Отечественная история

The article is devoted to the reflection of the officials of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the problem of accumulating “knowledge about the Orient”, bringing them into the system and implementing into political practice. The key source for the analysis was the two issues of the “Materials on the Study of the East” published on the eve and at the beginning of the Great War, the authors and editors of which sought to raise this problem and propose ways to solve it. The question is raised about the role of expert knowledge in determining the strategy of St.

The article for the first time examines in detail the court service of the statesman of the first half of the XVII century, Baim Fedorovich Boltin. At the beginning of his career, he was an Arzamas nobleman. In 1624 he entered the court service, then served for several years as a clerk of the Novgorod’s quarter. He took an active part in court events, embassy meetings. In the last years of Mikhail Romanov’s life, he was a marshal’s assistant and the first judge of the Ministry of Cavalry.

In this article the formation of A. S. Bartenev as a medieval scholar is considered against a broad background of institutional changes and reform of the system of higher education and postgraduate studies in the USSR in the second half of the 1920s – first half of the 1930s. The development of the system of academic training in the field of medieval studies took place under the direct influence of the scholars of the “old” school, who sought to adapt the traditional requirements for qualifying essays to the new conditions.

Complex families are one of the variants of a household that combines several married couples. For a number of reasons, such families enjoyed the support of the state, landlords and the peasant community for a long time. However, after the Great Reforms, complex families began to transform under the influence of socio-economic processes. The article assesses the prevalence of a complex family among the peasant population of the Russian Empire and its changes in the second half of the 19th century.

The article discusses the description of the osteria of Italian cities by Russian travelers of the XVII century – stolnik P. A. Tolstoy and boyar B. P. Sheremetev. Only in the travel notes of stolnik P. A. Tolstoy is a detailed description of the osteria given. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the entries of the travel diaries of Russian travelers of the XVII century and their actual tour contributed to the active penetration of such an institution into the everyday life of Russia. 

The article is devoted to the analysis of the causes of the beginning of the war in Chechnya. The author examines the questions of making policy decisions about the putting into bringing of Russian forces Chechnya, town of Grozny. Special attention is paid to the Chronology of that time and actions of Russian political forces and political forces of Chechnya.