Иван Тодоров Пулиев (Горан) между историографската недостатъчност, подценяването и стигматизирането

Author(s): Ivaylo Naydenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

This article aims to present Ivan Todorov Puliev (Goran)’s personality and especially his mercantile activities. The problem of his relations with Evlogi Georgiev and his brother Nicholas T. Puliev is also concerned. The analyzed sources concerning the activities of Ivan T. Puliev give me reason to conclude that he is а contradictory and interesting person that left visible trace in the history of the Bulgarian National Revival.

Московска българска дружина

Author(s): Marieta Kozhuharova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The article presents the activity of the so-called Bulgarian group in Moscow, founded by some Bulgarian students in the end of 50’s of XIX century. On the basis of available documents and biographical information about the Bulgarian students in Moscow are clarified the names of the persons-organizers of this group. According to the conducted analysis of the program, created by the group, on the basis of its activity and the thematically differentiating of the problems, placed in journal “Bratski trud”, published by the participants, two facts are conclude: 1) there is accordance between targets in the program and their implementation; 2) participants develop successful propaganda campaign in Russia.

Индустрията и музейното пространство (поглед към съвременния музей)

Author(s): Mira Markova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The article presents Industry Museum in Gabrovo as an example for innovations in contemporary museum space and museum conceptions. The historical perspective in town development is presented through the focus of industry. The author searches for wider conclusions about society development during different periods in the XX century. A new way for forming historical point of view was presented. The author stays on the conception that the contemporary museum must be cultural institution which creates cultural tendencies and cultural policies.

Българските общности в Северна Америка – традиции и съвременност

Author(s): Koyanka Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The article examines the processes of the development of the Bulgarian communities in North America. The main focus is on the history and the current state of the Bulgarian organizations, schools, media contributing to the preservation of the Bulgarian culture and traditions overseas.

Естетика Італійського ренесансу в жіночій аристократичній зачісці

Author(s): Oksana Anatoliyivna Minenko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 41/2018

The purpose of the article is to determine the influence of the aesthetic ideals of the Italian Renaissance on the formation and stylistic diversity of aristocratic women's hairstyles. The methodology of the study consists of the principles of objectivity, historicism, multifactor, systemicity, complexity, and pluralism; and to achieve the goal methods used: problem chronological, concrete-historical, statistical, descriptive, logical-analytical. Scientific novelty. An art-study analysis of the formation of the style of women's aristocratic hairstyles in Italy in the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries was conducted in the context of Renaissance aesthetics, based on the study of rare sources and archival materials; The role of well-known Italian aristocrats, legislators of the Isabella and Beatrice d'Este, Bianchi Maria Sforza, Batista Sforza, Maddaleni Doni, Eleonora of Toledo, Lucia Albani Avogadro, and others are researched in the process of creating and promoting new styles of women's hairstyles. Conclusions. Based on the study of the specifics of the creation and finishing of aristocratic female hairstyles of the Italian Renaissance, it has been proved that their stylistic and formative features are one aspect of the modification of the human body in accordance with the humanistic views and aesthetic ideals of the Renaissance; It was found that a female hairstyle in the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries was a symbol of individual and group identity.

Към читателя

Author(s): Nadya Kantareva-Baruh / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Survival Strategies of the Roma Deportees to Transnistria

Author(s): Petre Matei / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

The experiences the Roma underwent during World War II were not only complex, but alsoas diverse as can be. In order to fully grasp this complexity, one must understand thelegislative framework, bureaucratic practices, their impact on the Roma, as well as the waysin which the Roma themselves tried to cope with these measures. Oftentimes, the criteriato identify the “undesirable” Roma were very vague and subjective, leaving a lot of leewayto the local authorities and allowing them to act outside a controllable legal framework.The same formal criteria used by the authorities to deport the Roma were later used by theRoma to prove that their deportations were abusive and that the deportees deserved to berepatriated. Interestingly, those who had the best chances of survival were not, in fact, thosewho only used the legal measures available to them, but rather those who fled Transnistriaillegally. Once they arrived back home, they could use the loopholes of a complicated legaland bureaucratic system to get help and, eventually, to save themselves.

The Djurin Ghetto: Official Order, Internal Structure, and Networking Strategies

Author(s): Ana Bărbulescu / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

The paper approaches the topic of Transnistrian ghettos from a micro-historical perspective,reconfiguring the story of Djurin, in the Mogilev district, one of the ghettos administeredby the Romanian authorities. The perspective is both historical, and sociological, with anemphasis on Bourdieu’s theorization of the field and capitals. Official documents and oralsources will be both considered.

МОТИВЪТ „НЕВЕСТА ЦЕЛУВА РЪКА“ В КАРТИНИТЕ НА ВЛАДИМИР ДИМИТРОВ-МАЙСТОРА

Author(s): Lalka Todorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The works of Vladimir Dimitrov – The Master are emblematic and undoubtedly distinguishable due to the artist’s purposeful and long-lasting efforts to create an art that was national in spirit and form. The Master dedicated his art to the recreation of virtues and moral purity of the people into tints and shapes. The artist turned to key moments in the life of Bulgarians and applies to them an iconic scale, aiming to achieve visually the emanation of the Bulgarian spirit. Highly impressive and memorable are his numerous figure compositions with singing women harvesters, maidens with fruit and flowers, wedding guests, mothers with children, male harvesters, etc., which still impress the diverse public and are perceived as a symbol of the Bulgarian mentality. Distinctive for The Master is the search for the most effective impression by developing cycles of a given motif.The Wedding cycle is chosen in view of the high importance of this festive occasion for the patriarchal morality of Bulgaria and the Balkans. The Bride Kisses Hand motif attracted the painter with its symbolism. The artist has created various sketches and paintings focusing on the search for the most characteristic moment, image, gesture and their rendition to an iconic message. In this direction of search and work idealisation is the artist’s deliberate tool to awaken nostalgia for the soul’s purity in the minds of his contemporaries and to leave to the generations a memory about what was and what would be in order to preserve the true identity of Bulgarians, as well as the soul’s demand for purity, respect, hierarchy and harmonious community.The artistic task that the painter has taken upon himself is comparable to the research of historians called to study and preserve Bulgarian generic memory and moral values, without which the future is unthinkable.

СЪВРЕМЕННИ ПОКЛОННИЧЕСТВА НА БЪЛГАРИ В РУМЪНИЯ

Author(s): Evgenia Troeva,Valentina Vaseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The paper presents observations on the pilgrimage of Bulgarians in Romania. On the one hand, the research interest focuses on pilgrimages of representatives of the Bulgarian communities in Romania to famous monasteries and churches in the country. At the same time, the tendencies in the crossborder pilgrimages of Bulgarians from Bulgaria visiting churches and monasteries in neighbouring Romania are presented. Personal observations and field interviews, as well as materials in the media on the topic under consideration, are used as source material. Bulgarians visit in Romania religious topoi popular among the Christians, especially places related to Bulgarian history. In this sense, these pilgrimages are an expression of religious feelings and of national identity. Observations on pilgrimage as a religious practice show that this traditional form offers to believers meaningful messages for their spiritual world and social life.

НАЦИОНАЛНИТЕ ПРАЗНИЦИ НА ТУРСКАТА РЕПУБЛИКА В МИНАЛОТО И СЕГА

Author(s): Kalina Peeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The objective of the present article is to analyse the Turkish holiday system introduced after the proclamation of the Republic and supplemented over the decades with new occasions for national celebrations. Four of Turkey’s “great holidays” introduced under Mustafa Kemal are discussed as events targeted at creating certain emotional states serving to support the Kemalist regime and to create a sense of national belonging in the minds of the Turks. The changes introduced in the national holiday system after the military coup of 1980 are also brought into focus. That was the time when the then Turkish statesmen began to pursue a policy of “Turko-Islamic synthesis” that restored the Islamic festivities – prohibited during the early years of the Republic and traditionally celebrated by left-wing political forces – back into the national calendar. Last but not least, the national holiday known as Democracy and National Unity Day, born of the attempted military coup in 1916, is also presented.

The Pious Saint Paraskevi Church in Rășinari.

Author(s): Ioan Ovidiu Abrudan / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

L’édification de l’église de Sainte Parascève à Rășinari et l’achèvement de sa décoration (peintures murales, icônes et autres dotations pour la célébration du service divin) ont représenté un processus long et labo-rieux (1752-1798). Ce dernier a constamment été soutenu par des prêtres et des croyants, sous la présidence de plu-sieurs évêques, de Petru Pavel Aron à Dionisie Novacovici, en passant par Sofronie Chirilovici, Ghedeon Nichi-tici et Gherasim Adamovici. La prospérité économique des habitants de Rășinari a fait que la décoration de l’édificesoit accomplie par de très bons artisans de l’époque – peintres locaux ou originaires des villages voisins, artistes originaires des pays extracarpathiques, aussi bien que d’Europe occidentale. Les recherches entreprises il y a neuf décennies par I. D. Ştefănescu et Ş. Meteş ont été complétées et approfondies par d’autres historiens de l’art roumain ancien, et elles soulignent la précieuse contribution de tous ces maîtres. De son côté, la présente étude contribue à établir la paternité de certaines oeuvres qui, par leur caractère original, ennoblissent le lieu de culte de Rășinari; et propose une chronologie interne des étapes de l’élaboration artistique de ce monument exceptionnel.

Monumentele medievale de pe Valea Târnavelor.

Author(s): Dragoș Năstăsoiu,Ferenc Mihály,Lorand Kiss / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

Natalya Rusetska Exhibition.

Author(s): Natalya Rusetska / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

Arta din România.

Author(s): Răzvan Theodorescu,Marius Porumb / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 3/2019

Prikazi

Author(s): Rifat Alihodžić,Šerbo Rastoder,Safet Hadrović Vrbički,Senad M. Karađuzović,Sead Bandžović,Sait Š. Šabotić,Ismet Dedeić,Kostas Mavrakis,Alen Peričić,Selma Đečević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 83-84/2020

Reviews of: 1. Zlatko Karač, Alen Žunić „Islamska arhitektura i umjetnost u Hrvatskoj. Osmanska i suvremena baština“, „Islamic Architecture and Art in Croatia. Ottoman and contemporary heritage“, Arhitektonski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, UPI-2M PLUS Zagreb, 2018. Review by: Rifat Alihodžić; 2. „Modernost Zlatka Glamočaka“, Review by: Kostas Mavrakis; 3. Gani Karamanaga „Gradski Pazar“, Review by: Šerbo Rastoder; 4. Šerbo Rastoder, „Murteza Karađuzović (1865 - 1941), muftija crnogorskih Muslimana“, Almanah, Podgorica, 2019, Review by: Alen Peričić; 5. Mehmed Pargan „Grad u cvatu magnolije“; Izdavač: BMG Bosanska medijska grupa, Tuzla, 2018., Review by: Safet Hadrović Vrbički; 6. „Slovo o knjizi“, Review by: Senad Karađuzović; 7. Harun Karčić „Šerijat i pravni pluralizam u Evropi: primjeri koegzistencije religijskog i sekularnog prava na Starom kontinentu“, Centar za napredne studije, Sarajevo, 2018, str. 206., Review by: Sead Bandžović; 8. „Slike Aldemara Ibrahimovića - arhitektura sjedinjenog vremena“ (uz izložbu Aldemara Ibrahimovića u Modernoj galeriji u Podogorici), Review by: Selma Đečević; 9. Enes Pelidija, “Osmanisti Bosne i Hercegovine do kraja XX stoljeća”, knj. I, Mostar, 2019, 237 str., Review by: Sait Š. Šabotić; 10. „Sandžački Bošnjaci u brčanskom kraju: Posavina u srcu, Sandžak u duši“, Review by: Ismet Dedeić

История на българските фолклорни танци от европейска гледна точка

Author(s): György Németh / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The European dance culture is homogeneous. Many of the European dances are not only related to each other but are also variations of each other. Their area of distribution (the ancient Roman Empire) indicates that a common dance ancestor had already existed in antiquity. This ancient dance is the so called Faroe step. The ideology of humanism resulted in a worldview in which the human being and his free will become the measures of everything. Human needs and interests are put in the centre of the new worldview. The worth of the individual increases and he is gradually released from his shackles, life turns into a priority, a demand for individual gratification appeared: amusement, entertainment, dance. From the local variants of the Faroe step used in the ancient rituals has developed in a fanlike manner the European dances (including the Bulgarian ones) with their incredibly rich tempos and rhythm were developed. They were all inspired by the dominant instrumental musical accompaniment.

Обреди и празници в селата Долен и Сатовча – песенната традиция на християни и мюсюлмани

Author(s): Milko Boshnakov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article presents main rites and feasts in the villages of Dolen and Satovcha. The specifics of the singing tradition of the Bulgarian Christians and Muslims are described. The author finds that despite of the fact that some traditional rites and feasts such as Peperuda, maiden chain dance on Bayram, etc. are no longer performed, the songs connected to them continue to be performed.

Transitions Online_Around the Bloc-3 February

Author(s): Ioana Caloianu / Language(s): English Issue: 02/10/2020

In the news: Pompeo extends lifeline to Lukashenka; Kosovo ends political deadlock; an immigrant inflow (or not) in Romania; poverty and hunger in Turkmenistan; and EU court deflects Adriatic border dispute.

Румен Аврамов. Икономика на „възродителния процес“. София, Център за академични изследвания (поредица „Изследователски форум“). Издателство „Рива“, 2016. 760 с.

Author(s): Nikolay Poppetrov / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2019

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