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PHJ No 4 (36) 2022 – D.Omelchenko. Webinar “Coloured Inscriptions and Analytical Techniques” (Hamburg, 19 October 2021)

This article gives an overview of five papers read by participants in an international webinar held at The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Hamburg) on October 19, 2021. The webinar was devoted to a study of paints made from mineral pigments and preserved in historical monuments. Employees of scientific institutes from Italy, France and Great Britain shared their experience in studying historical monuments with the help of modern non-invasive technologies.

PHJ No 4 (36) 2022 – Y.M.Shepilova, Yu.P.Baskakova, E.I.Nosova, S.L.Itarilova. Technical and technological expertise and attribution of the portrait of S.A.Yesenin

Originally the portrait of S.A. Yesenin was attributed as a photograph dated by 1925. The portrait was not printed on photographic paper, but on typographic paper, since it is too thin and puffy, with no emulsion or barite layers. Microscopy of the image showed that the portrait was printed by phototype, i. e., it is a high-quality reproduction from a photograph. This portrait is one of a series of photos with S.A. Yesenin, made in Baku in photo studio of L.G. Bregadze in 1924. Thus it is revealed that the portrait of S.A. Yesenin under investigation is a reproduction of a photograph, printed on a sheet of offset paper, cut out from a book, brochure or magazine. The date of the portrait was revised: 1924, not 1925, as printed under the portrait.

PHJ No 4 (36) 2022 – A.V.Korchilava, S.P.Elkin, D.S.Prokuratov. Application of digital image correction methods for the analysis of historical objects and cultural heritage

The article describes the implementation of a digital processing program to improve and restore images of museum and archival objects obtained using non-invasive research methods. The practical meaning of this work is to reduce the influence of the human factor on the results of the study, automate the process of diagnosis and obtaining information through numerical processing: improvement, restoration and detailing of image fragments.

PHJ No 4 (36) 2022 – V.Berednikova. Materials of the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documents of St. Petersburg as a source for the study of the partisan movement on the territory of the Leningrad Region

In article the information possibilities of the documents postponed in funds of the Central State Archive of the Historical and Political Documents of St. Petersburg which reflect the history of creation and work of the Leningrad headquarters of the partisan movement on the organization of partisan formations and control of their activity in days of the Great Patriotic War is analyzed. The analysis of archive materials will allow to estimate in a new way a role of the partisan movement in the battle of Leningrad and also degree of its efficiency, the reason of failures and disorganization at the initial stages of existence of the partisan movement and success achieved in 1943–1944.

PHJ № 3 (35) 2022 – V. V. Mirkin. Mobilization forms of labor organization in telecommunications (1940s–1980s, on the example of Siberia)

On the basis of publications of communications periodicals (Vestnik Svyazi, Elektrosvyaz magazines), regional periodics, departmental publications, as well as archival materials, on the example of the Siberian departments, the personnel policy of the Soviet telecommunications industry in the post-war period is considered, the use of various mobilization forms and methods of labor organization. A brief review of such practices is provided.

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PHJ № 1 (33) 2022 — M. M. Safonov. AME DE DENTELLES, OR NATALIA NIKOLAEVNA AND PAVEL ELISEEVICH

For the study of the death of Pushkin, P. E. Shchegolev did more than all the Pushkinists combined. He found, published and commented on the most important documents reflecting the course of the dueling history. The author of the article has consistently reviewed all editions of his famous book and its previous publications. This made it possible to identify the research techniques used by the outstanding researcher of Pushkin, which had a strong influence on Soviet Pushkin studies. The scientist interpreted the sources one-sidedly and biased, setting a biased goal at all costs to make N. N. Pushkin the main culprit of the poet’s death. Even in cases where P. E. Shchegolev knew that the sources were unreliable, but they served to accuse the poet’s wife, the outstanding researcher, whose contribution to Pushkin studies cannot be overestimated, did not stop to use them to create his own concept of the death of Pushkin. It was based on the projection of his own vision of the relationship between a creative person and just a beautiful woman on the relationship between Pushkin and Natalia Nikolaevna. While the true reason for the duel remained unknown to him.

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PHJ № 1 (33) 2022 — N. A. Efimova. MANUSCRIPT FROM THE COLLECTION OF N. V. TIMOFEEV — TRETIAK LYTKIN’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE KRASNOGORSK MONASTERY

The article is devoted to two rare texts, one of which was known only in one list — in a handwritten convolute from the collection of F. F. Mazurin (RGADA). This is the Letter of the Nile Bishop of Tver to Prince Georgy Ivanovich Dmitrovsky. The second copy of the Letter was found in a manuscript book from the collection of N. V. Timofeev, kept in the department of manuscripts of the Library of the Academy of Sciences (BAN). The manuscript is an endowment of the Yaroslavl merchant Tretyak Lytkin to the Krasnogorsk Monastery. The manuscript contains rare extracts, in which “The Word about the narrow and wide path”, the preface to the Ostrog Bible in 1581, etc. The Letter from the Nile Bishop of Tver, which mentions the death of Athanasius of Athos, is a response to an not preserved letter from Prince Georgy Ivanovich. In both manuscripts, the Letter continues with “The Athonite legends” (“Patria” in the translation of Proto Gabriel). Until recently, the list of Legends from the Mazurin collection was considered the only East Slavic list. A comparison of the texts of both the Letter and the Legends showed their closeness, with the exception of minor discrepancies. The manuscript from the BAN collection and the small notebook in convolute from the RGADA collection are close in time of creation and undoubtedly existed in the same place. A codicological study of the manuscript from the Mazurin collection also showed its connection with other books from the endowment of the merchant Tretyak Lytkin to the Krasnogorsk Monastery, kept in the collections of the BAN. The discovery of new lists of rare and interesting texts in the BAN manuscript allows us to take a fresh look at the texts rewritten in the Collection from the collection of F. F. Mazurin.

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PHJ № 1 (33) 2022 — M. B. Sverdlov. PRINCE VLADIMIR SVJATOSLAVITCH WAS NOT THE SON OF THE BONDMAID (ROBITCHITCH)

The article is devoted to explore the annalistic sources on slave birth of prince Vladimir the Grate. According to result of the study this annalistic information is the effect of literary, ideological and political influence on the historical sources. It is not the real historical evidence.