{"title":"The fate of the Polish-Lithuanian szlachta in Russia in the second half of the seventeenth century at the example of Y.E. Katransky","authors":"Yaroslava Martynova","doi":"10.31168/2782-473x.2023.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2782-473x.2023.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"The seventeenth century in Russia became a time of active interaction with the European countries and of the strengthening of the national sovereignty. Foreigners appeared more and more frequently in the service of the Russian tsar. People from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth came to serve the tsar and became a part of the Russian nobility. The nobles (szlachta) joined the ranks of the local officials and successfully served their new homeland. One of them - Y. E. Katransky - participated in the construction of the new fortresses along the Belgorod fortification line, thereby strengthening the defense capability of the Russian state.","PeriodicalId":127790,"journal":{"name":"East Slavic Studies","volume":"293 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135649909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Pan Khalyavsky” of Grigory Kvitka-Osnovianenko as the autobiografical “educational novel”","authors":"Maria Leskinen","doi":"10.31168/2782-473x.2023.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2782-473x.2023.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyses the role of the food code in the Russian-language novel “Pan Khalyavsky” (1839-1840), written by the Ukrainian writer Grigory Kvitka-Osnovianenko. This novel was written as a memoir of the Little-Russian gentry. It has traditionally been regarded as a satire on the rude mores of backward and ignorant provincials - both in the assessments of nineteenth-century critics and in the history of the literature of the Russian Empire. One of the arguments for such a classification was based on the motives of gluttony and food abundance in Khalyavsky’s “memoirs” as an indication of the “earthiness” and narrowness of the characters' interests. The description of festive feasts, everyday meals, libations, etc., is compared to Rabelaisian subjects: they are considered to resemble the culinary discourse and the methods of its embodiment in Gogol’s early works and in the novel “Dead Souls”. The analysis of the food motif associated with the body code in the article, however, shows that it is important for creating an idealised picture of the past, and not only the history of Little Russia. The idyllic “good past” constitutes a social patriarchal utopia, which is opposed by a new society, the enlightened nature of which deprives a person of traditions, spiritual purity and moral harmony.","PeriodicalId":127790,"journal":{"name":"East Slavic Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135649911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About the Ottoman “alternative” in the history of Ukraine in the second half of the seventeenth century","authors":"Boris Floria","doi":"10.31168/2782-473x.2023.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2782-473x.2023.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"The author demonstrates the Ukrainian historians’ points of view on the character of relations between the Ukrainian Hetmanate and the Osman Empire. These views are compared with the evidence in sources about the Ottoman politics toward the Ukrainian lands and the attitude of the Ukrainian population to the Osmans.","PeriodicalId":127790,"journal":{"name":"East Slavic Studies","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135649600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Malorussian Elite Integration into Russian Power Structures in the late-Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries","authors":"S. Lukashova","doi":"10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the ways the representatives of the Malorussian starshyna entered the political elite of Russia in the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which included methods such as the conclusion of marriage unions, amanatstvo and hostage-taking in general, and the recruitment of clergy and graduates of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The article presents an analysis of the similarities and differences in the Russian authorities’ policy towards Malorussia and the eastern outskirts of the Empire and the most promising integration strategies are identified. The most important vector of “Ukrainian influence” should be considered the recruitment of black clergy (monks, hegumens, and archimandrites of the Kiev Metropolitanate) by furthering their career growth. The integration of the Malorussian political elite into the power structures of Russia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was dictated, on the one hand, by the integration and unification trends within the empire: the state specified the scope, direction, and methods of starshyna incorporation, defining the magnitude of permissible social and political changes in the country. On the other hand, this process was supported by a high level of class competition, differentiation, and stratification within the Cossack starshyna.","PeriodicalId":127790,"journal":{"name":"East Slavic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122229926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Level of national self-identification of Belarusians in Latvia in 1918–1940","authors":"Aleksandr Charniauski","doi":"10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"The Belarusian diaspora in interwar Latvia was one of the most active and successful in the world. During this period, diaspora activists participated in the development of the system of Belarusian educational institutions (for example, Society “Baćkaŭščyna” played a leading role in the opening of nearly fifty Belarusian schools), published books and newspapers, founded theatres, conducted ethnographic researches. Belarusian national movement in Latvia was not limited to the creation of cultural and educational organizations: a number of political associations appeared (for example, the Society of Belarusian Voters, the Belarusian Democratic Party), the main purpose of which was to create representation of the Belarusian minority in government agencies. Nevertheless, despite the scale of Belarusians’ activities, the history of the Belarusian minority in this country needs more investigations. That also applies to the issue of the level of national self-identification of local Belarusians. The purpose of this study is to identify the causes and factors that determined the level of self-identification of Latvian Belarusians. Population censuses showed that the number of Belarusians fluctuated significantly. The study examines the possible causes of these fluctuations, the impact of literacy level, cultural and educational initiatives of the Belarusian minority, interethnic relations and other factors.","PeriodicalId":127790,"journal":{"name":"East Slavic Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116539478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Evolution of Relations between State Power and the Nobility in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Russian State in the late Middle Ages","authors":"B. Florya","doi":"10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Russian state had similar structures, but there were at the same time sharp differences in the nature of the relations between the state authorities and members of the nobility in the two states. This article discusses the issue of when exactly this distinction between the two nations arose. The article shows that for the first half of the fifteenth century there was no reason to talk about the existence of fundamental discrepancies between the orders in both states. A sharp turning point in this regard came in the middle of the second half of the fifteenth century, when the possessions of the nobles in the Grand Duchy received extensive tax and judicial immunity (Priviley of 1447), and in the Russian state this immunity was reduced and a local system of conditional noble land ownership associated with the growth of specific areas began to emerge.","PeriodicalId":127790,"journal":{"name":"East Slavic Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122465453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Image of Russia and the Russians on the Pages of the Vilna Belarusian Newspaper “Nasza Niwa” in 1906 and 1907","authors":"V. Korbut","doi":"10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"The publication in 1906, during the First Russian Revolution, in Vilna (Vilnius) of the first newspapers in the Belarusian language “Nasza Dola” and “Nasza Niwa” was a revolutionary event. This marked the beginning of a stable process of the formation of the national identity of the Byelorussian intelligentsia, outside the Polish and Russian national discourses, which took place mainly on the pages of these publications. One of the important factors in the formation of the Byelorussian national identity in this period was the awareness of the differences between Byelorussians and Russians, their understanding of their place in the Russian Empire, which included the Byelorussian lands. Russia and Russians — “other” or “alien”? Russia and Byelorussia — an empire and a region or two different countries? Rasieja, rasiejski, ruski — the names of the state and the people: what was invested in these concepts. The answers to these questions are important for understanding the process of forming the image of Russia and Russians in the ideology of the Byelorussian national movement, which entered an active phase during the First Russian Revolution.","PeriodicalId":127790,"journal":{"name":"East Slavic Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126097188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian Publicist Yevgeny Matrosov and Rusyns in North America","authors":"M. Dronov","doi":"10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the little-known Russian publicist Yevgeny Nikolaevich Matrosov (1860–?) who moved to North America in the 1890s. He is also known under the omnonym Graf Leliva, and has therefore, until recently, sometimes been mistakenly identified as Count Anton Tyshkevich from Lithuania. Matrosov is the author of a number of publicist and artistic works dedicated to “Russian” (Eastern Slavic) immigrants on American soil. At the turn of the twentieth century, Rusyns were the dominant ethnic group among the Eastern Slavs in the United States — such immigrants came from Austria-Hungary, particularly Galicia, Bukovina, and Hungarian Rus'. Little Russians, Belarussians, and especially Great Russians from the neighboring Russian Empire were in the minority. Matrosov’s views do not fit into black-and-white schemes, because, on the one hand, he advocated the national unity of all Eastern Slavs (“Rus'”), and, on the other, he was critical of ignoring the serious specifics of its individual branches. The author of the article makes an attempt to generalize the available information about Matrosov, introduces new sources and raises numerous questions. Both the personality and the literary and publicist heritage of Matrosov require further in-depth study","PeriodicalId":127790,"journal":{"name":"East Slavic Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124442752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The one, almost the only Belarusian”: political biography of Alexander Bakhanovich","authors":"Andrey Charniakevich","doi":"10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.09","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the figure of Alexander Antonovich Bahanovich, a public and political figure from the Grodno region, who entered the history of the Belarusian national movement as an adventurer and an “impostor” who assumed the role of the head of the Belarusian People's Republic. On the other hand, excerpts from his letter to the ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs and latert the member of Russian Political Conference S.D. Sazonov, denouncing “Belarusian nationalists”, have long been used in the public space as an argument in favor of the artificiality of this movement itself.","PeriodicalId":127790,"journal":{"name":"East Slavic Studies","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115172380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Academic Conference “Ukraine and Belarus: Persons & Ideas”","authors":"I. Barinov, Maria E. Klopova, D. Korotkova","doi":"10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2782-473x.2022.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127790,"journal":{"name":"East Slavic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129742292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}