The relevance of the research is determined by need to study experience development reading culture in Central Chernozem region Russian Empire among educated segments population. features selection literature for family evenings are analyzed, reader's interest different social and age groups nobles characterized (primarily due appeal composition book collections). During circle central nobility...

Abstract Cousin marriage, a spousal union between close kin, occurs at high frequencies in many parts of the world. The rates cousin marriage humans are concordant with empirical studies that challenge traditionally held view reproduction kin is generally avoided animals. Similarly, some theoretical models animal behaviour show inbreeding avoidance more constrained than previously thought. Such...

This article tries to elucidate the historical circumstances of text Capitulación, asiento y concordia acordada por el marqués de Villena con los vecinos San Juan Villamalea, which has been transmitted from an indirect tradition in two apograph manuscripts kept Municipal Archive Villamalea (Albacete) and Historical Nobility (Toledo).

In 1778 Dr Anton Mesmer arrived in Paris from Austria with his new theory of illness and the treatment he had created. He believed in the power of “animal magnetism”, a universal fluid to cure illness. Groups of his patients gathered in a room surrounding a large enclosed wooden tub with iron wands protruding out of it. The patients would hold the wands and touch them to their afflicted parts. ...

The squirrel instinct is inherent in most of us from the earliest age, and the reason for this desire to hoard is often obscure. It is not necessarily the miser in us, storing property in the hopes of increasing our worldly assets, as many will collect items which have little or no intrinsic value. The schoolboy's interest in match box covers, cigarette cards and a host of other curiosities, wh...

The second half of 16th and early 17th centuries was an important landmark in the history peoples Northeast Caucasus. That when essential events greatly influenced subsequent course historical processes. Chechens continued to move from mountains plains. Kumyks are settling Terek-Sulak interfluve, which gives birth renowned Endirean princedom region's history. This is where (Akkits-Aukhovs) (Nor...

The heritage of the estates Russia as a whole, including in St. Petersburg province, is currently almost destroyed, therefore, study topic related to possibility preserving objects manor architecture especially relevant for restoration scientific direction. highest nobility occupy special place history architecture, but many unique complexes have remained only memories, and most survivors prese...