West-Russian Publicists of the 19th Century

Cutting-edge Chemistry: Some 19th - Century Russian Contributions. a Commentary

This presentation follows the “classic” paper of Bensaude-Vincent (1) rather closely, but with some additional points and emendations to her argument. One of the first points Kaji makes—that Mendeleev was ambivalent about the status of the atomic theory—can be related to what Bensaude-Vincent delineates as the “strict positivist tradition” to which he belonged. Kaji, however, give this philosop...

A Spiritual and Moral Pursuit of Russian Literature in the 19th Century (Axiological Aspect of Literary Research)

The study of the axiological problems in literary studies is a fundamental direction of modern Russian Philology. In this paper, we will first conside, the search process for the orientations of values of Russian writers of the classical period of Russian literature in the 19th century; and second, the spiritual themselves foundations as ideological constants of the writers. The pursuit of Russ...

The Chronicle of Arsenic Poisoning in the 19th Century

Chronicle of Datura Toxicity in the 18th and 19th Century

Background: Datura stramonium is a poisonous and common flowering plant that is a member of the Solanacae family. Datura poisonings are a rare occurrence in the 21st century, making toxicological information on this plant sparse. Historical information on Datura provides useful information on the clinical symptoms and characteristics of poisonings. This review looks at the state of knowledge on...

Russian Germans in Russian Historiography from the Last Third of the 18th to the First Half of the 19th Century

Russia and Germany have centuries-old cultural, economic, and dynastic ties. Until the end of the 17th century, the German diaspora in Muscovy was small and concentrated in the German Quarter in Moscow. The reign of Catherine the Great (1762 – 1796) featured an active campaign carried out in Russia to engage foreign colonists in the economic development of vacant lands on the outskirts of the s...