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This article analyse the portrayal of Eastern ruler as ‘another’ culture by English travellers. The endeavour was to show what were early modern English perceptions of a way of life of the Emperor Jahangir. During the first period of English commercial presence in India, the figuration of a culture was represented by its ruler. This practice homogenized and simplified a culture, making it more easily knowable and thus inferior. In the English travel writing of East, a ruler quickly becomes the focus of the civilized/barbaric binary.

This article describe the poem Heretic by T.G. Shevchenko. Author examine the poem like historical origin and discover peculiarity of Shevchenko`s understanding John Hus and his activity.

The policy of proselitism in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth centuries in the article. The activity of the American Protestant missionaries is shown among the Orthodox Christians and Armenians.

The article is devoted to the methods of writing biographies. A great focus is placed on defining the type and the model of a biographical personality by means of comparative analysis.

Studying the problem of memoria and res publica in a modern historiography includes the investigation of a funeral procession. In the works analysed in this article historians differently consider the priority of functions of historical memory in respect to pompa funebris: K.-I. Hölkeskamp singles out the communicative one, E. Flaig – the proving one, and U. Walter – both of them. E. Flaig’s pays more attention comparing with the other authors to the educational function as well.

Global labor migration is the principal tendency of the current economic development. It is conditioned by the fact that in the age of globalization, the specialization of labor is assuming a transnational character. Labor migration is clause and sequence of the global world trade system.

One of the controversial issues in the American cold war studies still remains problem of public opinion importance for the government in its foreign policies making. Historians try to seek answer on the question: was it really so important for the American government to have people’s support of its foreign policy or it was just trying to have good image of themselves in public opinion, or may be something else? The author of this article makes an attempt to answer this question through domestic information campaigns of 1946-1950 analysis.