland, Romania, and White and Red Russia. Keywords West Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR), Lviv, Peremyshl (Przemysl), Dmytro Vitovskyi, Hnat Stefaniv, Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko

scholarly journals ИСТОРИЈА ЈЕДНЕ КАРТОГРАФСКЕ ЗАБЛУДЕ – ЕРШОМЉО (ВРШАЦ) НА СТАРИМ ГЕОГРАФСКИМ КАРТАМА HISTORY OF A CARTOGRAPHIC MISCONCEPTION – ÉRSOMLYÓ (VRŠAC) IN OLD GEOGRAPHIC MAPS

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-188
Author(s):  
Александар Крстић
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Old Maps ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

У раду се анализирају старе географске карте, настале од осмадесетих година XV до половине XVIII века, на којима су приказани тврђава или насеље Ершомљо. Иако је овај јужнобанатски град после пада под османску власт (1552) током друге половине XVI столећа трајно променио име у Вршац, Ершомљо је и даље упорно приказиван у бројним картографским публикацијама насталим у западној Европи у наведеном периоду. Услед погрешног преузимања података са старих карата и непознавања савремене географије европске Турске, па тако ни Баната, Ершомљо је на анализираним картама најчешће лоциран знатно источније, некада и на саму границу Баната према Трансилванији и Влашкој. Од друге половине XVII века, а посебно у време Великог бечког рата, на европским географским картама почиње да се појављује и Вршац. Међутим, на неким картама из овог периода механички су преношени подаци са старијих карата, па је паралелно с Вршцем уцртаван и Ершомљо. The paper analyses old geographic maps, created from the 1480s until the mid-18th century, which show the fortress or settlement of Érsomlyó. Although this south Banat town, after its fall under Ottoman rule (1552) permanently changed its name into Vršac in the second half of the 16th century, Érsomlyó was still persistently shown in numerous cartographic publications created in Western Europe in this period. Due to erroneous copying of data from old maps and the lack of knowledge about the contemporary geography of European Turkey, including Banat, in the analysed maps Érsomlyó is most often located much more eastward, sometimes on the very border of Banat towards Transylvania and Wallachia. From the second half of the 17th century, particularly at the time of the Great Turkish War, Vršac also began to appear in European geographic maps. However, data from older maps were mechanically transferred to some maps from this period, and Érsomlyó was inscribed in parallel with Vršac.

The Singing Coachman or, The Road and Russia's Ethnographic Invention in Early Modern Times

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 33-61
Author(s):  
John Randolph
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
National Character ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Road ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Times

AbstractScholars agree that the first modern ethnographic traditions surrounding Russia developed in travel accounts written by foreigners in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. These laid the foundations for a 'national turn' in Russian belles-lettres in the late 18th century. Yet scholars have paid relatively little attention to the history of the coach system, known as the iam, that made travel writing about Muscovy possible. Many foreign travelers—as well as Imperial Russian hommes des lettres —were fascinated by the figures of Russia's iamshchiki, the state peasants who manned the state-organized coach system. The lives and expressions of these coachmen were often taken as proxies for Russia's national character. This article describes this process, demonstrating how the iam system provided a practical as well as a symbolic frame for the making of early conceptions of Russian nationality.

Fatal outbreaks of jaundice in pregnancy and the epidemic history of hepatitis E

2012 ◽  
Vol 140 (5) ◽  
pp. 767-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.-G. TEO
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Hepatitis E ◽  
Southern Mediterranean ◽  
History Of ◽  
In Pregnancy

SUMMARYSpace–time clustering of people who fall acutely ill with jaundice, then slip into coma and death, is an alarming phenomenon, more markedly so when the victims are mostly or exclusively pregnant. Documentation of the peculiar, fatal predisposition of pregnant women during outbreaks of jaundice identifies hepatitis E and enables construction of its epidemic history. Between the last decade of the 18th century and the early decades of the 20th century, hepatitis E-like outbreaks were reported mainly from Western Europe and several of its colonies. During the latter half of the 20th century, reports of these epidemics, including those that became serologically confirmed as hepatitis E, emanated from, first, the eastern and southern Mediterranean littoral and, thereafter, Southern and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the rest of Africa. The dispersal has been accompanied by a trend towards more frequent and larger-scale occurrences. Epidemic and endemic hepatitis E still beset people inhabiting Asia and Africa, especially pregnant women and their fetuses and infants. Their relief necessitates not only accelerated access to potable water and sanitation but also vaccination against hepatitis E.

scholarly journals Northern and Western Europe in “Illustrated Tributaries of the Qing Empire”

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Dmitry I. Maiatskii
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
State University ◽  
Qing Empire ◽  
History Of

This paper explores features of the visual images and descriptions of the inhabitants of four European states (Sweden, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland), found in “Huang Qing Zhi Gong Tu” (“Tributaries of the ruling Qing dynasty”) – a Chinese historical and ethnographic book compiled by Fu Heng in the middle of the 18th century. The book is stored in the collection of rare Oriental books at St. Petersburg State University. Eight xylographic illustrations of the inhabitants of the European states are selected and analyzed. The attached explanatory texts are also translated. They contain information about the geographical location of the countries mentioned, as well as the history of their contacts with China and some notes about the inhabitants of these countries, including an anthropological portrait, a description of costumes, customs, occupations and so on. The interpretation is carried out in accordance with the principles of scientific translation used by academician Vasiliy M. Alekseev (1881–1951). In case of need the translations are supplemented with textological, historiographic and culturological commentaries. An analysis of the drawings and texts aids in recreating the picture of the perception by the Chinese of the mid-18th century of the four European states. The archaic names of countries and peoples used by compilers are analyzed. Misconceptions and stereotypes of Chinese compilers are revealed. Attempts are being made to explain their possible origins. The author of the paper found out that the compilers sometimes relied upon a method of explanation of the phenomena unknown to the Chinese by rethinking similar facts from the history and culture of China.

scholarly journals MILITARIZATION OF THE STATE - POWER AND MILITARY IN MODERN TIMES: AN ESSAY IN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND METHODOLOGY OF THE PROBLEM

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
D.O. Gordienko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
State Power ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Given

The article contains the results of research on the development of foreign and Russian history. The work is based on materials of monographs and scientific articles in Russian. The main task of its analysis is to reveal what intellectual processes influenced historians. The sphere of scientific interests of the given scientists includes the history of the state, the fiscal-military state and the processes of formation of modern armed forces in Western Europe and Russia in the XV-XIX centuries.

ЦИРКОВЕ МИСТЕЦТВО У ПРОСТОРІ ТА ЧАСІ: ВІД КОЛІЗЕЮ ДО АМФІТЕАТРУ ЕСТЛІ; ВІД СКОМОРОХІВ ДО СУЧАСНОСТІ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reasonable Ground ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Further Development ◽  
New Time

У контексті дослідження особливостей розвитку циркового мистецтва і циркової справи на західноукраїнських землях кінця ХVІІІ–ХІХ ст. поставлено завдання простежити процес становлення циркового мистецтва на етнічній території України. Розглянуто проблематику визначення зв’язку сучасного циркового мистецтва України з мистецтвом скоморохів; зроблено спробу визначення ступеню «спорідненості» зв’язку цирку Нового часу з давньоримським цирком.З’ясовано, що через брак історичних відомостей не існує підстав пов’язувати творчість скоморохів із ґенезою професійного циркового мистецтва в Україні. Більш коректним є визначення витоків сучасного циркового мистецтва в перших гастрольних виступах на етнічній території України західноєвропейських акробатичних і циркових труп, які належать до другої пол. XVIII ст., виходячи зі значущості їх впливу на системність подальшого розвитку циркових жанрів і циркового мистецтва. Розглянуто і визначено спільні риси, відмінності і особливості цирку Нового часу і давньоримського цирку.Ключові слова: цирк, циркове мистецтво, історія цирку, витоки циркового мистецтва, мистецтво скоморохів, давньоримський цирк. In the context of the study of the features of the development of Circus Art and the functioning of Circus business at the Western Ukrainian lands at the end of the 18th – during the 19th century, the author set the task to track down the processes of the inception of Circus Art at the ethnic territory of Ukraine.In this article, the problems of determining the continuity of contemporary circus art of Ukraine with the art of Scomorochs are considered; an attempt is made to determine the degree of «kinship» of the connection of the circus of New time with the ancient Roman circus. It turned out that today, due to the lack of historical documental evidences, there is no reasonable ground for the scientists to relate the art of Scomorochs with the genesis of the professional Circus Art in Ukraine. It seems more correct to determine the origins of the modern Circus Art in the first guest performances of the acrobatic and circus troupes from Western Europe at the ethnic territory of Ukraine, which belong to the second half of the 18th century, based on the significance of their influence on the further development of Circus genres and the Circus Art.The similarities, differences, and features of the Circus of the New Time and the ancient Roman circus have been considered and determined.Key words: circus, circus art, history of the circus, the origins of circus art, the art of scomorochs, the ancient Roman circus.

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