Struggle of the Serbs in Austria against the union with the Catholic Church in the 18th century
... the inhabitants of the cities greatly resisted the union while, while the Orthodox bishops showed a tendency to compromise with the authorities. In the struggle against the union, the Serbs tried to apply for the support of the largest Orthodox power. Russia, for its part, provided assistance to the Serbs, and its volume was largely determined by the position and personal views on the "Serbian issue" of the Russian ambassadors in Vienna. In conclusion, it is emphasized that thanks to ...
The role of N. A. Sultan-Krym-Girei in the development of the Sokolsky movement in the Russian Empire
The activities of Russian and Crimean state and public figure N. A. Sultan-Krym-Girei in the development of the Sokols’ sports and gymnastics movement in Russia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries have been studied. It was established that N. A. Sultan-Krym-Girei’s development as a specialist in gymnastics took place during his education and military service in the Lithuanian Life ...
An analysis of climate continentality index for Russia's NorthEast
... climate continentality is a powerful tool for studying and forecasting weather. Considering the continentality index enables determining current climate characteristics and predicting potential changes. This study aims to assess climate change in Russia’s North-East by analysing the continentality index as a complex integral indicator of these changes applicable to vast territories.
Although there are many methods for assessing climate continentality, there is no universal methodology. ...
The Relationship Between the Individual and the Collective in the Social Philosophy of Georges Gurvitch
The relationship between the individual and society is the leitmotif of Georges Gurvitch’s work. Beginning from the early Russian-language books on the philosophy of law and ending with the works on sociology published in France and the USA at the final stage of his career, Gurvitch studied the individual person and collective units as interacting sides of the collective social subject. He sought to overcome the struggle between individualism and collectivism which found its ideological expression...
Semyon Frank and Yakov Golosovker: On Kantian Motives in the Works of Dostoyevsky
Russian philosophy is “a sphere of conversation” in which thought is “divined”. It is a realm of search for “universal meaning” and “cultivation” of historical reality. Such a “conversation” around the work of Dostoyevsky took place in the 1920s among philosophers (including members of the Free Philosophical Association or Volfila in its abbreviated form). The theme takes on added significance at the hands of Ya. E. Golosovker and S. L. Frank whose intellectual affinity manifests itself today in...
Translation as a journey through possible and impossible worlds
In this paper, translation is examined from the perspective of the semantics of possible worlds. The consequences of this viewpoint are explored, particularly in relation to the metaphor of traveling through possible and impossible worlds in translation practice. Special attention is given to cases where there are disparities between the world of the original text and the world of the translated text. For example, in the case of French subjunctive forms, which are grammatically mandatory in the original...
The image of Ekaterinoslav as an unrealized potentiality in Russian travelogues of the late 18th — 19th centuries
The paper examines the representation of Ekaterinoslav’s urban space based on twenty-two Russian travelogues of the late 18
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centuries (texts by Ivan Ya. Akinfiev, Alexander S. Afanasyev, Pavel A. Bibikov, Ivan F. Vernet, Fyodor F. Vigel, Alexander F. Voeikov, Nikolai S. Vsevolozhsky, Karl I. Hablitz, Ivan M. Dolgoruky, Mikhail P. Zhdanov, Konstantin P. Zhukov, Vasily A. Zhukovsky, Iakov I. Vecherkov, Lev Z. Kuntsevich, Nikolai M. Longinov, Alexei N. Molchanov, Dmitry M. Perevoshchikov,...
