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The article is devoted to the investigation of western researchers’ views on the extent and causes of the famine 1921–1922 in the Volga region. It also takes into consideration their assessments of the factors that prompted the Soviet government to apply Western countries for humanitarian aid.

A short review of publicistic works of Charles de Mazade on Russia and Russian publicists’ and public figures’ comments is given in the article. On the basis of the journalist’s theses and phrases, a characteristic of his works is given: political views, his expectations and opinions on certain ideological companions and opponents. In the article the conclusion about a strong influence of de Mazade’d works on the Russian society is reached, the dynamics of his views on politics and social life is mentioned.

The article is devoted to the problem for studying some questions of the actual gender history, such as the peculiarity of the woman’s description and her behavior inside the public and private life on the basis of the material of G. Chaucer’s (English poet of the XIV’th century) poem, which «The Legend of good women» is. Today this source is weakly studied in the Russian historiography. A woman is described in three points of view: as a personality, a ruler and a wife.

The article considers the ethnical situation in remote regions of Eastern Europe at the edge of Antiquity and Middle Ages as it was reflected in Jordan’s Getica. It shows limits and capabilities of traditional philological and historical analysis of this source. The most doubtful are the ethnonyms mentioned in the list after Merens (‘Merya’), Mordens (‘Mordva’) и Imniskaris (‘Cheremis’). The author demonstrates capabilities of a new approach to the problem with the use of archaeological data.

The article is about slavery in the early medieval England, a problem poorly discussed by Russian scholars. Slave’s legal status and capacity are under consideration. The author draws a conclusion that slaves in the Anglo-Saxon society possessed a certain degree of the legal capacity though diminished by comparison to that of the freemen. Slaves bore responsibility for their misdeeds, could have a family and own a property.

Productive forces placement in Spain in XX c. made the country dependent on the control of the basic naval communications bordering the aquatorium. Military revolt, which broke out in 1936, made the situation even worse. However, it gave the Republic the opportunity to achieve sea superiority. Several failures of the Republican fleet during the first months of the Civil War and government policy of Madrid led to the sea blockade.

This article is the analysis of the views of German philosopher IA Fessler on the French Revolution. The author analyzes the assessments which Fessler gives to the goals of the revolution, the actions of the revolutionary parliaments, and to the role of the masses. On the example of Fessler, the attitude of conservative German-speaking intellectual elite to the French political experience is examined.

The article describes the tradition of studying Moravian cities in native Slavonic studies and concludes the necessity of further researching this issue.

This article deals with one manuscript in the archive of The State Hermitage museum. It is entitled “Catalogo della cospicua collezione de’Vasi antichi Italo-greci, de’ vetri, delle terre cotte e de’ bronzi di proprieta del Sig. Cav. Pizzati”. The piece has been written ca 1833 by the outstanding Neapolitan antiquarian and connoisseur Raffaele Gargiulo. The author of present article considers the entries on the Corinthian and Italo-Corinthian vases.