“Rebuilding Ties That Existed Long Ago“: Experiences of Finnish Roma during Missionary Work in Estonia

Author(s): Lidia Gripenberg / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This article analyses Finnish Roma experiences of interaction with Roma in Estonia, in the period after the historic fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 through to the present. The research data rely on semi-structured interviews and informal conversations, as well as indirect observations of Finnish Roma missionising activities. The results show that Roma identity was seen as a unifying factor and a source of a feeling of belonging, but not as the major factor driving mission. The driving force of the mission stems from the urge to evangelise, inherent in how Pentecostal teaching is lived and directed. This study contributes to the understanding of the interplay of ethnic identity and spirituality in Roma communities in the context of missionising, as well as the role of missionising for the missionaries themselves.

ЭТНОГРАФИЧЕСКИЕ ЭКСПЕДИЦИИ А. М. ЛИНЕВСКОГО В КАРЕЛЬСКОЕ ПОМОРЬЕ

Александр Михайлович Линевский был одним из первых профессиональных этно- графов в Республике Карелия. Цель статьи – анализ архивных материалов двух этнографических экс- педиций А. М. Линевского

Author(s): Elvira A. Dzhioshvili / Language(s): Russian Issue: 8/2021

Этнокультурная ситуация на востоке скифского мира в III в. до н. э.

Author(s): Petr I. Shulga / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2016

The article briefly analyses the ethno-cultural situation in the east of the Scythian world in the 3rd century BC. The investigation is focused on the Scythian-like cultures of the 6th—3rd centuries BC inhabiting the territories from the Upper Ob region and Kazakhstan to Transbaikal and Manchuria, including the cultures of Northern Xinjiang (China) and Northern China itself that are barely known in Russia. We considered the problem of propriety of dating some relatively late Scythian-like burials of Tuva and Mongolia in the 2nd—1st centuries BC. It is concluded that these burials should be dated by the period no later than the 3rd century BC. Many artifacts described as the “chronological indicators of Xiongnu” cannot be regarded as dating materials because they had been common for eastern historical and cultural community of the territories from Northern China to Transbaikal before the Xiongnu culture existence. Paleoclimatic and archaeological materials and written sources describe the 3rd century BC as a period of crisis of Scythian-like nomadic cultures and a time of flourishing for the cultures that involved in complex economy of forest steppe. The reasons for the decline of nomads cultures differ. In Northern China the decline of nomads and Scythian-like culture was directly related to the expansion of the agricultural kingdoms of China that ended with their consolidation in the year 221 BC and the displacement of nomads to the northern semi-deserts, where in the 2nd century BC the archaeological culture of Xiongnu appeared.

ЭТНОНАЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ ПРОБЛЕМАТИКА В ИСПОЛНЕНИИ Б. АКУНИНА (ПРОЕКТ «ИСТОРИЯ РОССИЙСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВА»)

Author(s): Tatiana Aleksandrovna Snigireva ,Aleksey Vasilievich Podchinenov,Aleksey Vasilievich Snigirev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1 (162)/2017

B. Akunin’s latest historical and literature project “History of the Russian State” was studied in a number of aspects. Firstly, a historical concept underlying this project was analyzed. Secondly, an attempt to find out correlations between the history and literature,peculiar for the modern variant of interpretation the beginning and further development of the Russian state was undertaken. Thirdly,B. Akunin’s version of the problem of the Russian national development, directly connected with the process of the Russian state formation,was studied. The conducted analysis helped to identify the main three levels of the “Russianness” and the means employed by the author to reflect this phenomenon: the mystery of the Russian character; the importance of the Russian Orthodox Church;and the principal polyethnicity as a basis of the national integrity. The analysis revealed the author’s stylistic devices used to solve numerous ethnic and national problems: addition of another (“non-Russian”) conscience, substantiated by the visual anthropology;the mirror reflection principle; and an opened national self-identification within the text. Finally, a conclusion of the possible development of the project along the force line of Eurasianism is made: the results of sudden changes of civilization in Russian history will be analyzed in the works on history, the controversial polyethnicity will probably become the basis for the psychological depiction of the appearance of the Russian so-called “mecheny” (“labeled”) kin.

Этноним русь и восточногерманское *rauþs ‘красный’: еще раз к обоснованию гипотезы

Author(s): Aleksey A. Romanchuk / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2022

The author draws attention to a number of important unresolved problems (including those recognized by leading supporters) of the currently dominant variant of the Scandinavian etymology behind of the ethnonym Rus’/русь, He argues a new version of the East Germanic etymology of this ethnonym. Following the explanatory model of “Finno-Germanic militarized groups”, the author believes that for the Roman period we should also assume the existence of such groups (in particular, on Saaremaa, Lanemaa and Virumaa), controlling the sea route along the southern coast of the Baltic — but with the East Germans as the dominant element. East Germanic *rauþs ‘red’ is proposed as the original etymon for русь. Taking into account the phonetic processes characteristic of the East Germanic languages (early contraction of the original Germanic diphthongs and the tendency to increase vowels), a natural stage of evolution of *rauþs ‘red’ should be the form *rōþs. Considering ethnonymic models of the Finnish peoples (and Goths), we should justifiably obtain the form *rōþ (but with the meaning ‘red’) as the original etymon for the Slavic русь.

Юбилейна научна конференция „100 години Илинденско-Преображенско въстание“

Author(s): Snezhana Zaharieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2003

Юбилейна научна конференция „100 години от гибелта на Дамян Груев“

Author(s): Elena Alexandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2007

Юбилейна научна конференция „140 години от създаването на Българската Екзархия"

Author(s): Anton Donchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2010

Юбилейно възпоменание за Тодор Александров

Author(s): Dimitar Tyulekov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2004

In this article the autor talk for Todor Alexandrov - the leader of IMRO.

Юбилейно за Дойно Дойнов

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2009

Юбилейно за Маргарита Василева

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2009

Юбилейно за проф. д.ист.н. Трендафил Митев

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2010

Юбилейно откровение за доц. д-р Стоян Германов (по случай неговата 75-годишнина)

Author(s): Dimitar Tyulekov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2012

Юбилеите на руската емиграция в България (1919–1944) през нейните вестници: приоритет на снизхождащото приспособяване

Author(s): Yordan Lyutskanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

In my article, I analyse the newspaper imprints of some jubilee celebrations performed in the minds of Russian émigrés in Bulgaria, but also outdoors and indoors, between 1919 and 1944. Basing on M. Spariosu’s theory of exilic-utopian imagination and on the intuitive premise that an émigré community would inevitably pursue/problematize its accommodation within the host society, I locate the Russian émigré community and its celebrations within a tri-axial communicative situation whereby impulses for (self-aggrandising) introspection, mental war with the exiling power (sovietised Russia), and domestication of the host milieu are detectable. Considering newspapers as the most effective sites to host places of celebration for a (non-persecuted) ethno-cultural minority in the first half of the 20th c., and basing on prior historiography on the Russian émigrés of Bulgaria and on an overview of their periodicals, I identify as most conspicuous a constellation of jubilees that gravitated around the 50th anniversary from both the beginning and the completion of the 1877–1878 Russian-Ottoman war. Thus, I am able to discern the specificity of the communicative situation of that particular Russian émigré community against the benchmark of the ‘metropolitan’ one based in Paris. I approach these “imprints”, or “places of celebration”, as visual-verbal compositions (elaborating D. Georgiev’s ‘architecturology’ of newspaper); and as textualised experiences potentially reminiscent of the two cultural archetypes of “jubilee” for (post)Christian humankind, the Hebraic and the Roman ones.

Ювелирные украшения в литургическом убранстве древнерусской церкви (по материалам раскопок Н. Е. Бранденбурга в Старой Ладоге в 1887 г.)

Author(s): Anna A. Peskova,Aleksandra Yu. Kononovich,Sergei S. Zozulia / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2022

It is the first full publication of the whole stock of finds from the ruins of the Church of the Savior in Staraya Ladoga (N. E. Brandenburg, 1886—1887), rare in composition and significance, which has been kept in the State Historical Museum for more than a hundred years. The finds were discovered on the floor under the collapsed arches in the central part of the temple, the construction of which dates back to the middle of the 12th — the first half of the 13th century, the estimated time of destruction is the 16th century. It included intact chandeliers and two candlesticks, as well as jewelry. The latter, as it was possible to establish, were elements of the precious decoration of the icon, which enhanced the sacred expressiveness of a especially revered icon, but also of the architectural space of the temple. An analysis of these materials showed that this ensemble of church decoration items was formed mainly in the 13th—14th centuries and remained there until the time of the collapse of the temple.

Югославяне Австро-Венгрии, Россия и неославизм

Author(s): Sergei Romanenko / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3-4/1996

Юра Константинова. Българите в османския Солун. София: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология на БАН, 2020, 440 с. с ил. ISBN 978-619-7179-12-5

Author(s): Georgi Trenchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2020

Юрий Дмитриевич Рыков (07.12.1946 – 22.04.2020)

Author(s): Alexander Iljich Filyushkin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1 (27)/2020

This is an obituary in memory of the outstanding historian-archivist, employee of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA) Yu. D. Rykov.

Язык кыпчаков: попытка исторической характеристики

Author(s): Yaroslav V. Pylypchuk / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2018

This article is dedicated to the history of Qipchaq language. In this paper analyzing the question whether it is possible to consider the Turkic language of «Codex Cumaniсus» were lanlguage of Qipchaqs in the IX–XIII centuries. Vocabulary of Makhmud al-Kashgari was the only one dictionary which remained Qipchaq language of 11th century. Qipchaq language, other than vocabulary in this dictionary, presents of anthroponyms and ethnonyms in historical sources from different countries. Qipchaq language of 9th–13th centuries should have been closer to Oghuz language.

Языческие святилища на Старорязанском городище

Author(s): Ilya R. Akhmedov,Natalya A. Birkina,Yulia V. Loshina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2022

The article describes pagan objects of Ryazan Finns found on the ancient fortified settlement of Old Ryazan. The first of them is located on the Northern Cape of the settlement and represents the remains of a circular sanctuary with a repeatedly used central sacrificial pit, several altars and pillar pits. The dating of the sanctuary is narrowed to 8th—10th centuries. The article also publishes new materials obtained during the study of the neighboring site — the Northern fortified settlement, where the remains of a burial ground with cremations in urns were found under ancient Russian layers. It has been established that the burial ground is culturally and chronologically linked to the sanctuary on the Northern Cape. Thus, a new type of late I millennium AD Middle Oka archeological sites has been identified. Previously, ritual structures were known only on burial grounds, but the complex of the sanctuary and the burial ground located nearby is revealed for the first time. Also, the nearby object of the first half of the 12th century — the altar next to the foundation of the Old Russian Spassky Cathedral, studied at the end of the 19th century, is re-examined. The authors examined finds from the altar, including the image of an anthropomorphic idol. The current selection of its analogues is given, its connection with the steppe zone antiquities of the 8th—10th centuries is established. The comparison of the data allows the authors to hypothesize about the possible origin of the idol from the sanctuary on the Northern Cape.