2026. Volume 19. Issue 1

Editor-in-Chief’s Column

Russia of the 20th century through the prism of musical art: the 1930s – Sergei Prokofiev

• A. I. Demchenko

National History

Main activities of engineering and technical workers at Lower Volga enterprises in the sphere of industrial recovery and development, 1943 – early 1950s

• D. I. Lozin

Information on paganism in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”

• A. N. Polyakov

Tobolsk province in the programs of the Literacy Committee of the Imperial Free Economic Society

• N. I. Zagorodnyuk

A historical and comparative analysis of the noble projects of 1730 and the state reform projects of N. I. Panin

• V. Y. Zakharov
• S. S. Akhmedova

General History

New socialist cities of the First Five-Year Plan of the People’s Republic of China (1953-1957): adaptation of Soviet urban planning experience

• M. A. Kuratchenko

Historiography, Source Study and Historical Research Methods

Dynamics of representation and the problem of interpreting the topic “Rus’s Horde Dependence” in modern Russian history textbooks: a historiographical analysis

• I. N. Skripkin
• D. A. Belyaev
• P. A. Shkurat

Theoretical and methodological foundations for studying the development of thinking in border spaces in historical retrospect: the case of the Roman-Iranian frontier (1st century BC – early 7th century AD)

• E. V. Chashchin
• K. D. Kamyshev

Personnel records as a source for studying the role of the national factor in the history of the Latvian Conservatory (1919-1941)

• A. D. Malnach

Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology

Marriage ties of the residents of Nizhnie Yuri Village in the Malopurginsky district of Udmurtia in the 18th century and from the second half of the 19th to the early 20th century

• V. S. Churakov

Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies

The liturgical mode of religious life: phenomenology of sacred experience in ritual practice

• U. P. Belyaeva

Arts

Genre of the sonatas for cello and piano in the style field of impressionism

• O. N. Gudozhnikova

Ney Rosauro’s Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra: peculiarities of stylistic interactions

• A. M. Ponkina
• G. V. Sokolov

The image of the ballerina T. P. Karsavina in St. Petersburg criticism of the Silver Age (commemorating the 140th anniversary of her birth)

• N. N. Zozulina
• E. A. Kulikova

R. Leoncavallo’s opera “La Bohème” as an example of a verist interpretation of H. Murger’s novel “Scenes from the Life of Bohemia”

• N. Y. Kireyeva
• Xu Duo

New forms of contemporary film posters in the multimedia space

• A. E. Zaitsev
• N. I. Barsukova

Applied aesthetics constructs as a problem of environmental design

• N. I. Barsukova

Book Reviews

Demchenko A. I. Semantic Concepts of the World Artistic Heritage: monograph. Moscow: Nauka, 2021. 616 p.: Book review

• N. Y. Kireyeva