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September 30, 2026
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2026. Volume 19. Issue 3

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Editor-in-Chief’s Column

Russia of the 20th century through the prism of musical art: the 1950s – Georgy Sviridov

A. I. Demchenko

National History

Christian elements in the chronicle account of Prince Oleg’s death

I. F. Dorofeev
N. I. Solntsev

The Popular Socialists and their concept of Russia’s state structure in a socialist future (1906-1917)

O. L. Protasova

The impeachment procedure against Boris Yeltsin (1995-1999) as an instrument of the communist party's parliamentary strategy

G. A. Mayorov
I. K. Shcherbakova

Images of armed separatists during the initial period of the first Chechen campaign (based on materials from the central media of the Russian Federation)

D. V. Tumakov

The Nizhny Novgorod Annunciation Monastery in the 18th century: evolution of status and management system

A. D. Averkiev
A. A. Fomenkov

Activities of regional authorities and foreign organizations in eliminating the famine in the Don region in 1921-1922: from historiography to new sources

V. N. Kalnichenko

The 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty as a step towards the restoration of the Patriarchate

A. A. Svyatov

Deputies of the First and Second State Duma in the assessments of S. I. Smirnova-Sazonova (based on the materials of an unpublished diary)

P. A. Pystina

The Ural architect Vitaly Semyonovich Elsykov (1928-2001): a biographical study

D. S. Borovkov

Effectiveness of the work of the People’s Commissariat of Railways of the USSR in the first months of the Great Patriotic War

V. V. Raisman

Combat operations of Soviet troops against Norwegian collaborators within the SS Division “Nordland” during the initial stage of the Krasnoselskoye-Ropshinskaya offensive operation (January 1944)

E. A. Bakhtin

The confrontation between Wehrmacht doctrine and the practice of the Soviet partisan movement in 1941-1943 (based on materials from the Kursk Region)

V. V. Korovin
A. D. Nemtsev

Practices of preserving children’s lives and health in the first half and middle of the 19th century: based on materials from Western Siberian cities

K. V. Valkova
E. S. Sablina

Institutionalization of the authority of the temporary military governor of Sevastopol in 1829-1849

N. L. Semenova

The issue of the territorial affiliation of the Kizlyar Okrug in the context of the administrative-territorial reform of the 1920s in the North Caucasus

D. S. Kokorkhoeva

Activities of the Russian railway gendarmerie in protecting imperial trains in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries

P. A. Kolpakov

Problems of social development during the NEP Years in the USSR (based on materials from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Penza Governorate)

S. A. Zhgut

Military commissar of EPRON A. P. Burachenko: pages from the biography of a party official

D. A. Vorob’ev
A. A. Shmidke

Role of public organizations in supporting disabled persons and veterans of the Great Patriotic War in the USSR

D. V. Stepina

Pedagogical activity of Kazan noblewomen in the late 19th – early 20th centuries

Y. V. Mironova

The Voronezh province countryside in the early years of Soviet power: on the path of socialist construction

N. A. Alexanyan

Public initiative and popular readings in the Smolensk Governorate in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

N. I. Gorskaya
E. V. Lapteva

General History

The cult of the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper in Korea: evolution and transformation

Y. G. Smertin

Limited legality: special legal regimes in British India, 1858-1937

T. Y. Zevatskiy

Nasserism and Arab nationalism: the transformation of the pan-Arab idea amidst the geopolitical challenges of the Middle East (1948-1961)

T. M. Chikaidze

Catholics of Saint Christopher and Montserrat and the question of their expulsion from the Virginia colony in the 1620s-1640s

E. P. Makarov

Training of wind instrument players from China in the Soviet Union (1950s–1960s) and the formation of the Chinese wind school

Xuze Shi

Image of Alexander I against the backdrop of the Foreign Campaign of the Russian Army: interpretation of French newspapers

A. V. Latonova

The political clash of ecclesiastical and civil authority in late antique Alexandria: the conflict of Patriarch Cyril and Prefect Orestes (412-415 CE)

I. V. Abdulmanova

Development of the Japanese policy to increase the birth rate in 1991-2024

E. V. Silivanov

Marlborough's Danube march-maneuver and the turning point in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

A. V. Kutishchev

Historiography, Source Study and Historical Research Methods

Approved plans and the Book of Urban Inhabitants of Tyumen in the early 19th century: an experience of source-critical verification

I. S. Khimich
S. I. Tsembalyuk

Features of the minutes of the Latvian Conservatory Council in the 1920s-1930s as a source for studying the role of the national factor

A. D. Malnach

Orthodoxy as a factor in shaping the self-consciousness of the Russian people in the works of N. A. Berdyaev, I. A. Ilyin, and P. B. Struve: source-critical aspects

I. S. Usacheva

Ontology and Epistemology

Conceptual ideas of the transcendent in ancient metaphysics

M. S. Korshunov

Metaphysics of a relational event: towards a dialectic of overcoming the crisis of quantum ontology

E. V. Bolshakov

The concept of diversity of types of cognition: some theoretical results

N. I. Martyshina

The hylozoistic content of the definition of matter in Soviet philosophy

A. T. Sverguzov

The ontological status of personhood in N. A. Berdyaev’s metaphysics

D. V. Zhdanov

The phenomenon of forgetting in scientific cognition

E. I. Demidova
Y. M. Duplinskaya
I. V. Steklova

Philosophical foundations of literary local studies: place ontology

A. E. Komlev
N. Y. Denisova

Social and Political Philosophy

Personal autonomy as a factor in the decline of the regulatory capacity of law: the crisis of institutions under political-legal liberalism

Y. T. Aziev

Post-material values and the search for meaning in the digital era

A. R. Sabitova
E. Y. Krotova

Social-philosophical analysis of labor conflict transformation in the context of labor intellectualization

N. A. Butenko
N. R. Khadasevich

Two ancient paradigms of voluntary death and the problem of external sanction in the bioethics of euthanasia

A. O. Mikhaylova

Language ecology and neural-network simulacra of the Russian linguistic worldview: an ecophilosophical analysis

D. I. Izmailova

Theoretical and methodological issues of social forecasting in modern conditions

V. I. Przhilenskiy
I. V. Przhilenskiy

Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Culture

Blood, beasts, ecstasy: the bodily codes of shamanism in the system of archaic biopolitics

E. A. Okladnikova
A. M. Prilutskii

The philosophical and anthropological meaning of ethnoreligiosity in the existence of ethnocultural identity

A. I. Bobkov
A. V. Ageev

The festive atmosphere: a philosophical analysis of collective emotions in the urban environment

V. D. Beresnev

Anthropological foundations of the manuscript work of Archimandrite Iriney (Falkovsky)

O. I. Nifontova
I. A. Strelkova
O. V. Verbina

Persuasion without a persuader: the anthropological foundations of infrastructural ideology

A. A. Trunov

The existential gap as the ontological foundation of cognitive sovereignty: from Dasein to a sovereign cognitive system

E. V. Bolshakov

Restoration of damaged human nature as a central problem in Archimandrite Evtikhian (Lestev)’s manuscript work “Practical Theology”

O. I. Nifontova
T. I. Lipich
V. V. Lipich

The “inherent” Russian cultural code in the philosophical thought of G. P. Fedotov

I. A. Vvedensky

Freedom and responsibility in the philosophical concept of metamodernism: an essay in interpreting contemporary poetry (as exemplified by the lyric poetry of Alexander Krasovitsky)

V. V. Popova

Machine intelligence as a category of technoculture: operational mediation and limits of technical agency

U. P. Belyaeva

Objectification of the spiritual sphere in the information society and the value-based foundations of the educational process

V. D. Emelyanenko
I. V. Malashenko
K. A. Matakov

Theocentric energetic anthropology of Gregory Palamas in the light of the theological and philosophical tradition of Byzantine Hesychasm

R. A. Burkhanov
O. V. Nikulina

Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies

Unity of the religious and the national in Saint Savaism: from Saint Nikolai of Serbia to modernity (based on Serbo-Croatian and English-language literature)

Y. V. Pavlov

Paganism in the philosophical reflection of Edward Herbert

T. B. Sorokina

Aesthetics

The problem of the essential definition of art within the framework of the intuitionist aesthetics approach

K. V. Krintsius

Theory and history of Culture and Art

Iconography of military triumph in Egypt and Mesopotamia in the third millennium BCE: royal and private strategies of representation

Y. S. Reunov

Olfactory accents in modern museum practice

M. L. Zaitseva

Historiography of domestic non-objective painting of the first third of the 20th century: on the issue of the relevance of studying the figurative system

M. V. Dronik

Yu. Butsko, B. Tchaikovsky, G. Dmitriev, G. Kancheli: four composers’ perspectives on the treatment of percussion instruments in the Soviet symphony of the 1970s

O. B. Elkan
E. P. Martynenko

Daoist and Confucian foundations of the architectural concept of longevity in China

Zhiyuan Yao

Historical prerequisites for the emergence of media design

A. N. Pislegina

An analysis of representations of the deconstruction of the human image and the anthropological transition in Western culture and art from the second half of the 20th to the early 21st century

T. V. Romanov

Arts

The violin and cello on the path to uniting into an ensemble duet: history and theory

L. S. Goglacheva

Ornamental symbolism of embroidery in the peasant costume of East Slavic settlers of the Altai Territory: historical context and changes

D. A. Batalova

Orchestral parts as an object of source studies and textual criticism

N. I. Teterina
A. V. Lukyanov

Perception practices of Mogao cave art: sacral space, mural representation, and modern museum interpretation

Xudong Bai

The concert “Schwanendreher” for viola and orchestra by P. Hindemith in the historical and cultural context of the era

E. A. Blagodarskaya
E. A. Blagodarskaya

Sonata for cello and piano in the light of neoclassical trends of the first half of the 20th century: to the problem of interpreting genre features

O. N. Gudozhnikova

Semantics of sound in children’s piano music by contemporary Russian composers

E. A. Shefova
L. P. Kazantseva

Communicative functions of the epic music genres of the Yurt (Nogai) Tatars and the Nogai-Karagash of the Volga-Caspian Region

A. R. Usmanova

The decorative treatment of the façades of the ksar of Aït Benhaddou in southern Morocco: material, relief, and light-and-shadow articulation

A. A. Pallades

Modern approaches to brand book design in the context of brand communication digitalization

G. M. Koryakina
E. V. Pashchuk
I. I. Orlov

Murals of V. P. Gusarov and V. G. Lekanov "City Builders of Petersburg" in the Leningrad branch of the Central Institute for Advanced Training

E. S. Kharlanov

Artificial intelligence as a tool for representing Dagestani folk costume in artistic design

M. I. Alibekova