Отечественная история

The relevance of scientific research is due to the fact that the digitalization of the economy today, as well as in the Soviet period, is the key to a country’s competitiveness at the international level. The analysis of the historical experience of production automation in the USSR allowed us to assess the potential, features, and vulnerabilities of this process, and to draw historical parallels with the present day.

The article, relying upon unpublished archival sources, analyzes the use of the healthcare potential as an additional means of creating a positive image of the Soviet Union abroad. The contribution of both the People’s Commissariat for Health and the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS) to the organization of Soviet medical diplomacy in the Iranian direction is demonstrated.

The article examines the activities of local authorities of the Privislinsky Territory of the Russian Empire during the First Russian Revolution of 1905–1907 to ensure state and security. An analysis of the activities of the regional administration to take measures in the fight against local revolutionaries and nationalists was carried out. It is noted that the activities of local authorities in order to restore internal security in the Polish provinces of the state were multifaceted and included the solution of national, confessional, social, land and other issues.

The article presents for the first time the first years of the service of Fyodor Ivanovich Leontyev, the governor of Saratov. Fyodor Ivanovich Leontyev began his service at the court of Tsar Mikhail Romanov as a steward in late 1633, and a few years later he was promoted to the rank of stolnik.

The main business of the life of Michael Nikolayevich Chernyshevski (1858–1924), N. G. Chernyshevski is younger son, was regular study of personal and creative biography of his father, aspiration to keep and promulgate his literary-philosophical heritage. Michael Nikolayevich issued first collected works of N. G. Chernyshevsk’s. The present publication gives notion of the number of copies and the cost of the edition, and also the difficulties with its sale.

The article represents some features of objects of the historical and cultural heritage in Borisoglebsk district of Tambov губернии in 19th century. Borisoglebsk is the second largest in its social-economic and cultural level city in Voronezh region. It is a real city-reserve, counting more than hundreds of historian-cultural and architectural monuments which saved elements of the decorative interior of 19th century. The architectural outlook of the city has been created on base of the published source books on history and archive materials.

The name of Mitrophan Belaiev, who was a wealthy timber merchant and a maecenas, is not as well-known as those of Tretyakov, Morozov and Mamontov in the modern Russian historiography. But contemporaries regarded their contributions to the development of art comparable. Belaiev established «The Glinka Prizes», founded a publishing house in Leipzig «Belaieff Verlag», held the Chamber-music competitions, provided funding for individual grants to needy musicians.

The publication of the congratulatory verses of a veteran of the Napoleon army Nicolas Savin (1787–1894) for the Saratov governor M.N. Galkin-Vrasky are accompanied with the introduction article, which ascertains that the verses are of a low level of literacy of the former non-commissioned officer and hoaxer.

The article deals with the perception of Russian national character by the French who visited this country in the first quarter of the XIX-th century. The issue is analyzed on the basis the French memoirs. The formation of Frenchmen`s idea of the Russian people is studied in consideration with various factors which influenced the perception. The most characteristic features are marked and their correlation with stereotypes of the previous periods is observed.