The Historical Culture of the Russian Empire: Formation of Representation of the Past / Ed. A. N. Dmitriev. M.: ID VShE, 2012.


The Historical Culture of the Russian Empire: Formation of Representation of the Past / Ed. A. N. Dmitriev. (Istoricheskaya kul'tura imperatorskoi Rossii: formirovanie predstavlenii o proshlom / Otv. red. A.N. Dmitriev. M.: ID VShE, 2012.)

 

The book describes the multifaceted development of basic concepts of Russia’s and Europe’s past that existed in the Russian Empire from the second half of the eighteenth until the beginning of the twentieth century. Unlike traditional historiography focusing on the evolution of academic research only, the authors show a more integrated approach, reconstructing the fundamental concepts and mechanisms of the nation’s historical culture (including education, the activities of the church and religious schools, museums, historical societies and archeographic institutions as well as regional communities, etc.). The study of historical knowledge is complemented by essays showing the evolution of historical consciousness (with its receptive and creative components) as well as the dynamics of the historical imagination (in 18th-19th century Russian art and literature).

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

 

A. Dmitriev. The past of our past (the problems of historical culture in the Russian Empire)

 

Section I: Historical knowledge

 

1. A. Kamensky. At the wellspring of Russian historical research: Georg Friedrich Müller

2. L. Repina. Timofey Granovsky and the idea of universal history in Russia

3. N. Fedorova. ‘Educating with the help of history’ using gymnasium textbooks in the first half of the nineteenth century

 4. A. Tolochko. The dispute over the legacy of Kievan Rus' in the mid-nineteenth century: Maksimovich vs Pogodin (translated from Ukrainian by A. Dmitriev and O. Karpova)

5. V. Chesnokov. Formation and characteristics of historical education at pre-revolutionary Russian universities

6. A. Sveshnikov, A. Antoshchenko. History ‘seminar’ as a place of knowledge

7. Th. Sanders. The third opponent: defense of thesis and the social profile of the academic history in the Russian Empire (translated from English by A. Antoshchenko)

8. N. Gavryushin. Features of the historical school at ecclesiastical academies

 

Section II: Historical Consciousness

9. V. Parsamov. Karamzin and the formation of historical culture in Russia (towards the ‘historian and the audience’ problem)

10. T. Saburova. ‘Realms of memory’ of the Russian educated society in the first half of the nineteenth century

11. V. Boyarchenkov. Provincial students of the past in mid-nineteenth century Russia's historiographical space

12. N. Rodigina. ‘Journals were our laboratories ...’: Constructing the historical consciousness of provincial intellectuals in the second half of the nineteenth century

13. I. Chirskova. Censorship and historical knowledge in Russia in the second half of the nineteenth century

14. A. Topychkanov. Preservation and museumification of Russia's cultural heritage from the eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century

15. V. Kaplan. Historical societies and the idea of historical enlightenment (late nineteenth – early twentieth century)

 

Section III: The historical imagination

16. E. Vishlenkova. The past shown (from late eighteenth to early nineteenth century)

17. E. Penskaya. The nineteenth-century Russian historical novel

18. K. Tsymbaev. Reconstructing the past and constructing the future in the nineteenth-century Russia: using historical anniversaries for political purposes

19. S. Eremeeva.  ‘The stone guests’: monumental commemoration practices


List of Irina Savelieva’s works

About the authors

List of abbreviations