The essay is a phenomenological study of Russian literature as point critique two lifeworlds: the traditional Feudalism with its “decadent” aristocracy, and modern Western Enlightenment values, specifically “subjective” construction val-uations all environment human activities. writers, from Turgenev way to Gogol found themselves between those worlds sought an answer which them answers existent...

Current discourse on a “historically informed music theory” focusses the 15th to 18th century, while 19th and 20th centuries are rarely considered in this context. Rather, nineteenth- twentieth-century theory is frequently representative of “systematic” musictheoretical concepts. Nineteenth-century effectively seems be separated from eighteenth-century by categorical rupture that can traced ori...

In the present study, by means of private letters, memoirs, as well school registry forms, we focus on aristocratic children’s language education: what languages did they with whom study them, methods and for purpose – whether at home or in school. After 1867, aristocracy retained its multilingual facility. The daughters family typically continued studying home, guided foreign governesses Hunga...

Abrams, Muhal Richard, 272 Absinthe, 191 Acht O’Clock Rock, 176 Across the Track Blues, 123, 176 Ad Lib on Nippon, 62, 162, 178, 207, 208, 258 Adams, Stephen, 215 Adler, Richard, 158 Adventures in Jazz (television), xvii Aesthetic Realism, 1, 4, 14, 17 Afro-Bossa (LP), xviii, 38, 158, 257 Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, The, xx, 52, 64, 165, 210, 222, 259 After All, 190 Agnew, Spiro, 164 Agra, 194, 258 ...

The article examines the issue of studying portraits from family galleries Ukrainian lordship 18th century as visual evidence social dynamics within this stratum. concept is based on statement that a portrait historical source represents person in aggregate personal characteristics and role. purpose to analyse reproduction socio-cultural changes experienced by Hetmanate's elite during Galagan’s...

This article examines some aspects underlying the formation process of early Petrine military elite referring to careers three leaders who advanced higher positions in late seventeenth century (A. S. Shein, B. P. Sheremetev, and Prince Ya. F. Dolgorukov). They were almost same age, their starting comparable, they climbed up career ladder voivodeship traditional for aristocracy differently, depe...

the present study aims at investigating how the formation of civil society in iran is affected by these characteristics of states: applying hegemony over private institutions, being dependent on tribal systems, adopting a particular political philosophy, and preventing the formation of a stable aristocratic institution in iran. in this investigation, the relationship between the state and priva...