Lithuania of the 11th—14th centuries in the works of Russian historians of the 1850—1870s
The article analyses the works on the history of medieval Lithuania (11th—14th centuries) by I. D. Belyaev, K. N. Bestuzhev-Ryumin, N. I. Kostomarov and M. O. Koyalovitch. It focuses on Russian scholars’ perception of Lithuania in 1850—870. Employing the comparative historical method and content analysis, the authors identify the key characteristics underlying the perception of Lithuania in research discourse in the 1850s—1870s. Particular attention is paid to an analysis of preconceptions that affected...
What does “now” mean? Riekus Waskowsky’s historiosophical experiments in the poem cycle “Das alte Königsberg”
This article analyses the poem cycle “Das alte Königsberg” (“Old Königsberg”) by the Dutch poet Riekus Waskowsky (1932—1977), from his collection "Tant pis pour le clown" (1966). In the four poems of the cycle, the poet describes four events from the everyday life of Königsberg in the 16th and 17th centuries: the murder of a student, the celebration of a university anniversary, an operation to remove a knife from a patient’s stomach, and the execution of a criminal. The source of the facts...
