Polotia recepta. A Map of the Principality Polatsk: Texts and Pretexts thePower Dispute This study discusses an important aspect a political message conveyed by Stanisław Pachołowiecki’s map, published in 1580 G.B Cavalieri’s printing house Rome as part The Atlas Polatsk – Descriptio Ducatus Polocensis. question is one paratexts, presenting detailed historical note on Principality. main goal to...

The subject of this paper is Taras Shevchenko’s attitude towards the key personalities – Mykhailo Shchepkin, Nicholas I, and Yekaterina Piunova as reflected in his diary (also called “The Journal”). goal to focus on author’s characteristics these people, those that illuminate own personality too. Although there are a number studies poet’s contacts with them, quite few important details still re...

The paper explores Hryhorii Skovoroda’s dialogue “Archistratigus Michael's Fight with Satan” (“Bran Arkhystratyha Mykhaila so Satanoiu”, 1783), which contains several quotations from two authors — Teofan Prokopovych and Varlaam Liashchevskyi – who belonged to Alma Mater, the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Being a unique occurrence in writings, these contemporary have been analyzed as an instance of pecul...

INTRODUCTION The Russian Revolution of October 1917 resulted in a transfer of power from the autocratic Tsar Nicholas II to the Bolshevik Party and the subsequent establishment of the world's first socialist state. The victorious revolutionaries inherited from the Tsarist regime a politically, culturally, and linguistically complex situation, with over 100 million citizens speaking no less than...

In his famous speech of 1714, Peter I depicts Europe as a single organism with Greece its heart: it is from here that “the sciences,” like blood, once flowed and along the homeward path they run, having first gained firm foothold in Russia. The18th century perceived this comparison real political program: similarity was supposed to imply European culture should be brought back on Russian bayone...