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Монография доктора философии и заведующего кафедрой истории искусств Калифорнийского университета в Риверсайде Кристоффера Невилла была написана в 2019 г. и описывает сложную историю интеграции королевских дворов Дании и Швеции в более широкую культуру раннего Нового времени. Автор утверждает, что «королевские дворы Дании и Швеции были полностью интегрированы в культуру Центральной Европы и играли ведущую роль в более крупном масштабе в период с XVI по XVIII век»1.
‘The biographical turn’ that occurred in historical scholarship at the turn of the twenty-first century transformed the possibilities and scope of historical biography, refining the historian’s toolkit, proposing new principles for selecting personalities, expanding the range of questions, directing the researcher’s focus towards the identification and understanding of ‘individuality,’ introducing interpretative methods into research practice, identifying models and types of biographical studies, etc.
the article is devoted to describing Karelian-specific features of the censuses of 1897 and 1926 by means of comprehensive archival data analysis from the documentary collections of statistical regional operators responsible for the two census campaigns (currently stored in the National Archives of the Republic of Karelia). Both enterprises were meant as the ultimate collection of valuable and most overall inclusive data about the national population. The article shows both the scientific and genealogically oriented potentials of the archival census documents.
21–22 сентября 2023 г. состоялась VI Международная научно-практическая конференция «Архивы и генеалогия», организованная Национальным архивом Республики Карелия. Такие конференции проводятся ежегодно начиная с 2017 г., и каждый раз количество их участников увеличивается, а география докладчиков расширяется.
Merlínusspá is included into the short version of Breta sǫgur which goes back to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) and is preserved in Hauksbók (AM 544 4to). The article argues that the main function of Merlínusspá is not only to narrate war and conflict but also to present British legends with the help of traditional Old Norse themes (feuds, the enmity of kinsmen, the death of all living things) and poetic means (Eddaic meter fornyrðislag, skaldic kviðuháttr, skaldic syntax with interwoven sentences and skaldic phraseology: kennings and heiti.
The Russian Empire’s attempts to solve the ‘Finnish question’ at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries are discussed within the context of the Empire’s national policy, in particular, that pertaining to the Polish and Baltic questions. The author identifies the general policy directions for these three regions, as well as the peculiarities characteristic of the situation in Finland. The author concludes that the policy towards Finland was quite in line with the general trends in the transformation of the empire’s national policy, but at the same time had a number of important special features.
The article deals with key aspects of Halldór Laxness’ Í Austurvegi (In the Baltic) as the writer’s account of his 1932 two-month journey to the Soviet Union in the context of representation of the USSR during the first five-year plan period. The article highlights and analyses the problem of the apparent discrepancy between the description of some aspects of Soviet life and reality. Therefore, it raises the question as to the reasons for this discrepancy and concludes that it was based primarily on the factor of the writer’s personality: the author’s sincere sympathy for communist ideology and his desire to cultivate business contacts with the Soviet authorities accounted for the extremely tendentious description of Soviet realities. The article refutes the opinion that Laxness did not have the opportunity to get acquainted with those aspects of Soviet reality, the description of which could damage the image of the USSR abroad, although the most sensitive of them were out of the writer’s sight.
On the basis of both published and archival documents (materials from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts) the connections between the Jacobites, the Swedish politicians and diplomats, and the Russian tsar Peter the Great in 1716 - early 1717 are investigated. The main channel of the Jacobite influence at the Russian court and personally on Peter I was doctor Robert Erskine, a Scot and a Jacobite. At that time the Swedish court was split into several factions one of which was presented by the king Charles XII’s favorite and virtual Prime Minister baron Georg Heinrich von Görtz, the Swedish ambassador in the Great Britain Carl Gyllenborg, his brother and the secretary of Görtz Gustav Gyllenborg, and the Swedish ambassador Erik Sparre. They tried to end the Great Northern War, make peace with Russia and use it in Jacobite projects of overthrowing king George I from the British throne. Peter I used the Jacobites and, on the other hand, von Görtz’s Swedish supporters in his own interests to create a diplomatic channel to negotiate with Charles XII in order to finish the war which was exhausting for Russia.
The article deals with a poorly researched aspect of the history of the Olonets ‘New Model’ regiments (1649-1666) - the phenomenon of mass desertion of soldiers and dragoons. On the basis of archival and published sources, the author analyses the dynamics of desertion and examines the quantitative data on runaway soldiers. The main reasons for soldiers’ escapes are also considered as the principal conditions for mass desertion.
Дорогие читатели, наши надежды на скорое возвращение к плодотворному международному научному сотрудничеству не сбылись и лишь продолжают таять. Этот выпуск выходит с совсем поредевшей редакцией — от сотрудничества с ПетрГУ отказались почти все зарубежные коллеги. Нам понятен их выбор, мы все заложники сложившейся ситуации и вынуждены подчиняться решениям властей своих стран, вызванным острым политическим противостоянием в мире. Тем не менее мы считаем необходимым в этих нелегких условиях продолжать работу по поддержанию отечественной нордистики, развитию научных исследований в области истории, экономики, культуры, политики, международных отношений стран североевропейского и балтийского регионов. Иначе в будущем, в мирное время, которое в конце концов наступит, придется начинать всё заново. Потеря научных школ так же губительна для успешного развития человечества, как и военные операции.
3 марта 2022 г. на 90-м году ушел из жизни Лев Вальтерович Суни, советский и российский историк, доктор исторических наук, профессор Петрозаводского университета, специалист по истории Финляндии, российско-финляндских отношений.