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 ...

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 ...

The article analyses the way Angelo Maria Ripellino translated in 1967 – fifty years after the October Revolution! – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s long poem Lenin for the Turin publishing house Giulio Einaudi. Judging by the words ...

Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996), a Jewish composer born in Poland from a Russian family, took refuge in the Soviet Union during the World War II. He experienced repression due to his origins and family relationships and made ...

The sickness narrative characterizes disease as a process of change, decay and instability, which indicates the need to redefine itself. The most often described subjects of analysis are diseases such as cancer, AIDS and ...

The present article’s objective is the research of nominal formulas of immigrants to the commune of Rab and the foreigners who were in a direct or indirect contact with the commune in the second half of the 14th Century according ...