OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)Aesopian Subjects in Russian Popular Prints. The article analyses 18th century Russian popular prints that depict Aesopian motifs; the information on the textual and iconographic sources of the prints is summarized and ...
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(2024)The Disciples of Ioannikiy and Sofroniy Likhudov and the Development of Book Printing in Russia, 1691-1740. The article is devoted to the social portrait of several generations of students of Ioannikios and Sophronios ...
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(2024)The Manuscript Fragment of the Stockholm Catechism (1628) Preserved in Halle: Attribution, Dating and Intended Use. The article examines a manuscript copy, located in Halle, of the first Russian translation of M. Luther's ...
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(2024)The Transfer-Translation-Localization of European Scientific Knowledge in Kopievsky’s Textbooks. The article examines the methods of introducing European scientific knowledge into the Russian language used by Ilya Fedorovich ...
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(2024)Echoes of Antiquity in Russian Poetry of the Eighteenth Century (A Preliminary Sketch). The article is devoted to the dependence of Russian poetry of the 18th century on ancient poetic culture. Using the example of the use ...
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(2024)On Two Translations by the Likhudi Brothers: Assertions and Conjectures. The article focuses on some translations from Italian and Latin by the brothers Ioannikii and Sofronii Likhud. The first part is devoted to a group ...
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(2024)Noah and Japheth in the oratorical prose of Feofan Prokopovich and Stefan Yavorsky. This article focuses on the functioning of the names Noah and Japheth in the oratorical prose of the main preachers of the Petrine era — ...
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(2024)Unfamiliar Acquaintances: What Else Can Dictionaries Tell Us? Vocabulary is considered to be first and foremost a linguistic and pedagogical field: it teaches readers to master the lexical units of their own or a foreign ...
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(2024)Sumarokov's “Monstrous” Variants: Remarks on the History of Reading, Education and Translation in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Sumarokov’s translation practice, throughout his career, reveals a tendency towards "monstrous" ...
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Chapter Лексические омонимы и квазиомонимы (équivoques) в Грамматике французской и русской 1730 года(2024)Lexical Homonyms and Quasi-Homonyms (“équivoques”) in the Grammar of French and Russian of 1730. The article analyzes Russian homonyms and quasi-homonyms with a French translation from the section “Équivoques” of Grammaire ...
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(2024)Thomas Consett's Latin Translation of M. Smotritsky's Grammar (1648): The History of a Translation. The following article presents the Latin translation of M. Smotrytsky’s grammar (as printed 1648) by Thomas Consett. ...
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(2024)On the Problem of Church Slavonic Writing in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16–18th Centuries: Religious and Didactic Editions from Two Podlasie Printing Houses. The boundary of Eastern and Western Christianity ...
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(2024)Derzhavin and the Aesopian Tradition in the Eighteenth Century. The literary tradition of the fable genre emerged and developed in the 18th century, starting from A. Kantemir, through the formal experiments of Trediakovskij ...
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(2024)Call it What You See: Karion Istomin’s Primer as an Educational Text on the Boundary of Epochs. The article is devoted to Karion Istomin’s illustrated primer. The first part of the article presents an historiographical ...
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(2024)Holberg's Description of the Battle of Gemauerthof (On the Question of the Russian Sources of his Introduction to the History of the Most Notable European Countries). This article suggests a Russian source for an episode ...
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(2024)In 1708 Peter the Great unveiled his new so-called “civil” orthography with great fanfare and ambition, and commanded that it immediately become the standard script for non-liturgical publications. This essay explores the ...
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(2024)The Polish Episode in the Biography of Johann Werner Paus. The research inspiration for this article is Johann Werner Paus' entry in his travel journal of his trip from Saxony to Russia in 1701. Paus wrote that he received ...
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(2024)This article demonstrates how Karion Istomin’s Book of Understanding Intellectual Vision and Bodily Activity in God’s Wisdom (1683), the panegyric offered to Petr Alekseevič for his eleventh name-day, exemplifies an ongoing ...
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(2024)The First German Grammar printed for Russians (Berlin, 1713) and its Geographical Names from Prussia Identifying some unexpected in the text geographical names from Prussia, the article discusses the possibility that the ...
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(2024)Petrine epoch is often seen as both rapidly adopting Western values and revolutionary regarding the antecedent Russian cultural tradition, although still strongly depending upon it. Manuductio ad linguam Germanicam, written ...
