scholarly journals From the Epistolary Heritage of the Poet Ivan A. Kostin: Correspondence with V. I. Malyshev and I. N. Zavoloko

Author(s):  
Alexander V. Pigin ◽  

The article presents a study and publication of the correspondence of the poet Ivan Alekseevich Kostin (1931–2015) from Petrozavodsk with the archaeographer Vladimir Ivanovich Malyshev (1910–1976), who held a Doctor of Sciences degree in Philology, and the Old Believer writer and educator Ivan Nikiforovich Zavoloko (1897–1984). The correspondence includes letters and greeting cards (30 in total) from the 1970s to the early 1980s. They are currently stored in the Manuscript Division of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, the Archive of the Grebenshchikov Old Believer Congregation in Riga, the National Museum of the Republic of Karelia in Petrozavodsk, and the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia, also in Petrozavodsk. Kostin’s letters to Malyshev reveal how the Petrozavodsk poet aided Malyshev in collecting manuscripts for the Ancient Manuscripts Repository (Drevlekhranilishe) in the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom). The correspondence between Kostin and Zavoloko concerns the history and culture of the Old Believers, the Vygoleksinsky monastery, and the Zaonezhye, and issues pertaining to literary activity and academic studies. The letters make a valuable addition to Kostin’s memoirs about Malyshev and Zavoloko. The article also covers the history of Kostin’s poem dedicated to Archpriest Avvakum. The letters, published in the appendix to the article, are accompanied by comments.

Author(s):  
Florentina V. Panchenko ◽  

The article is devoted to a previously unknown work of hymnography — a sticheron to Archpriest Avvakum, whose chant was composed and recorded in “hooks” notation by Daniil Davydovich Mikhailov, mentor of the First Daugavpils Old Believer community in the 1930s and 1940s. The record of the chant is preserved in the Latgalskoe collection (no. 39) of the Ancient Manuscripts Repository (Drevlekhranilishe) at the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkinskij Dom) in St. Petersburg. The circumstances of its entry into the collection are disclosed in letters of the Baltic group of Old Believers to Vladimir Malyshev, the founder of the Drevlikhranilishe, who was searching for everything related to the memory of Archpriest Avvakum. Daniil Mikhailov, one of the most prominent Baltic Old Believers of the 20th century, a precentor, an educator and an associate of Ivan Zаvoloko, was also known as an outstanding singer, a connoisseur of the ancient ­Znamenny chant and a scribe of musical manuscript books written in “hooks” notation. Mikhailov composed the sticheron to Archpriest Avvakum on the text of the doxastikon from the aposticha of the 6th echos from the Service to Bishop Pavel Kolomensky. The chant of the sticheron is original, but nevertheless it is based on certain genre ­prototypes found in the Old Russian tradition. The article examines the sticheron in the context of the Old Belivers’ hymnographic activity in the 18th — 20th centuries. The study also takes into account the little-known illuminated copy of the Service to Bishop Pavel Kolomensky in the Chuvanov’s collection of the Library of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg (Chuvanov 177).


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Wróblewska

The keyboard instrument MNP I 49 from the Museum of Musical Instruments in Poznań has not been a subject of detailed academic studies yet, but there have been mentions of it in various types of publications throughout the years. The item is currently placed in the exhibition hall devoted to the art of the Baroque era in the Museum of Applied Arts in Poznań. It is a unique historical item in the Polish collection due to a very scarce number of harpsichords preserved in Poland. This situation is mainly a result of two world wars in the 20th century. Due to not enough available sources, the exact time of the creation of the instrument and the name of its builder were impossible to determine. The aim of the present article was to compile and arrange previous knowledge about the historical item MNP I 49. The work lists source materials and publications in which the instrument was mentioned, such as documents from the National Archive in Poznań, Raczyński Library in Poznań and National Museum Archive in Poznań. Based on the available source materials, the author was able to determine that the harpsichord appeared at the Skórzewski family’s palace in Czerniejewo before 1855.


Author(s):  
Altana M. Lidzhieva ◽  

Introduction. The article deals with the early history of Elista as a city, and makes a first attempt to anthropologically compare urban space at the initial stage of the city’s history to its current conditions. Goals. The paper examines the first and key stage in the formation and development of Elista as center of Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast. Materials. The bulk of analyzed sources are documents contained in the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia. Results. The work concludes that the preservation of old buildings to date is a representation of the city’s local memory. As is shown, the preservation of historical architecture proved crucial to such a representation.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edik Minasyan

The work presents a complete scientific research on the history of Yerevan in the period of the Third Republic of Armenia (1991-2018). The analysis of the materials of the RA National Archive, various press and other relevant literature shows the process of the establishment of the RA independent statehood, the socio-political, socio-economic-cultural life of Yerevan, the role of capital in the administrative-political system of the republic, its comprehensive assistance to Artsakh, foreign relations, including sister cities, international organizations and structures. The book is addressed to historians, political scientists, those interested in Yerevan’s history, and wide range of readers in general. (in Armenian).


2021 ◽  
pp. 261-268
Author(s):  
Vadim V. Maiko ◽  

The review considered the next IV Volume of a multi-volume publication: A Code of monuments of history, architecture and culture of the Crimean Tatars, prepared jointly by the Crimean Scientific Center of Sh. Marjani Institute of history of Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Department of History of Fevzi Yakubov “Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University” and the State Hermitage with the involvement of specialists studying the history and archeology of Solkhat. This volume is entirely devoted to the monuments of history, archeology and architecture of Solkhat – Stary Krym and its district of the second half of the XIII-XIX centuries. For the first time in Russian historiography, the most complete list of cultural heritage objects has been collected. All archaeological works were carried out in Solkhat and its district from the second half of the 1920s and up to today. Previously unpublished photographs and drawings are given in the volume. This publication is rightly considered a new stage in the study of this unique historical place of the Crimea.


Author(s):  
Арюна Жамсуевна Бальжурова

В статье рассмотрена коллекция тхангка с образом Вайшраваны (санскр.), или Намсарая (бур.), хранящаяся в фондах Национального музея Республики Бурятия и датируемая XVIII началом ХХ века. Намсарай бог богатства, бодхисаттва и дхармапала, относится к одному из наиболее почитаемых божеств в бурятском буддизме, и его иконография представляет собой сложный собирательный буддийский образ. Анализ данных тхангка позволяет выделить локальные традиции бурятской тхангкописи, отметить отличительные особенности и влияние иноэтнических традиций в разные периоды истории буддийской живописи Бурятии. The focus of the article is a collection of Thangka with the image of Vaishravana (in Sanskrit), or Namsarai (in Buryat), stored in the funds of the National Museum of the Republic of Buryatia and dating from the 18th early 20th centuries. Namsaray is a god of wealth, a Bodhisattva and Dharmapala, one of the most revered deities in Buryat Buddhism, and his iconography is a complex collective Buddhist image. An analysis of these Thangkas allows us to highlight the local traditions of Buryat Buddhist icon painting, to note the distinctive features and influence of foreign ethnic traditions in different periods of the history of Buddhist painting in Buryatia.


Author(s):  
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky

The review is devoted to the second part of the second book Russian Literature and the Arab World (On the History of Arabic-Russian Literary Relations) (2020) by Elmira Abdulkerimovna Ali-Zade (1940-2019), Orientalist, Ph.D. in Philology, and Senior Researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences. It examines the perception of Dostoevsky’s life and works in the Arab countries in the early 20th – early 21st centuries and analyzes the peculiarities of translations of the works by the Russian writer into Arabic.


2018 ◽  
pp. 364-374
Author(s):  
Irina V. Lidgieva ◽  

The article analyses public censure as a source of regulatory activity of the inorodsty (non-Russian indigenous ethnicities) local authorities in the South of Russia in the 19th – early 20th century. Integration of nomadic peoples in the all-Empire legal and economic sphere made provisions for continuation of some common law institutions. Among these were local self-government bodies. Local self-government activities in indigenous societies incorporate practices of representative democracy within the framework of customary and positive law and also interactions between state and society, all of which has much relevance to this day and age. Assembly (skhod) produced public censure that included purview with majority decision. Most sources come from the State archive of Stavropol Region and the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia. General and special scientific research methods assess public censure as a source on the history of the inorodsty in the South of Russia in the 19th – early 20th century. The form of sentence was not fixed by law, and yet content analysis of documentary materials from the State Archive of the Stavropol Region and the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia concludes that it remained unchanged throughout the 19th – early 20th century. Content of public censure allows to reconstruct the spectrum of issues put before the assembly and to classify them by topic: legal, social, and financial and economic. The author concludes that verdicts of the inorodsty societies of the period, as legal acts of local significance and great information value, are one of the main sources on socio-political and socio-economic history of the region.


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