scholarly journals Women’s Social Memory of Daily Life through Diaries (1951–1969) of a Female Dweller of Stalingrad (Volgograd)

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
И.В. Богдашина
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Volgograd Region ◽  
Archival Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

Дневники хирурга Зинаиды Сергеевны Седельниковой хранятся в Государственном архиве Волгоградской области в коллекции документов медицинских работников и являются редким архивным источником по истории женского нестоличного быта и повседневности. Автор очень бережно относилась к дневникам, которые вела с 1933 по 2004 год, разделив их на 179 тетрадей. Область наших научных интересов представляют дневниковые записи, сделанные в период с 1951 по 1969год (тетради № 35–85) и охватывающие события города Волгограда (Сталинграда). Основным содержанием дневниковых записей являются заметки с описанием повседневной жизни и окружающей обстановки, особое внимание уделяется эпизодам бытового характера: обеспечение продовольственными и непродовольственными товарами, жилищные условия, внутрисемейные отношения и досуговые занятия. Особенности дневника состоят не только в авторских записях, но и вложенных и вклеенных фотографиях, вырезках из газет и календарей, телеграмм, писем, театральных буклетов, билетов на мероприятия, лоскутков тканей и гербариев цветов. Благодаря наличию такого редкого источника личного происхождения, мы имеем возможность воссоздать картину повседневного быта нестоличного региона через призму женского восприятия. The State Archive of the Volgograd Region stores diaries of a surgeon Zinaida Sergeyevna Sedelnikova. The diaries are part of the collection of documents of healthcare workers and are a rare archival source that can shed light on the history of everyday life as viewed by women living far from the capital. The author of the diaries treated them with meticulous care and completed 179 notebooks, her first diary was written in 1933, her last diary was completed in 2004. Our research investigates diary entries written in 1951–1969 (notebooks 35–85) and describing events witnessed by the author in the city of Volgograd (Stalingrad). The analyzed diary entries focus on everyday life, they describe the environment in which the author lived and treat some daily routines: provision of food and non-food products, accommodation, family relationships, and leisure activities. The diaries do not only contain the authors’ memories, they also include numerous photographs, newspaper clippings and calendar sheets, telegrams, letters, theatre booklets, tickets for events, pieces of fabric, dried flowers. This unique and rare document enables us to clearly visualize everyday life and daily routines through the eyes of a woman living far from the capital.

scholarly journals Female everyday life in letters by a Karelian peasant woman of the early XX century

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-393
Author(s):  
Olga P. Ilyukha
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Rare Type ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
National Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gender Factor ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Principal Method

Introduction. The article reports the results of an analysis of the letters written by a peasant early in the XX century, found in the National Archives of Finland, which are a rare-type of historical source. Their author is a twenty-year-old peasant Anna Eremeeva-Räikha, who wrote them to her husband exiled to North Kazakhstan. The relevance of the study is defined by high interest to epistolary cultural heritage, where a special place is given to the letters of Russian’s different ethnic groups, and also by attention paid to the history of everyday life. Materials and Methods. The principal method was analysis of the structure of the letters, including identification of thematic block sequences and their subsequent clustering for the analysis of specific issues. Results and Discussion. The article explicates the substantive dimension of the letters, which reflects the sphere of interests of their author, and looks into the descriptions of women’s daily routines and the life of the Karelian family. It highlights the range of covered subjects and outlines the topics showing the routines and the behavioral practices of a peasant woman, her ways of adapting to the new circumstances after the husband’s arrest. The specific jobs and occupations are aligned with the farming calendar of northern Karelia. Features of the author’s self-presentation, ways of structuring and drawing up the texts are demonstrated. The study illustrates the range of topics and emotions rooted in the gender factor, and the diversity of their expression. Conclusion. The letters disclose the system of moral values of a Karelian woman, the Christian ideal of family relationships, special features of professional motivations. The “voice” of a Karelian peasant woman retained in these letters is a relevant source for studying the alteration of women’s everyday life early in the XX century and it allows talking about the maturing demand for emancipation in everyday life and gradual loosening of the traditional gender order in the Karelian village.

Population of Chernigov in the 10th–13th Centuries According to Paleodemographic Data

Epohi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yurii Dolzhenko ◽  
◽  
Anna Tarasova
Keyword(s):  
Life Quality ◽  
Demographic Structure ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Average Life Expectancy ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Different Parts

The work is devoted to the 10th–13th-century paleodemographic data regarding the city of Chernigov and its districts, and to their introduction into the scientific domain. The study is based on the data on the anthropological series of Chernigov in the 10th–13th centuries, divided into three samples according to the topographic principle. This series is characterized by a low average life expectancy in comparison to other southern Old Rus cities. The feature of the necropolises of Chernigov indicating the predominance of female burials over male ones, revealed in the 1980s, has been confirmed at a new level. A study of the demographic parameters of the Chernigov population groups in the 10th–13th centuries, united on a territorial basis, has shown differences in their structure, probably reflecting the peculiarities of the life quality, social status, and professional specialization of the population of different parts of the city. Further research into the remains of the city’s population with methods of paleopathology, osteometry, osteoscopy, radiology, etc., as well as the analysis of aspects of the political history of the region, would help shed light on the possible causes of the identified features of the demographic structure of the population in the pre-Mongolian period.

The originality of the “estate topos” in the A.N. Tolstoy’s novel “Peter the First”

2020 ◽  
pp. 262-272
Author(s):  
Anna S. Akimova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
Research History ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Peasant Household ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Poor Peasant ◽  
The City

Moscow is the city which united the characters of A.N. Tolstoy’s novel “Peter the First”. Kitay-Gorod is the space where the action of the first book is mainly set. In the novel Tolstoy showed in great detail the everyday life of the city and its inhabi- tants. According to the I.E. Zabelin’s research (“History of the city of Moscow”) in late 17 — early 18 th centuries Moscow was like a big village that is why Tolstoy relied on his childhood memories about the life in the small village Sosnovka (Samara Region) describing the streets of Moscow. The novel begins with the description of a poor peasant household of Brovkin near Moscow, then Volkov’s noble estate is depicted and Menshikov’s house. The space of the city is expanding with each new “address”. Moscow estates, and in particular, connected with the figure of “guardian, lover of the Princess-ruler” V.V. Golitsyn, in Tolstoy’s novel are inextricably linked with the character’s living and with the life of the country. The description of the palace built by Golitsyn at the peak of his career is based on the Sergei Solovyov’s “History of Russia in ancient times”. Golitsyn left it and went to his estate outside Moscow Medvedkovo and from there in exile.

scholarly journals Review of the Monograph: Sizov S.G. The White Capital of Russia: Everyday Life of Omsk (June 1918 – November 1919). Omsk, SibADI Publ., 2018. 240 p

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3 (27)) ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
Mikhail V. Shilovsky
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Detailed Picture

The review provides a detailed analysis of the research of doctor of science S.G. Sizov, dedicated to the daily life of Omsk during the Civil war. It is noted that the author, using archival materials and a large volume of various periodicals, was able to give a detailed picture of everyday life in Omsk during one of the most difficult periods in the history of Russia in the twentieth century, when the city became the White capital of Russia. Despite some omissions, according to the reviewer, the monograph makes a valuable contribution to the study of everyday life not only in Omsk, but throughout Russia during the social cataclysm of 1917-1920.

scholarly journals Children’s Memories of the Leningrad Blockade in the Materials of the Central State Archive of the Udmurt Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-269
Author(s):  
Sergey N. Uvarov
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Central State ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Udmurt Republic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The City

The article offers the previously unpublished memoirs of eleven Leningrad residents who were children during the German blockade of the city. All of them were collected in 1998-1999 by Nina Aleksandrovna Koroleva, and are today kept in her collection in the Central State Archive of the Udmurt Republic. After the war, Nina Aleksandrovna came to live in Udmurtia, where she started to record memories about wartime. Conventionally, her documents can be divided into two groups. The first includes the memories of those who were evacuated to Udmurtia during the Great Patriotic War. The second group consists of memories of those who ended up in the republic after the end of the war. All documents are preserved in the author's edition. The memoirs reflect childhood impressions of the siege period. Their authors share their feelings from the beginning of the blockade, and report details of their daily life during the siege; they also reveal the coping strategies of the respective families. Descriptions of the labor conducted by children invite for conclusions about their contribution to the Soviet victory. Very emotional are the reports about the lifting of the blockade. Some memoirs contain details of the evacuation from Leningrad to the mainland. From the perspective of the history of everyday life, the publication of these memoirs expands our knowledge about the Great Patriotic War and, in particular, about the blockade of Leningrad.

scholarly journals Landscape archaeology and urbanism at Meninx: results of geophysical prospection on Jerba (2015)

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 357-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Ritter ◽  
Sami Ben Tahar ◽  
Jörg W. E. Fassbinder ◽  
Lena Lambers
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Landscape Archaeology ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Production ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Geophysical Prospection

This paper presents the results of the geophysical prospection conducted at the site of Meninx (Jerba) in 2015. This was the first step in a Tunisian-German project (a cooperation between the Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunis, and the Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München), the aim of which is to shed light on the urban history of the most important city on the island of Jerba in antiquity.Meninx, situated on the SE shore of the island (fig. 1), was the largest city on Jerba during the Roman Empire and eponymous for the island's name in antiquity. The outstanding importance of this seaport derived from the fact that it was one of the main production centers of purple dye in the Mediterranean. With the earliest secure evidence dating to at least the Hellenistic period, Meninx saw a magnificent expansion in the 2nd and 3rd c. A.D. It was inhabited until the 7th c. when the city was finally abandoned.

Time Off: Entertainment, Games and Pass Times in Palestine between the End of the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Cristiana Baldazzi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Free Time ◽  
British Mandate ◽  
History Of

In this article I would like to provide a little piece of the mosaic of everyday life in Palestine by analyzing some of the places and types of free time in the area between Nablus and Jerusalem in the period between the end of the Ottoman Empire and the beginning of the British Mandate. In particular the paper considers both the games and pastimes in vogue among the men of the so-called middle class, and forms of recreation practiced by women, and it provides an overview of the most popular leisure activities among children, for both boys and girls. The reconstruction of these “fragments of life,” through the “history” of the memoirs (Palestinian diaries and autobiographies) provides a picture of Palestine at that time which is in many respects unusual and not at all static. There are already clearly perceptible elements of discontinuity, change and modernity which penetrate everyday life under the influence of factors which are internal as well as external.

scholarly journals THE DAILY LIFE OF THE PEASANTRY OF EASTERN GALICIA IN 1941-1944

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
V. Starka
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Archival Source ◽  
Red Army ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Adequate Coverage

The author analyzed the daily life of the rural population of the eastern Galicia during the Nazi occupation relying on archival source materials of the periodical press and the previous achievements of historians. It is that today, despite a considerable number of works on the history of the second world war, this subject has not received adequate coverage in the national historiography. The majority of researchers are turning to the study of macro-historical topics. Instead, the study of history "from below" allows historians and society to learn the mechanisms of adaptation of the ordinary people to life in difficult socio-political conditions. The peasants of Galicia with the outbreak of German-Soviet war had hoped to improve the conditions of life and their political leaders – to proclaim an independent Ukrainian State. At the same time, the policy of the German occupiers no different from their predecessors – Bolsheviks. Farmers, deprived of political rights, pay significant taxes, performed a variety of duties while in the atmosphere of constant fear for their own lives. At the same time, gradually adapting to the conditions of the new political regime, people have managed to establish domestic economic life, to organize their own live, to arrange training of their children, leisure activities, etc. The libation of the eastern Galicia by the Red Army meant for local residents not desired freedom but return to life in the face of Soviet totalitarian reality.

scholarly journals G. B. Morgagni Among Human Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Mummiology. The Beatification of Gregorio Barbarigo of Padua

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Silvia Marinozzi ◽  
Marco Cilione ◽  
Valentina Gazzaniga
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Forensic Medicine ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Medical Examiner ◽  
Human Pathology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forensic Expert ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

The article is the first step of a research project aimed at investigating new perspectives and aspects of Morgagni’s role and work. His activities as a medical examiner and forensic doctor are yet to be truly discovered. Manuscripts, written by Morgagni when he was a forensic expert for the Health Magistrate of Venice, currently preserved at the City Library in Forlì (Italy), shed light on a new aspect of his cultural background. As a forensic doctor, he also helped push an increase in “social medicine” in Italy, when physicians began to collaborate with the administrative and political institutions in order to plan environmental and urban regulations to control air quality. While reading his reports, his contribution to the primordial medical Hygiene and Public Health emerges. Among his reports, the authors focused on the one concerning the Beatification of Gregorio Barbarigo, which clearly highlights his pathological approach, as well as his knowledge and application of embalming systems and mummiology. Moreover, this report could be considered as an issue in the history of paleopathology.

scholarly journals EARLY STAGES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE KASHKADARYA OASIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (07) ◽  
pp. 26-33
Author(s):  
Nilufar Rajabova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Written Sources

The article analyzes the first stages of studying the archaeological sites of the Kashkadarya oasis from a historical point of view. Beginning in the 18th century, Europeans began to record information about the Kashkadarya oasis. Their main focus is on highlighting the lifestyle of the population, as well as information on historical monuments. In particular, in memoirs, reports and brochures, A. Burns, N. Khannykov, V.V. Bartold, N. Maev, V. Krestovsky, B. Litvinov, D. Logofet, A. Validov, I. Kastane, L. Zimin, you can get a lot of information on this topic. Despite this, the first studies were mostly brief. Most importantly, the attention of architects and art critics is focused on the history of architectural structures in Shakhrisabz, built during the reign of Amir Temur and the Temurids. However, attempts to shed light on the history of the cities of Karshi and Shakhrisabz based on written sources consisted in a collection of the first archaeological observations, historical artifacts and manuscripts. Noteworthy is the information written by N. Khannykov, V.V. Bartold, N. Mayev. Subsequent studies also made extensive use of their memoirs. B. Litvinov's information about the Kashkadarya oasis was supplemented by his drawings. According to Logofet, the history of the city of Shakhrisabz is emphasized, and archaeological excavations show that its history goes back two thousand years. Logofet pays great attention to the medieval history of Karshi, cites various historical sources. It is important for I.Kastana and L.Zimin to describe the archaeological monuments preserved in the vicinity of Karshi from the point of view of that period and compare them on the basis of ancient and medieval written sources.

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