http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4391 2026-05-08T10:22:06Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4442 Title: Spirituality of Protodeacon and Empereor Peter I Authors: Drozdek, Adam Abstract: Judging by the frequency with which Peter I used religious language in his numerous letters, it could be argued that the tsar was a deeply religious man. However, his legislation points to the strength with which he tried to subordinate the official Orthodox church to himself, the culmination of which was the Spiritual Regulations that replaced the patriarchate with a collegial Synod subordinated to the tsarist government. However, the best image of Peter’s attitude to religion is the Most-Drunken Council, which he established at the beginning of his rule and which existed until the end of his life. The activities of this Council consisted of frequent revels and numerous ceremonies which were not devoid vulgarity mocking imitations of the rituals and doctrines of the Orthodox Church. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4441 Title: Sof’ja Andreevna Tolstaja e la ‘verità’ di Moja žizn’ Authors: De Giorgi, Roberta Abstract: This paper focuses on the most relevant work by Sof’ya Andreevna Tolstaya (1844-1919), Moya žizn’, an extensive family chronicle, which was written between 1904 and 1916, and published only in 2011 in its first Russian complete version. The Author aims at analyzing the structure and genre of her work shedding light on the reasons that led Sofia Andreevna to write her own memoirs. Her book can be seen as a combined genre, in that it includes her autobiography as well as Tolstoy’s biography. Indeed, the whole story revolves around Tolstoy. The ‘moya’ in the title highlights her perspective, from which the author conceived her work. Andreevna Tostaya’s book represents an opportunity for her to tell her 'truth' about Tolstoy and their life together. Thus, her memories provide evidence for a true tragedy. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4440 Title: Carrying the Red Man’s Burden: Pavel Luknitskii, or Kipling in the Soviet Pamir Authors: Colombo, Duccio Abstract: Kipling’s work in the Soviet Union was heavily criticized as an expression of imperialism; yet, it was widely read and translated – it was clearly more acceptable than that of Nikolai Gumilev, “the Kipling from Tsarskoe Selo”, a purported counter-revolutionary whose name itself was forbidden. This explains the apparent contradictions in the image of Pavel Luknitskii – from one side, a scholar of Gumilev, from the other, an official Soviet writer. His novel Nisso (1946), based on his travels in the Pamir, is a classic of Soviet literature about the Asian republics. The novel’s plot is built around a classic Colonial triangle, mixed with a typical Soviet collectivization story. The setting purportedly reconstructs the Shugnan region that the author described in his travelogues; many traits in the depiction, however, appear to be highly arguable and expose Luknitskii’s colonialist attitude. The border between Soviet Tajikistan and Afghanistan, carrying the novel’s fundamental symbolic weight, in particular, is nothing but the border between the respective spheres of influence the Russian and the British Empires agreed upon in 1895. The Soviet writers thus needed to construct the Shugnans as a nationality in order to find a place for them inside the Soviet family. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4439 Title: La psicoanalisi russa fra marginalità e assimilazione (1904-1930) Authors: Zalambani, Maria Abstract: The present research is an attempt to write the initial pages of a study on the social and cultural history of psychoanalysis in Russia. While the swift spread in Russia of Freudian thought and methods is well known, what is little known are the causes of its rapid diffusion. The evolution of how Freud’s methods became diffused in Russia is examined against the background of the socio-economical processes that were changing Russian society between the XIX and XX century, and that were acting in synergy with the intense cultural life of the Silver Age. From this scenario, psychoanalysis emerges as an outcome and interpreter of the bourgeois culture, which has had started taking shaping during the time of the Big Reforms, and had been spreading among the intelligentsia. The evolution of Russian psychoanalysis is also seen as following the dialectic model of marginality/assimilation, which was applied by Zaretsky to European and American societies in order to see the limits of its application to Russian reality. The Freudian method, born at the beginning of the century as a marginal and elitist phenomenon in Czarist Russia, becomes the object of a process of assimilation on behalf of the state, after the October revolution, and which aims at using it in order to forge, ‘homo sovieticus’. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z