Russian elites facing European norms, models and innovations, from the reign of Peter the Great to 1917
Research in process
SEMINAIRE INTERNATIONAL
Organized by the University Paris I and URFU in the general framework of the 2013-2015 megagrant project.
Paris, 14-15 october 2015
OCTOBER 14 MORNING SESSION
Salle n° 1, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e (métro
Cluny-La Sorbonne, RER Luxembourg, bus 84, 89 arrêt Panthéon)
9.30 am-13am:
General introduction :
Marie-Pierre Rey and Dmitri Redin.
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Sergey Sokolov
The Genesis of Russian Republicanism I. History of the Republic: Novgorod in the
European Perspective of 18th-century Russian Historians
Konstantin Bugrov
The Genesis of Russian Republicanism II. The Contract Dilemma: Contractualism in
Russian Political Thought, 18th – 19th century
1
Olga Ermakova
About the origin of the elites in the context of European technological transfer of
innovations in Russia, 18th-mid 19th centuries”.
Mikhail Kieselev
Fundamental laws” in Russia in XVIII century: reception of the European concept and
its influence on domestic policy.
Alexander Palkin
Religious toleration in the Russian Empire: concepts and confessional policy.
OCTOBER 14 AFTERNOON SESSION
Room n°323 Maison de la Recherche, 1 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris. (métro Odéon)
2.30 pm-5 pm.
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Elena Borodina
The influence of European letter-writing culture on drafting business documents in
Russia of last quarter of the 18th and early 19th centuries
Rodolphe Baudin
Winckelmann and Karamzin. Reflexions on the Introduction of Neoclassicism in
Russia”
PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION around two books published in the general
framework of the megagrant project.
Irina Pochinskaya and Natalia Anufrieva
The Illustrated Apocalypses of Urals. The Eastern Orthodox Tradition and the
Elements of European Cultural Influence, Ural University Publishing House,
Ekaterinburg, 2014.
The book will be presented by Dimtri Redin.
2
Olga Yakhno
Everyday Life in Ekaterinburg (the end of XIX – beginning of XXth centuries): Essays
on Urban Life, AMB Publishing, Ekaterinburg, 2014.
The book will be presented by the author.
OCTOBER 15 AFTERNOON SESSION
Salle n° 1, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e (métro
Cluny-La Sorbonne, RER Luxembourg, bus 84, 89 arrêt Panthéon)
2.30 pm-5 pm.
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Marie-Pierre Rey
Prince Anatole Demidoff and the International Committee to aid the prisoners of the
Crimean War
Elena Alekseeva
Typical features of the diffusion of European technological innovations in the Russian
Empire in the early period of industrial modernization
Michel Tissier
Settling the serfdom issue: on the influence or non-influence of Western experiences in
nineteenth-century Russia
Thierry Claeys
About French investments in Russia, 1857-1917
François-Xavier Nérard :
From Cahors to Kagor : towards an history of Cahors wines in Russia
