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PHJ №1 (45) 2025 — S. N. Iskiul. REVIEW OF THE COLLECTIVE MONOGRAPH: KANDAKOU D., STROEV A. LES RUSSES À PARIS AU XVIIIE SIÈCLE SOUS L’OEIL DE LA POLICE. PARIS: L’HARMATTAN, 2024. 736 P.

The present review is devoted to a critical analysis of the aforementioned collective monograph, which was authored by professors of general and comparative literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris). The authors of the monograph are D. Kondakov and A. Stroev, and the title of the monograph is Les Russes à Paris au XVIIIe siècle sous l’oeil de la police (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2024. 736 p.).

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PHJ №1 (45) 2025 — V. V. Shishkin. UNKNOWN LETTER OF HENRY III OF MARCH 10, 1585: ON THE EVE OF THE THE WAR OF THREE HENRYS

The letter of Henry III (1574–1589), the last of Valois, addressed to the French ambassador in Rome at the papal court, seigneur de Saint-Goart (Gouart). The document was submitted to the Archive of the Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a gift on April 14, 2024. This is an order to the ambassador to ask Pope Gregory XIII to approve the royal decision regarding the appointment of a new prior of the Augustinian priory in Perigord, Saint-Etienne Du Peyrat, a certain Elis Patrice. In preparation for a new civil war in France, which remained in history under the name The War of Three Henrys (1585–1589), the king placed in secular and church posts, at court and in the field, the persons who were certainly devoted to him. Henry III removed from the post of prior a supporter of the Dukes of Guise, political opponents of the king, Bishop of Amiens. The reconstruction of events, according to the dorsal notes on the back of the letter, allows to understand the dramatic history of the approval of the royal decision, which eventually took place in 1586. This was due to the expulsion of Saint-Goart from Rome on the orders of the new Pope Sixtus V, and his triumphant return a few months after the restoration of relations between Henry III and the Holy See, under a new name and in a new status, Marquis de Pisany.

PHJ № 3 (35) 2022 – M. N. Baryshnikov. Gorchakovs and operations of Russian steam navigation and trading company in Western Mediterranean

The article examines the nature of the emerging relations between the Minister of Foreign Affairs A.M. Gorchakov and his son Mikhail and the Russian steam navigation and trading company in connection with the functioning of the Western Mediterranean shipping lines focused on the development of transport links with the ports of France and Spain. The study allows not only to evaluate the effectiveness of these relations, but also to more fully present the reasons for the company’s reorientation to the Middle East and Persian areas of operations, determined by Russia’s long-term interests in these regions.