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The purpose of this research is the analysis of the residence of Cossack emigrants in Bulgaria in 1920-1939. The main sources used in this research are documents both of emigrant (memories, press/media, documents etc.) and Bulgarian origin. The research was being made upon the principles of objectivity, historicism, with using of historical descriptive method, methods of induction, deduction, systematic and comparative historical analysis. The article analyzes the causes of the emigration of Cossacks from Russia, ...

The paper deals with the first Polish colonial ideology, which unexpectedly started from the real colony, and after word for many years has became utopian. The paper presents the ideology in chronologic order as well as authors of utopian thinking in Poland. During Polish partitions many attempts were overtaken to establish the “New Poland” in many places in the world (Oceania, some places in Africa, South America, etc). It also deals with such colonial episodes as Polish colonization in Siberia by prisoners a...

A.V. Morozova's article deals with the development of Art criticism and Spanish Art research in Russia starting from 1917 up to the present time This sphere has not been investigated in research literature so far. But the knowledge of stages of this development allows us to be better oriented in the historiography of the old Spanish Art of the 15th-18th century. It seems important to take into consideration these stages when analyzing Russian historiography of the Spanish art in the 20th century. The author has an...

In this research, we develop a system, which enables the users to experience past exhibitions on-site, by using AR technology. Our efforts focused on the new methods for using "digital archives" with respect to the spatiality of exhibitions and archives of site-specific or installation art. The purpose of this system is to propose a new use of an archive using AR technology, and to help users acquire various understandings about an exhibition. The system shows interactively the scene of past exhibition on the scre...

From the beginning of its history, film has been considered as ideal synergy of art forms, including painting, literature, music and dance. †Moving pictures' on artists and art belong to a particular group of films. Traditionally, Muses were connected with movement. even today, artists produce images of muses dancing in circle: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Thalia, Terpsyhore and Urania. In my article I write about Cinema as †the Tenth Muse', who quickens the imagination of a film dire...

Composers who have not only created some new operatic forms but have also verbally expressed their respective ideas are understood as the opera reformers. Among them may be named Gluck, Wagner, and Debussy: the latter managed to show another possible path which, as a matter of actual practice, turned out to be different from that of Wagner. The great opera reform is also worth mention: that entails the grounding of the notions of prima pratica and seconda pratica by Vincenzo Galilei and Claudio Monteverdi. Bernd Z...

Debussy's aspiration for novelty of form is embodied in the unique synthesis of procedural and architectonical aspects of form-building: the architectonical profile of form is only a “spatial trace” of intensive evolution of musical material (the structure of the whole as the having become one is the result of all the varieties of the becoming of material). This feature of Debussy's music was determined by the desire to rely on the natural laws of development, not only perceived intuitively, but also understoo...

The paper †Ciuleandra – Variations' for mixed choir, written by the composer Vasile Spătărelu, highlights a Romanian folkloric play from the region of Muntenia-Argeş, particularly known as a dance and holler song with progressive accelerated rhythm, carrying profound symbols which relate to the folkloric practice of magic. Vasile Spătărelu rearranges the whole composition in variations, by using methods such as melodic, rhythmic, metric, harmonic and improvisational transformation, obtaining a series of v...

The byzantine art is the cultural and spiritual emanation of the most enduring form of government in history: the Byzantine Empire. These forms of faith and art have survived to the present day undergoing an outstanding independently historical evolution, free from the conditions that initially created them. A unique event in human history. The characteristics of these forms of art are the spiritual unity, the specificity of each one and the complexity of the cultural system that supports it.

This paper explores transcription and reconstruction problems of manuscript musical sources preserved in new German organ tablature notation. The printed form of this musical notation was used for the first time by Elias Nicolas Ammerbach (ca. 1530 – 1597) in his work Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur [Organ or Instrumental Tablature] (1571). Later, in 17th-century Central Europe, it was used in Lutheran churches mainly to write manuscripts with vocal (or vocal-instrumental) compositions, so-called intabulation. A...

The afore-mentioned buried cache is one of the most interesting and informative archaeological and historical sources. It contains the complex of articles intentionally hidden into the ground after the appointed process of its collecting. Investigation of such finds is one of the actual problems in the world and home archaeology. On the territory of South Siberia the buried treasures (or the so-called В«cachesВ») appeared as long ago as the Mesolithic Epoch. However, they contained complexes of various kinds of ar...

Albanian territories in general and Kosovo in particular has a treasure of historical and cultural heritage. This legacy steadily, over centuries is exposed to destructive activities, either by nature or human factor. In postwar Kosovo has inherited a state of serious historical and cultural heritage, as a result of inadequate treatment of its urban and architectural vandalism, destruction, devastation which is made and even today historical cultural heritage. Sensitivity to these values, and consequently put them...

The problem of the symmetry of key relationship is one of specific problems in the theory of music which has a great urgency for studying of tonal music of Modern times. Opened by english musicologist E. Prout it gained the development in works of the soviet scientists (I. V. Spossobin, L. M. Rudolf, A. N. Dolzhanskiy, Yu. N. Tyulin, M. A. Iglitskiy, Yu. G. Kohn, L. A. Mazel, S. S. Grigoryev, Yu. N. Kholopov). The studying of this problem led to understanding of a divergence between known theories and the real pra...

Archaeological study of the Kazan Kremlin in 1990th years gave varied in compositionof glazed ceramics from Kazan State strata. Over a half refers to imported ceramics. Another part consists of fragments of glazed pottery of two types: red clay pottery with blue glaze and pottery with green and brown glaze. Similar dishes were found at other sites of the Volga-Kama region. Comparative analysis of the elemental composition of pottery with Crimea, glaze with Bulgar sepaja and ceramic fragments from the excavations o...

According to the teaching of the Orthodox Church, the sacred image has existed and is just as old as Christianity itself, which is why one can say that the sacred image is an indispensable attribute of the Christian religion. From an Orthodox perspective, the icon, understood as perceptible representation of the Divine, is not a simple sacred image, because, through it, the believers are given the possibility of an authentic connection to the world of God and of the Saints. The iconographic representations are the...

The present article considers issues relating to the woodworking craft of the population of Altai during the Hunno-Sarmatian period. The article focuses particularly on criteria for the choice and nature of application of various types of wood depending on their physical and chemical characteristics. The composition of woodworking tools during this period is examined, and improvements in comparison with the previous period considered. The state of the woodworking craft is described from the point of view of its le...

Archaeological research based on traditional archaeological methods (typology, style and context analysis) provides a wealth of information concerning ware shape, color, decoration and overall fabric. In order to differentiate between such classificatory schemes, archaeologists often resort to an interdisciplinary approach involving the analysis of the mineralogical composition and geochemical fingerprints of the raw materials use in the pottery manufacture. The Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization developed during t...

Different spectroscopic techniques, in combination with suitable statistical methods of multivariate analysis, can be applied in explorations investigation in various fields, including industry, environment, agriculture, medicine and cultural heritage, for example. For well-known reasons, in analyses of cultural heritage artifacts only full or nearly non-destructive experimental methods must be used. In this paper, we have chosen the ancient metal coin, found on the territory of the present Republic of Croatia and...

The problem of historical and cultural objects destruction in the zone of large reservoirs negative impact is now one of the most pressing problems in the preservation of historical heritage on the territory of Russian Federation. Approximately 36% of the reservoir banks of Russia are being actively destroyed, which leads to permanent withdrawal of large areas from the land use of valuable coastal areas. Two major reservoirs, Kuybyshevskoye and Nizhnekamskoye are located on the territory of the Republic of Tatarst...

Religiously the Tunguses (Evens and Evenks of Yakutia) were the pagans and the shamanism believers. Among them the cult of hunting magic, also of a reindeer and of the Sun was strongly developed. Before the Soviet power among the Evens and the Evenks shamanism was as a national religion. According to the traditional Tungus view, the world was divided into three mental spheres: the upper World, the Middle World and the Lower World. Shamans were the mediators acting between those three worlds, Gods, spirits and men....

The target of this research is most significant and impressive elements of the female costume from archaeological monuments dated to the 1st half of the I millennium ADand located in the Volga-Vyatka Interfluve. The article focuses on a specific type of the costume bronze decorations - arc rattle pendants which are of interest to comprehend local non-ferrous metalworking characteristic features, their artistic value and semantic text. The author provides a general description of the decorations and explores inform...

Current paper aim to investigate the dynamic of a regional settlement-system through cartographic documents and data relating to the landscape around the sites (using satellite images, aerial photographs and geophysical measurements) stored in a geographic information system. We can state that the Middle Bronze Age chiefdoms form peer polities controlling different size territories along single or more valleys. Our approach represents the actual stage of research of the subject;

The aim of the given investigation is to find out various definitions and comparing characteristics of antonyms on the basis of synchronous analyses. The article is dedicated to research of antonyms in different structural languages. In order to reveal the nature of antonyms it is necessary to investigate their essence but concerning this question there is no settled opinion. The review of existed approaches to antonyms in linguistics opens the lack of united view on this problem. There is no satisfactory solution...

"What does it matter who is speaking?" asks Foucault in What is an author?. In that text Foucault proclaims the death of the author, as well as only a few years before he had shown another death, that of the subject. In both cases, it is properly a matter of disappearance: the subject and the author establish the representation, but they disappear from the scene, because they are no more represented, as it happens to Philip IV in Velazquez's picture Las Meninas, to which Foucault devotes the first chapter of The O...

Currently folklore genres are actively researched. Their study exposed the various aspects of folklore . There are lexical, syntactic aspects of genres of folk arts analysis. Also cultural component is studied. Cultural aspect is believed to be of great importance, as it reflects the way people used to perceive surrounding reality hundreds of thousands of years ago. This article analyzes riddles in English and Russian . Comparative study is believed to reveal similar and distinctive qualities both in terms of buil...

The place-names being a linguistic phenomenon reflect different facts and trends related to the development of society. Here are some of them among the regional settlement names: 1) The peculiarities of Perm Krai occupancy reflect in the toponymic productive stems; 2) Toponymy reflects the changes in the system of the types (in a classification) of the geographical objects; 3) Toponymy reflects the changes in social population stratification; 4) Toponymy reflects the standardization trend in the Soviet society; 5)...

During the last decades, the family has undergone some profound mutations in its structure and functions: it has become increasingly sensitive to all changes occurring in society. Consequently, the term family has become more ambiguous and it tends to cover today some different realities than those characteristic to the previous generation. The structure and functionality of the family has a psychosocial character. Doesn't matters the personalities taken in themselves, but their relationship, the interaction betwe...

The article deals with the derivation view of metaphor. The main aim is to present the results of metaphor research connected with our interest in metaphor as a vehicle for cognition and communication. We try to show the view of metaphor, based on the assumption that it is analogous to communicative syntax. The process of metaphorisation is described in terms of mechanisms of text formation reflecting the results of cognition. Such view would differ from traditional ones by being dynamic, cognitive and anthropocen...

A detailed account in the article is given to the empirical findings concerning such insufficiently studied constitutional characteristics of a man as juvenility and gracility. Students sample heterogeneity on these constitutional characteristics is proved. The obtained results reflect differential sex-specific evolutionary development of a modern man, complex nonlinear interaction of juvenility and gracility as a somatotype manifestation.

This paper concentrates upon Roma ways of dealing with illness from the perspective of social anthropology. Social science defines illness primarily as an opposite to the state of health. As such, it is to great extend a subjective and relative phenomenon, determined most of all by the native culture. Ethno medicine, a sub-field of social anthropology, offers for these purposes so called Explanatory model of Arthur Kleinman [9]. The author does not offer practical solutions in her paper. Rather, she points to diff...

Ritual is a form of symbolic action, expressing the connection of a subject with a system of social relations and values. The main theme of any ritual was theme of creation of the world, which resulted in the establishment of people relations system. Ritual performs several vital functions, which are primarily a function of individual socialization, as well as integrating and reproducing function. The function of individual socialization is that the ritual prepares the individual to the social life, nurturing it n...

The given interdisciplinary research regards on the basis of the analysis of literary texts the specificity of the perception of the Holocaust in Latvia that demonstrates transformation of anthropological categories related to the perception of the alien, life, death, responsibility, sinfulness. In the contemporary Latvian cultural space the theme of the Holocaust is given a special place. It is one of the aspects of the interpretation of the events of World War II and the human factor in the context of the war. (...

The research examines the success of implementation of theoretical basis of modern urban typologies in Split, particularly of the thesis that new social environments can achieve spatial and sensorial characteristics similar to those in the town's historic core. The research approaches street as a paradigm of public space in the context of the new city area from 1970s, the so-called Split 3, as well as in the context of the historic core. Insight into the urbanistic plans of Split 3 and both theoretical and practic...

The Christian family, aware of its role as a fundamental cell which is capable of draining the human race, is called to actively engage in the promotion and the defence of human and Christian values. The quasi-generalized crisis of moral, religious, social and material values has its origin mainly in the family crisis. The Christian family must rediscover its own intrinsic value to persistently promote ignored or lost values of our current society. The values constantly rediscovered and promoted by the Christian f...

Paper introduces, upon the context of gender-role divisions, current parental ethnotheories applied to childhood learning in the Czech Republic. It illuminates work-or-care dilemma women are still facing and pinpoints different life strategies that Czech families conclude from it. It introduces a new term – cosmology of education, and relates to it theories of institution-centred learning and unschooling. Data used to support the theory come from longitudinal research on schooling in the Czech society, especiall...

The social representation of work has been shaped by several factors along the history, each having its importance in relation with the cultural context of each era. In the modern secular society, the justification of work has lost its ethical-religious side to a large extent, but, despite its primarily economic determination, one cannot ignore the psychological aspects. By offering to God his work, the person is associated to the redemptive work of the Christ (by considering the work as dignified by the Christ Hi...

Origin of ancient Turkic tribes remains an important issue. As the ancient used to say, "In one thing there is what we know and what we do not know." Therefore, the proposed article focuses on "what we do not know" or rather "do not know much." On the other hand, we know that ethnogenesis of any ethnos (in this case ancient Turkic tribes) proceeds in a long time in the interaction of diverse processes. On that basis the formation process of the ancient Turkic culture should be divided into two conditional stages -...

The term technical image (according to the media theorist Vilem Flusser, its first form was photography, and the last form by now have been images projected in all possible forms of screens, monitors and displays, including holograms) can be understood as a term referring to the beginning of a new age, which is coming after the age of linear writing. Historically as well as ontologically, compared to the previous tradition, these technical images mean rupture, a breakthrough. Creating technical images was the nece...

The concept of freedom has been understood differently in antiquity. Thus, in the classical Greek world, freedom belongs only to a few individuals. In Athens, only free citizens were considered truly free and not slaves and foreigners. Linguistic history of the word "freedom" demonstrates its origin in the society of slave owners. In such society only the master is free, slaves, women and children, over which he reigns are without freedom. Over time, every ideology claimed that defends and promotes freedom, which,...

Illness and suffering are closely related to post-Adamic human existence. Orthodox spirituality teaches us that God never allows suffering beyond endurance. Present suffering is also proportional with one's personal sins or virtues. So that the most afflicted ones either the most sinful or the most righteous. Thus man discovers that meaning of suffering is that of partaking of the passions of Christ and then suffering becomes a ladder ascending towards heaven. The Mystery of the Holy Unction shares grace healing o...

Nowadays many versions of ontology are loosing their meaning completely or partial. It happens because of various reasons. First of all, the development of information technologies and human sciences, which are influence more and more on the life on the contemporary man, and make him to rethink about the problems of being, and contact with it. Secondary, the process of aesthetisation is getting stronger, and that's why increase the role of the being of the things in the everyday structures. In these case, we pay a...

The time - when people lived fixed within their traditional local communities; with a great complex of plentiful values, norms, believes of different types, superstitions and mythology, so meaningful for them, dominantly controlling their lives and reflecting the profound human-nature connection and local specifics; - has gone for most of us until the present time. There are very few traditionally organised and traditions-driven communities left, untouched by the fast-running process of progress and globalisation....

This paper critically analyses the theory of a French cultural critic, city planner and philosopher Paul Virilio. Virilio's texts deal with the impact of speed on the contemporary world. The development of means of transport used by people for the purpose of movement – from horse carts, railways and cars to planes, culminated by the arrival of digitalized audio visual hypertext, the last “vehicle” that replaces its drivers' physical movement by total inertia. How does that historical succession starting with...

This paper focuses on A Lover's Divination Book (1774) by A. Sumarokov, examining its combinatorial nature and its implicit connections with Leibniz's ars combinatoria. The Russian poet-classicist denied Leibniz's philosophical principles but Sumarokov demonstrated combinatorial theory in his literary practice and confirmed the universality of ars combinatoria. Sumarokov's combinatorial method is based on two levels: formal and substantive. The first one includes mathematic combinations which build the composition...

The paper is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the subject of anti-metaphysical tendencies of modern philosophy while in the second part we try to demonstrate how this idea has been transformed by early analytical philosophy, specifically by L. Wittgenstein in his book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. In the third part we will demonstrate that Wittgenstein's later work Philosophical Investigations leads to the negation of the idea that serves as the grounds for the rejection of metaphysics by both...

The world was created very good (Genesis 1: 31), since it no evil affected its existence, reality due to God alone, who wanted that world to be a place of communion between Himself and human being. Perfection heavenly of man gave it the opportunity to join with God, because in his nature were present all virtues as natural attributes of his primordial nature. The problem of human being constitutes focus of theologians and scientists who exhibit an intense concern about the human constitution to determine the statu...

Deleuze and Guattari, in What is philosophy? (1991), expose their Image of Thought; they consider that it is possible to think through three disciplines: Philosophy, Science and Art. In all this structure there is no trace of Politics: why is it absent? We cannot try here to make a "Marxist" distinction between theory and practice, thinking that Philosophy, Art and Science are part of the thought and therefore of the theory, while Politics is placed on a different level, which would be that of action and practice....

Nihilism, through its “disturbing presence” (Friedrich Nietzsche), provokes the basic philosophical question of inner justification of existence. The question of being will be deepened and radicalised so that complete clarity of being will make way for the awareness of one`s dark and mysterious traits. Secularisation can be understood as an opportunity for reinterpretation of religion in a situation where nihilism, through its diagnosis, indicates the therapy of the world. In the research a basis question was ...

The article highlights philosophy of moral conflicts that occur within such civilizational processes as globalization, transformation of information and communication environment, and under the influence of life's contradictions, a man's value system and motivations. Based on the analysis of social thinking development and investigation of the moral core of personality, various interpretations of the problem of freedom and its manifestations in the modern youth's consciousness are discussed. It is stated that the ...

Christian teaching is a doctrine of salvation, rescue and love brought along by Christ, not by a philosophical, abstract and theoretical system. Thus, Christianity is a religion revealed in a different manner as compared to the philosophical currents from the period of Christ and His Apostles, because they were seen as converting people and bringing them on God's path and not as issuing a new philosophy that might compete with the already existing ones. The influence on the development of Christian philosophy apol...