{"title":"Folk Art Crafts of Russia and ‘Russian Souvenir’","authors":"T. V. Belko, K. N. Saushkina","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-67-252-263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-67-252-263","url":null,"abstract":"Folk arts and crafts are part of the national heritage of Russia, a recognized contribution of Russia to world culture. The preservation, revival and development of folk arts and crafts always remain a topical topic of scientific research and the practice of developing souvenir products in the modern world. The paper presents the results of research on Russian folk arts and crafts: classification models have been developed including both text and illustrative materials, taking into account the geographical location of the centers of production of traditional crafts and materials used in the production, processing techniques and decoration of products. The study comes up with the results of testing the method of structural and graphic analysis of the folk art products based on the study of historical experience and the current level of souvenir production in Russia and abroad. It involves the design project “Souvenir from Russia”, which includes a series of wooden spoons: “Cyrillic” (based on the font graphics of Cyrillic writing), “Splint” (fragmentation of splint paintings and characters), “Ivanovo calico” (based on the plot ornaments of fabrics), “Khokhloma” (fragmentation of pictorial motifs and Cyrillic fontography).","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86041047","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 Role of Internet Communication in Consolidation of the Russian-Speaking Community in Brazil","authors":"S. Ryazantsev, E. Pismennaya, Yulia E. Pletneva","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-67-21-34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-67-21-34","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet is becoming one of the main platforms for communication, as well as an important source of information for people. It has a special role for migrants, since Internet communication can cover large geographical distances. The purpose of this study was to identify the features of the internet communication of the Russian-speaking youth abroad using the example of Brazil. Particular attention is paid to identifying the most popular Internet sites and the most relevant discussion questions. The results of an anonymous survey of Russian-speaking youth in Brazil act as the empirical basis of the study. The study showed that Internet communication plays an important role in strengthening communication within the Russian-speaking community and preserving common cultural values. Interestingly, there is a significant difference in how internet communication is perceived by those born in Brazil, and those who were born in Russia (USSR) and are a migrant in the first generation. The Internet acts here as a unique platform allowing these two groups of compatriots to interact and communicate. On the one hand, there is an exchange of experience and useful information about the host country, which can significantly facilitate adaptation for newly arrived migrants. On the other hand, they, in turn, give the “Russian Brazilians” an opportunity to get information about Russia, stimulate the interest in Russian language and culture. According to the results of the study, the compatriots who were born in Brazil were more interested in maintaining ties with their historical homeland.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73483954","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":"Museum as a Socio-cultural Institute for the Development of Man and Society","authors":"T. Rostovskaya, A. M. Egorychev, S. Gulyaev","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-67-202-215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-67-202-215","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with issues related to the phenomenon of the museum as a socio-cultural institution for the development of man and society. We are talking about the analysis of the nature of collecting, the meanings and values that a person finds when it is necessary to determine the purpose of the existence of himself and his being world, as well as issues affecting the evolution of the birth, formation and development of the museum phenomenon in the human community, its role in the shaping of a reasonable, cultural and spiritual person. The most diverse samples of culture (paintings, sculptures, household items, etc.), created by creative artists, representatives of different national communities, carry a huge educational potential, stimulating the development of the mind, feelings and spiritual qualities of a person, introduce him to the world of beauty. In the aggregate with other social institutions of society (education, family, leisure, etc.), the world of museums constitutes the socio-cultural space of the human being's world, the existence of the whole society, which implements the function of not only preserving the ethical foundations of society, but also its development. The entire multi-thousand-year history of mankind carries in its historical memory the desire to understand the beauty of the surrounding world, to create and preserve such works of culture that may compete with nature itself in their beauty. This desire quite naturally gave rise to the cult of collecting beautiful samples of culture, preserving them and, ultimately, putting them on public display. This is how the birth, formation and development of the museum as a socio-cultural institute of world civilization took place. It is the museum as a social institution that carries a huge historical memory of the creator, intelligent, cultural and spiritual man.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83761304","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 a ‘Tree-cow’ in Slavic Folk Culture","authors":"Svetlana D. Sinchuk","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-73-89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-73-89","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the hypothesis that there was once a figurative-semantic identification of a cow / bull and a tree in the Slavic folk culture. The analysis of such identification is carried out taking into account the peculiarities of the pagan worldview. Images of horned animals are rarely found in Slavic decorative and applied art, since horns have acquired a negative meaning in the context of the Christian religion. Therefore, traces of such archaic views should be sought using appropriate data from folklore, linguistics, and ethnography. Also, in the process of searching, it is necessary to go beyond the Slavic world and turn to the traditional cultures of the peoples neighboring the Slavs in the north and northeast; since their Christianization was carried out at a much later time, the remnants of their pagan cults have come down to us in greater safety. The origin of the figurative-semantic connection between the concepts of “cow / bull” and “tree” is explained by the fact that these animals, like the world tree, acted once as cosmological symbols. This explains the interchangeability of their images, observed in folklore and in ritual practice, as well as the genesis of a number of homonyms and words of the same root, existing in the Russian dialect vocabulary, united by the corresponding theme.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"13 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":"135710653","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":"Poetry of Fact in the Tale and Story… How Did God Get Rid of Evil and Fierce Heretic Grishka Otrepev from the manuscript compilation of T. F. Bolshakov Collection","authors":"Olga A. Tufanova","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-300-311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-300-311","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the fragment Tale and Story… How Did God Get Rid of Evil and Fierce Heretic Grishka Otrepev from the manuscript narrative compilation of T. F. Bolshakov collection. The widespread edition of the monument was already known to N. M. Karamzin and published in Readings in the Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities, a brief edition, allegedly authored by clerk Vasily Sukov, published in the 13th volume of Russian Historical Library. In the handwritten collection, the text under study is an unfinished fragment and covers the events from 1584 to 1603. The main attention is paid to the deeds of Boris Godunov. The specificity of presentation of historical material in the Tale ... testifies to the author’s inclination towards the style of chronicle weather records. The absence of transcendental explanations of the causes of what is happening in the world of people, laconism in the presentation of events, documentary protocol, minimal use of figurative and expressive means indicate that the author deliberately abandoned the artistic techniques traditional for Russian medieval literature, putting the poetry of fact at the head. Many contemporaries of the events of Time of Troubles, declaring the principle of plausibility, sought to fit contemporary events into the context of world history in traditional literary ways. In the text, we are dealing with other principles for creating a historical narrative, when the facts speak for itselves, and its selection (in the absence of commentary) indirectly indicates the author’s assessment of an event or period in the country’s history. Perhaps the non-standard presentation of historical events and persons was one of the reasons why the text was not completed in the collection under consideration.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"61 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":"135710654","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}
Lubov G. Ganina, Elena L. Madlevskaya, Aleksandr B. Ostrovskii
{"title":"‘Biblical Images in the Traditional Culture of the Orthodox Peoples of Russia’: Exhibition of the Russian Museum of Ethnography for the 520th Anniversary The Gennady Bible (January — March 2021)","authors":"Lubov G. Ganina, Elena L. Madlevskaya, Aleksandr B. Ostrovskii","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-145-167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-145-167","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reveals the intention and its implementing through a museum exhibition. Based on thematically selected monuments of traditional and everyday culture, the exhibition touches on events, images of Christian historical memory. First of all, it is Annunciation, Christmas, Crucifixion and Resurrection, as well as a number of Old Testament stories — the Creation of the World, Noah's Ark, the Judgment of Solomon. The various thematic sections of the exhibition depict such significant images as the paradise tree of life, the lion, the archangels, as well as fish — the early Christian symbol of Jesus Christ, grapes (the symbol of the Church of Christ). The presented groups of objects are diverse in their place in folk life: ritual paraphernalia, nativity scene, house carvings, interior decoration items— ceramic products (plates, tiles), wooden painted utensils, woven and embroidered towels, decorative bone products, jewelry of the Eastern Slavs and Finno-Ugric peoples. The selecting of exhibits took into account that the ornamentation of objects of traditional and everyday culture had its source not always directly from the plots set forth in biblical texts, but also their folklore processing in the form of legends, beliefs; a number of sections display apocryphal Christian texts that were widespread among the people. The exhibition gave an idea of the integration of a number of key biblical subjects and images, especially the New Testament, into the worldview of Orthodox peoples. The fixation of certain images for specific categories of objects that had a specific purpose in everyday life created a single visible fabric of national Orthodoxy.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"61 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":"135710857","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":"Olga Bergholz in the Literary Field: Path to the Legitimation of Status","authors":"Natalia A. Prozorova","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-312-325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-312-325","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines the position of O. F. Bergholz in the literary field of the 1930s and the struggle for legitimization of the status of the Leningrad poet in the early 1940s. The purpose of the paper is to determine the place of the poetess in the literary process of the 1930s and to identify the factors (dispositions) that contributed to her successful creative realization during wartime. In the 1930s, despite the «consecration» of M. Gorky, of Bergholz's first books, she became an object of attacks and repression: she was in a situation of alienation from the writer's environment due to the “Averbach case”, and spent six-month in prison isolation following trumped-up charges of counterrevolutionary activity. It was not that Bergholz fought for a strong position in literary field, but for the mere survival in it. After the repressions and prison, the theme of human suffering came into focus of the poetess's attention; she came to be inclined to view the blockade hardships of Leningrad residents. Bergholz's habitus, her author's strategy aimed at “helping people mentally”, correlated with the tasks of wartime. The reader's expectations for support not by the “poetry of conditional formulas”, but by a simple and “relieving” word coincided with Bergholz's aesthetics. The blockade texts moved her from the periphery of the literary field to its forefront. The poetess expressed the joint traumatic experience in a form of “letters” and “conversations” with a lively, personal intonation; let the Leningrad theme manifested in a new style (“barely poems”); opened readers` eyes on “themselves”; she conveyed the existential experience of a person on the verge of death and saw the heroism of the Leningraders as a psychological issue (how to escape “dehumanizing”). These factors allowed her to achieve the legitimate status of the besieged Leningrad`s poetess.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"538 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":"135710862","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":"‘Annihilating All That’s Made / Reducing to a Green Thought in a Green Shade’: Allusions from Metaphysical Poets in the English ‘Estate Text’ of the 20th – 21st Centuries (M. Gatty, J. H. Ewing, K. Grahame, F. H. Burnett et al.)","authors":"Georgy A. Veligorsky","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-257-267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-257-267","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the influence of English metaphysical poets of the 16th – 17th centuries (A. Marvell, G. Vaughan, T. Traherne, J. Herbert) on the children’s “estate” novel of the Victorian era. The author conducts analysis for what purpose the children’s writers (M. Gatty, J. H. Ewing et al.) introduce the appropriate intertext into their novels and stories (to emphasize the unsteadiness of the world; to create “volatile” nostalgic images; depicting the estate as an earthly paradise, etc.). The study discusses the quotes they use (both as epigraphs and inclusions in the fabric of the narrative), as well as considers how these ideas were perceived by English “estate” authors of the 20th century (K. Grahame, F. H. Burnett, Ph. Pearce, et al.). The paper pays special attention to the novel “Under the Salisbury Spire” by E. Marshall, the first novel for children, where a poet, a representative of the “metaphysical school”, is introduced as one of the main characters. The research also touches upon the reception of metaphysical works in Russian literature of the middle of the 20th century, associated with the estate theme (works by A. A. Akhmatova, V. V. Nabokov, N. A. Zabolotsky, et al.).","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"44 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":"135710879","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":"Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of the Old Russian Literature of the 11–12 Centuries (Philosophical and Cultural Essay Experience)","authors":"Evgenia V. Mutovkina","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-67-112-120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-67-112-120","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the study is to consider Old Russian literature of the XI–XII centuries within the context of Russian culture, which is of lasting significance. The main tasks are to comprehend high spirituality, patriotic love, and Christian universalism, as well as to identify the spiritual and moral dimensions of Old Russian literature. Mental constructions are embodied in the diversity of cultural creations, and their objective, comprehensive analysis requires involvement of not only verbal, but also non-verbal monuments. The attraction to a lively vivid word, a special interest in moral, historical subjects may be considered as certain advantages, because they raised the philosophical significance of culture as a whole and were addressed to the most topical issues of historical life. Following the development of Russian philosophical thought of the 11–12 centuries, we can trace the process of its gradual formation and the development of sustainable traditions. In the Old Russian milieu, certain notions about the development of world and domestic thought are being formed, and what can be called historical and philosophical knowledge is arising. A lot of research by historians, philosophers, and art historians addressed the relations of old Russian culture with Russian culture of 17–20 centuries. One of the vital tasks of modern Russian philosophical thought is the recognition of its unity with the more than a thousand-year-old tree of Russian culture, the development of those enduring values that were created by our people over many centuries of their constant creative work.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83952969","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":"Cultural Potential as a Symbolic Basis of the Memorialization of Heritage Objects in the Space of a Russian Industrial City (by the Example of the City of Novotroitsk, Orenburg Region","authors":"Vladimir A. Rubin, M. Shub, E. Spiridonova","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-68-104-117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-68-104-117","url":null,"abstract":"The relevance of this paper is related to the search for ways and effective methods to ensure the preservation of objects of material cultural heritage of Russia, which is confirmed by the adoption in 2020 of a new Article 67.1 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the protection of historical truth, continuity in the development of the Russian state during the millennial history, as well as the proclamation of 2022 — the Year of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia. The research`s aim is a comprehensive study of the cultural potential of the heritage object as a symbolic basis for its memorialization in the space of the Russian industrial city of the Soviet era. Taking into account the broad perspectives of the study of the phenomenon of “historical monument”, the authors consider the issue through the prism of value-normative, activity-based, symbolic and semiotic approaches to culture, concepts of historical memory and “places of memory”. Russian industrial cities have a unique culture, whose creators preserve and popularize the traditions of professional communities. In many of them, a historical and cultural landscape has been formed for a long time, indicating the possibility of identifying historical ensembles (industrial quarters, individual enterprises) and even entire historical settlements. However, this process requires a clear definition of the memorial value and is understudied so far. In this regard, the authors analyze the potential of cultural institutions of industrial centers that have accumulated solid socio-cultural experience as a basis for memorializing real estate objects, identifying new architectural monuments in the space of industrial centers of the Southern Urals. The study (state historical and cultural expertise) conducted in 2021 in relation to the Palace of Culture of Metallurgists in Novotroitsk, Orenburg region served as the paper`s empirical basis. The results obtained are implemented into the activities of the Orenburg region`s Government. The main results are to substantiate the expediency of using a broad methodological basis for the study of the cultural capital of a real estate object as a basis for its acceptance for state protection as a monument and to prove that cultural potential may act as a symbolic basis for the memorialization of a heritage object.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82355919","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}