Museum exhibition text: intercultural and translation aspects
The article is devoted to the study of the texts of the museum exhibition, which play the mediator role between visitors of a museum and its artifacts. The purpose of the study is to consider the text of the museum exhibition as an effective tool for intercultural communication. The review of foreign and domestic ...
The inclusive function of translation in the digital space of a modern museum
The article deals with museum communication in the virtual space of modern Internet platforms, which provide the user with the opportunity to discover masterpieces of world art. In the context of the pandemic, virtual museum visits have become especially relevant. The implementation ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... the Cathedral (it has become a traditional meeting place for the researchers and admirers of Kantian philosophy), a memorial plaque on the site of the philosopher’s house, a memorial plaque with quotes from Kant and a Kant bench at the World Ocean Museum. The late 1980s-early 1990s witnessed a growing interest in Kant from Kaliningrad intellectuals. At the beginning of the 21st century, the philosopher’s name and image were integrated into tourist narratives and practices. In 2016, Tsentralny ...
Fort №5 in the historical memory of Kaliningrad residents
... was surrendered by the German command. Later fifteen men were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the fort storming. The article is based on the unpublished documents dating from 1970—1980s from the archives of the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art which are related to the events of the East Prussian invasion. The author studies the process of including the former German fortress in the historical memory of the Soviet Kaliningrad inhabitants. The article identifies the ...
Immanuel Kant’s House in Königsberg: Attempt at a 3D Reconstruction
... not survived, having been pulled down in the late nineteenth century. Likewise, hardly any of the great philosopher’s personal belongings have survived. Many pieces of furniture and household utensils were auctioned off after his death. So the Kant museum had few original exhibits from the Königsberg thinker’s house, and almost all these artefacts were lost during the Second World War. Today, digital technologies make it possible to present a virtual picture of the various rooms, reconstruct ...
The journal “1812”and the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812
... and their associates — publishers, authors and subscribers of the journal “1812” at the end of the 19th — the beginning of the 20th centuries. The same group of military historians, academics and popularizers initiated the foundation of the Museum of 1812 and the Borodino panorama, painted by F. A. Roubaud for the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812. On the one hand, publications in the journal reflected the prevailing worldview and the lexis used at that time. On the other ...
Regional history at the Kaliningrad Museum of History and Art (1946–1991)
Relying on previously unexamined archival documents and regional press materials, I consider the creation and later transformations of the historical exposition at the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art. Analysis of exhibition boards dedicated to the past of the region reveals the political and ideological context in which local museums developed. Moreover, it renders it possible to describe the politics of memory pursued ...
The Intercessor Type of Marian Iconography: Icons from the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art
... painting. By examining the image in more recently painted icons, the author produces its first full description and introduces the 19th-century icon ‘Mother of God the Intercessor of the Deesis row’ from the collection of the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art. The results of the analysis suggest that the Intercessor type of Marian iconography is characterised by a full- or half-length image, showing Virgin Mary from a distance. She is painted without the Child and holding a scroll....
Spiritual Ascension in the Icons and Vitae of Female Martyrs: the Collection of the Rybinsk Museum and Preserve
... the execution of the martyrs. Both vitae correspond to the Passion of the Lord. The vita of Saint Paraskevi of Iconium reveals the symbols of the Passion. It is stressed that the icons of Paraskevi the Great Martyr from the collection of the Rybinsk museum and preserve differs from the copy of the vita included in the 17th-century manuscript held at the museum.
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Interactive National Language Museum and the Development of Rhetoric Culture
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2. Lietuvių kalbos institutas [Lituanistikos židinys]. URL: http://www.lki.lt/LKI_LT/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=51 (дата ...
Dispute about Holbein as a dispute about faith: discussion around Fedor Dostoevsky’s novel ‘The Idiot’
The article is devoted to the controversy around the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger "Christ in the tomb" and the novel "The Idiot" by Fedor Dostoevsky, where this picture is the central ekphrasis. The aim of the study was to analyze the current trends in the interpretation of Holbein's painting and Dostoevsky's novel, in their relationship with Christian dogmatics, canonical requirements for depicting the image of Christ, the biblical context, and to establish existing and...
An early edition of Andrey Bolotov’s memoirs (from the archives and manuscripts section of the State Historical Museum)
... In particular, the stages of his work on this text are not entirely clear. This article is an attempt to shed light on one aspect of this problem. Bolotov’s personal fund (No. 349) in the Archives and manuscripts section of the State Historical Museum contain a manuscript of Bolotov’s memoirs entitled “Part 2”. It differs significantly in its essential characteristics (paper, design, size, composition, title, division into sections, etc.) from most manuscripts of Bolotov’s memoirs....
Pushkin texts in the description of characters by Dostoevsky and Nabokov
... texts is what the images of characters are built on. It is a text-producing and plot-building technique and an element of literary discourse, of author-reader interactions. These techniques are used by Vladimir Nabokov in Despair and “The Visit to the Museum”.
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A. V. Makedonov and A. A. Palshkov. The history of an epistolary (based on the correspondence stored in the Literary Museum archive of SmolSU)
The article is based on the late 1975 correspondence between A. V. Makedonov, the famous Soviet critic, literary scholar and A. A. Palshkov, the director of Literary museum in Karl Marx Smolensk State Pedagogical Institute (currently Smolensk State University). The paper considers the history of pre-publishing preparation of an article containing extracts of N. I. Rylenkov's letters. Our analysis of the epistolary ...
How did Kant’s death mask end up in Tartu? Surprising finding at the archive of Art Museum of Tartu University
This article tells how Kant's deathmask ended up in the Museum of Classical Antiquities of the University of Tartu.
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A testimony of the First World War: Käthe Kollwitz’s cycle War (1922—1923)
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The lichens of the “Mikhailovskoye” A. S. Pushkin historical-literary and natural-landscape memorial museum (the Pskov region)
This article focuses on the lichens of the “Mikhailovskoye” A. S. Pushkin historical-literary and natural-landscape memorial museum (the Pskov region). The authors compiled a list of 154 lichen species of 63 genera and carried out a taxonomic analysis as well as an analysis of lichen life forms. The article also considers the distribution of lichens by substrates. 3 species ...
How did Kant’s death mask end up in Tartu? A surprising finding at the archive of Art Museum of the University of Tartu
This article tells the story of how Kant's death mask ended up in the Museum of Classical Antiquities of the University of Tartu.
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The Role of the Kantian “Power of Judgment” in the “Nonmodern” Study of Conscious Experience
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Analysis and translation of the Old English poem Instructions for Christians in the context of the Christian tradition
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The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... region’s population visited Poland, and 17.8 % — Lithuania. High travel intensity (once a month or more) is typical for 11.4 and 3.4 % of the population, respectively.
Among the purposes of trips to Poland, the first place is shared by leisure (visiting museums, cafes, cultural events, and attractions) and food shopping. In trips to Lithuania, the latter was not so popular due to the higher cost of products.
Among the cross-border practices, the centre-peripheral gradient is clearly expressed while ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... partially due to the fact that the capital regions take priority in national economic development planning. A comfortable urban environment is being created by building new houses, renovating old ones, opening shopping and leisure spaces, and perking up museums and theatres. The airports of all the three capitals have been reconstructed since 2007. A trend particularly important for a common tourism and recreational space is the new type of business tourism dubbed ‘bleisure’ — business travel combined ...
Preserve vs dismantle: major trends in the Baltics’ politics of memory regarding Soviet monuments at sites of mass violence
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Demographic development processes in the history of the Kaliningrad region: national trends and regional specifics
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The ‘Route from the Varangians to the Greeks’: truth or fiction
The ‘route from the Varangians to the Greeks’ is widely known and often mentioned in research, popular science and educational literature. Much less often is it mentioned that the existence of the trade route is seriously doubted and needs additional evidence. The discussion about the actuality of a ‘route from the Varangians to the Greeks’ has intensified in the recent decade; it mostly involves historians who draw on chronicles, archive materials and literary sources. Although relevant...
On M.A. Ivanova’s personal pension provision, granted for F.M. Dostoevsky’s service to the Soviet state
... returned to the People’s Commissariat of Social Security of the RSFSR in January 1928, one and a half years before the officially recognized date of death.
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"Petits portraits" by Louis-Leopold Boilly and their significance for studying the history of the era of the Premier Empire and the Restoration
... Premier Empire and Restoration. Identification of these portraits with the help of historical and comparison method provides the possibility to explore specific social group of this epoch. The author made analysis of the portrait from Marmottan Monet museum and in accordance with the documents of Gray Musketeers 1814-1815 from S.H.D. discovered the name on the portrait.
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L.-L. Boilly, iconography, uniformology, historiography and source study, V.-F.-J. de Fournas de la Brosse ...
“Enchantment for the eyes” through the eyes of foreigners: how foreign students perceive Russian verbal image in сatch phrases
Those foreigners who study the Russian language, experience great difficulties in the perception of literary speech. These difficulties are brought about by the verbal images which saturate the literary speech. Even greater difficulties arise when foreigners encounter verbal images as part of catchwords. The paper describes the experimental stage of the research focused on identifying the specifics of teaching foreigners to perceive verbal images as part of famous catch phrases. The article...
Regional politics of memory in Poland’s Warmia and Masuria
... stages, and regional features of the politics of memory from 1945 to the present. To this end, we analyse the legal regulations, the authorities’ decisions, statistics, and the reports in the press. We consider such factors as the education sector, the museum industry, the monumental symbolism, the oral and printed propaganda, holidays and rituals, the institutions of national memory, the adoption of memory-related laws, and others. From the first post-war years, the regional authorities sought to make ...
A philosophical framework for presenting novelty in a poetic text
Texts of different eras relate to varying degrees to the question of generating and presenting novelty. Recent poetry has been undergoing visible changes in poets’ attitudes to demonstrating linguistic novelty in texts. Young poets write texts that do not use the established algorithms of presenting and perceiving the new but disguise or surreptitiously reveal apparent novelty. One must explore the current practices of hedging against the new in the light of the philosophy of the text and...
Formation of the cultural landscape of the modern Kaliningrad region in the stone age
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Measuring performance of cultural organizations on the data of the envelopment analysis
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‘The Radical Black Colour’. On the Semantics of the Black Colour in Anarchist Discourse
.... Lektsiya iz tsikla «Drevo sovremennogo russkogo iskusstva», prochitannaya v muzee «Garazh» 11 sentyabrya 2015 goda ["Studio on Burakova, 27". Lecture from the cycle "The Tree of Contemporary Russian Art", read in the Garage Museum September 11, 2015]. Available at:
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The linguistic personality of A. V. Makedonov in the epistolary discourse of the 1990s (based on his letters to Margareta O. Thompson held in the archive of the Literary Museum of the Smolensk State University)
This article considers the speech portrait of the renowned Soviet critic A. V. Makedonov — A. T. Tvardovsky's friend and companion. Makedonov’s correspondence with Margareta O. Thompson, an American student of Tvardovsky’s oeuvre, dates back to the early 1990s. The epistolary discourse is examined from the perspective of cultural linguistics as an exemplary speech of a descendant of a Saint Petersburg intelligentsia family, born in the early 20th century and a witness to corresponding historical...
Cross-Border Tourist Routes: The Potential of Russia’s North- West
... Great Tea Road: Manchuria — Siberia" will pass through Chita, Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk, available at:
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Between profession and public engagement: Evolution of the public history movement in America
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Polyakova I. A. Andreas Aurifaber (1515—1559) and his Historia succinic / Kaliningrad Amber Museum. Second revised and enlarged edition. Kalininrgad, 2013. 208 pp
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The subspecies affiliation of some birds nesting n the Kaliningrad region. Part 2.2: Рasseriformes
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Language specificity of the texts of political speeches of Angela Merkel
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Ye. A. Polyakova — an expert on the history of landscape gardening (on the basis of archive data)
This article, based on archival materials, is devoted to the educational activity of the senior research fellow of the Museum of the City, Ye. A. Polyakova. Her works are dedicated not only to gardening and park facilities of past eras, but also to new trends in public landscape facilities of the 1920s—1930s.
1. Балабко Т. В. Е. А. Полякова — ...
The variations in the water level of the Pregel River in Kaliningrad (1996-2008)
The critical water levels, rises and falls of the Pregolya River are determined on the basis of daily observations performed at the "Vityaz" museum vessel in 1996—2008. The observed phenomena reveal maximum frequency in autumn and winter.
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Kant in Nikolai Strakhov’s philosophical research (An experience of epistemological orientation)
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A Königsberg society of friends without Kant
... the Lebensläufe — with the picture of Emil Doertsling showing a dinner party held by Kant, which brought together local celebrities, among whom Kant’s friend Hippel is depicted in the foreground. A copy of this picture is exhibited in Kant’s Museum at the Kaliningrad Cathedral. The article makes an interesting and convincing attempt at identifying the historical figures shown in both group portraits —Lebensläufe and the picture by Emil Doerstling.
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Cooperation between Russia and the EU in the field of innovative development of tourism: the case of the Lithuania — Poland — Russia cross-border cooperation programme
... Innovative development is often reduced to the introduction of new information technologies, i. e. informatization replaces innovative development. However, it is important to take into account other innovative tools: for instance, interactive network museums in developing innovative tourist attraction objects, e-marketing in introducing innovations in tourist product promotion, programmes of private- public partnership in the field of public regulation and tourism stimulation, etc. These technologies ...