The models of manipulative communication in the dialogues of the characters of F. M. Dostoevsky are highlighted in terms of their artistic functions in the narrative. The material for the research is the texts of the novels by F. M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”, “The Idiot”, “Demons”, “Teenager” and “The Brothers Karamazov”. Particular attention is paid to plot-forming and character-forming functions. It has been established that the plot-forming functions of dialogues with elements of manipulative communication lie in the fact that they psychologically prepare future plot twists or act as a direct impetus to change a particular plot situation, embodying the narrative setting for reticence, silence, hiding “sore spots” in the minds of characters. The analysis revealed that the character-forming functions of dialogues with elements of manipulative communication lie in the artistic embodiment of dramatic relationships between the characters, often at turning points in their lives, when the complex and intense inner life of the character is suddenly revealed to readers. It is shown that the use of certain manipulative techniques by the addressee does not always lead to a violation of the postulates of cooperative communication or the principle of politeness: in a number of cases, manipulation in the addressee's zone may have the goal of just observing the postulate of tact. It is concluded that the use of the analyzed manipulative strategies serves as an artistic means of revealing the character of the hero in speech, when the character, imperceptibly for himself, reveals his inner world to the reader.

The object of the article is the conjunction khot’… khot’..., and the subject is its morphological and syntactic properties. The relevance of the work lies in its direct focus on solving problems related to the description of the service fund of the Russian language. The scientific novelty is due to the fact that for the first time in Russian studies, the semantics of the conjunction khot’… khot’... is described on the basis of its constructive properties, which are characterized by the word forms related to the union, the principles of their relationship with each other, as well as external links with the syntactic structures in which they are involved. The theoretical significance lies in the proposed description algorithm, which can be used to characterize similar means of syntactic communication. It has been established that the semantics of the conjunction khot’… khot’... is focused on the minimum that the speaker and listener should be content with, and is also closely related to the category of desirability, due to the internal form of its structural components, etymologically ascending to the basis of the presentfuture tense of the verb want. Proceeding from this, the semantics of the conjunction khot'… khot'... can be defined as the desire of the speaker to fulfill himself or to provide the listener with a free, but at the same time minimally sufficient choice from the proposed alternatives both in the upper and lower semantic limits.

The question of replacement in the synonymic pair last — latest is considered. Attention is paid to the characteristics of speech stereotypes and types of frames that form substitution in a synonymic pair. The results of a comparative analysis of the heuristics of linguo-creative thinking with the level of speech culture of communicants using catachresis in this pair are presented. The study of replacements in ontological coverage is carried out, taking into account the lexicosemantic, cognitive, generistic, extralinguistic, linguocultural and orthological aspects. The variety of functions of the studied synonymic pair in various types of discourse is described. The relevance of the study is due to the ongoing linguistic fashion to replace the lexeme last with the word latest. The authors dwell on the study of memes related to synonymous replacement, identifying their functions and features. It is shown that when the function of artistic figurative concretization of the depicted is actualized, a mimetic character is manifested in the application of this substitution. The parameters of social reality, which caused the replacements in the synonymous pair of the language fashion of the “first and second wave” are determined. A characteristic of the pragmatic meanings of reflexives in newspaper discourse is proposed in relation to the functions they perform. It is shown that the substitute latest becomes a reflexoid.

Folk ideas about cinematic art and cinematography are studied. The recordings of the speech of the inhabitants of the Vologda Territory, made by the author of the article in the period from 1988 to 2021, as well as citation material recorded in the published issues and card file of the Dictionary of Vologda Dialects, are analyzed. A relatively late entry of cinema into the everyday life of the northern village is established (late 60s — 70s of the XX century). The priority of human biological survival in difficult natural conditions determines the attitude towards cinema as a form of spending free time in accordance with the routine of daily and calendar peasant work. The device of the village society serves as a kind of “filter” for the perception of the plotthematic, character and aesthetic components of cinema: the rural viewer perceives the sphere of cinema as bright and attractive, but nevertheless redundant for village life and unsafe for public morality. Only that which is within the circle of interests of the peasant, that is of value or anti-value for him, is verbalized. The traditional nature of the dialectal picture of the world is manifested, on the one hand, in the desire to enter a new form of “urban culture” into the circle of rural entertainment, and on the other hand, in the use of well-established lexical and phraseological means and genre forms in the practice of discussing the subject, axiological and actional components of the cinema sphere. 

The problem of linguocultural lacunarity in literary translation is considered. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time ethnolinguistic lacunae, represented by Turkic ethnographisms, are studied in the text of the original novel by G. Sh. Yakhina (2015) and its translation into Chinese by Zhang Jie and Xie Yuncai (2017). The material was the Turkisms of the novel by G. Sh. Yakhina “Zuleikha opens her eyes”, commented by the author in the appendix “Dictionary of Tatar words and expressions”. The article discusses the ethno-linguistic approach to the study of Turkisms (Albasty, Kaplau, Shurale, etc.), which includes: analysis of the etymology of the word, its linguo-ethnic status, functonal specificity, background information. It is proved that ethnolinguistic lacunarity is manifested not only through the extralinguistic component of the word and its national and cultural marking. The proposition is substantiated that the conjugation of the linguocultural Tatar-Russian contact is lacunar, which is “read” in the original text, but not in its translation. It is proved that the main way to eliminate lacunae is compensation, which allows to most fully recreate the ethnolinguistic specificity of reality. It is established that the methods of explication and generalization are frequent, which contribute to the preservation of the ethnolinguistic originality of the work.

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the Arctic is a unique northern territory of the globe, interest in which has recently increased due to geopolitical reasons, its natural resources and the cultural diversity of the peoples inhabiting it. The question of the content of the terms ‘Nordicity’, ‘imagined / imagination of the North’ in the works of foreign and Russian scientists in the humanities is raised in the article. It is revealed that these terms are associated with an ensemble of concepts and discourses united by the themes of the North and the Arctic, objectified in cultural texts: both verbal and non-verbal. The hypothesis that these terms are equivalent in content and structure to the term ‘concept sphere of discourse’, adopted in Russian linguistics is substantiated in the article. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that the definition of the terms ‘Arctic discourse’ and ‘the concept sphere of the Arctic discourse’ is proposed. ‘The Arctic discourse’ is defined as a complex discourse representing a set of cultural texts united both by the Arctic and by a broader northern theme; its sign correlates can be various socio-cultural practices. ‘The concept sphere of Arctic discourse’ is understood as a set of concepts and images in a complex Arctic discourse dedicated to the representation of the Arctic as a geopolitical and geocultural space.

The linguo-axiological specificity of the English-language dramatic discourse is revealed through the prism of the speechgenre organization of the dialogue. The relevance of the work is due to the appeal to the problems of discursive-communicative linguoaxiology as a scientific direction, which is at the stage of formation of an independent research platform. The reasons for the linguo-axiological loading of the dramatic discourse are revealed, and the author's development of a linguo-axiological model of speech genres implemented within the limits of the British and American dramaturgical dialogue of the 20th and 21st centuries is proposed. The author dwells on five systemic parameters that form the linguo-axiological speech-genre model and substantiates the variants of their communicative manifestation. A sample of the matrix actualization of the proposed model is demonstrated on the example of a specific speech genre “small talk” when it is included in the format of a stylized dialogic interaction. The results of a comparative linguo-axiological analysis of textual realizations of the indicated speech genre are presented on the basis of four spatio-temporal fragments of the English dramatic discourse. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that for the first time it applied the provisions of the theory of speech genres in the linguo-axiological interpretation of a stylized dialogue. It is concluded that the developed linguo-axiological model provides an opportunity to trace both the poly-aspect dynamics of the linguo-axiological indicators of the speech genre along the time axis, and its nationally marked specificity when updated within the dramaturgical dialogue. 

Based on the texts of the British expert Matthew Bown, the article deals with the issue of constructing a narrative about the Soviet fine arts. The aim of the study is to analyze the patterns of narrative formation and identify its significant elements. The frame CREATING NEW ART serves as the cognitive basis of the narrative. This frame is characterized by variability and has two main configurations, which can be represented as two scenarios. These scenarios differ in the composition of the actors and the content of the tasks they solve. The actors of the first scenario, actualized in the narrative within the framework of the “friend or foe” opposition, are the ideologists of socialist realism, party leaders and representatives of the creative elite. Their tasks include the formation of the ideology and content of the new art. The actors of the second scenario, updated within the framework of the opposition “self / other”, are Soviet artists. Their task is to develop a language of art that meets ideological requirements and at the same time realizes their creative potential. The article substantiates M. Baun’s willingness to see in socialist realism not only an ideological trend, but also a significant artistic direction. This approach contributes to the disclosure of the value component of socialist realism painting and the transmission of the historical cultural memory of this phenomenon to the world community.

The textual clip AND THEN from the point of view of its formation as a service unit and from the point of view of the specifics of the contexts in which it functions is considered. The research material is taken from the National Corpus of the Russian Language. The relevance of the work is due to the fact that the object of study is of interest both in terms of a multidimensional study of the system of functional words in general and specialized means of text communication, in particular, and in the aspect of studying the principles of organizing the text itself, forming its content and structure. It is argued that the semantics of succession the elements that make up the clip AND THEN was the basis for the development of the textual function of the clip. The connective semantics of the clip is substantiated on the basis of its function of introducing an additional message and a marker for changing the aspect of the discussion of one topic. It is proved that the textual clip does not indicate the relationship of succession between propositions, but the sequence in the development of the speaker’s thought. Particular attention is paid to the classification of typical contexts of the clip, built considering the nature of the relationships within the text fragments connected with the clip. It is concluded that the textual clip AND THEN has both the ability to thematic organization of the text, and the signs of an indicator of logical-semantic relations.

The work was carried out in line with the current idea of the Internet as a global media that interacts with various sign systems and influences the structural and compositional features of the verbal text. The relevance of the study is due to the formation of the concept of intermediality in the context of a new cultural direction, called “metavirtualism”. The aim of the article is to characterize the principles underlying the structure and composition of the network poetic “book”. Russian-language poetic cycles are considered, the structural and compositional features and expressive means of which are associated with Internet technologies. Such aspects as the type of intermediality and ways of organizing the structure and composition of the network “book” are analyzed; the reader’s way of getting acquainted with the work and the degree of freedom of this way; manifestation of the category of ephemerality. It is concluded that technological poetry, paradoxically, strengthens traditional book forms, but also has an independent value, visualizing poetic images and metaphors. Internet technologies can be “embedded” into the structure and composition of a poetry book at various levels: it can be relative autonomy; interaction at the level of a conceptual metaphor explicated with the help of Internet media (Google maps); almost complete fusion of media.

The article is devoted to the study of pragmalinguistic means of political discourse. The material was transcriptions of speeches by British Prime Minister B. Johnson and US President D. Biden, published on the official websites of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. The authors set themselves the task of studying communication tactics that update the main directions of policy regarding COVID-19. The relevance of the work is due to the constructivist approach to the language. Political discourse is one of the ways to actualize power and control in society. The analysis revealed two groups of tactics that affect social consciousness and behavior: tactics of negative representation and tactics of positive representation. The tactics of negative representation of the pandemic include the following: emphasizing the threat, modeling a negative scenario, attracting negative experience. Positive representations are created through the use of tactics such as highlighting achievements, modeling a positive scenario, solidarity, appeals to duty, persuasion and appeal. It is shown that the linguistic means of updating the identified tactics have a targeted impact on the emotional sphere and on the consciousness of citizens, being a strong argument in favor of vaccination. The analysis carried out contributes to the understanding of the discursive mechanisms of influence on the mass consciousness.

The features of media framing of ideas about the strategically important industrial region for Russia in the American media is discussed in the article. A noticeable increase in foreign journalistic publications covering the problems of the Chelyabinsk region in the period from 2010 to 2021 determines the relevance of studying the generation of meanings about the South Urals as a subject of an open global society. In theoretical and methodological terms, the study is based on the achievements of foreign and domestic discourse studies, cognitive linguistics and the theory of cognitive-discursive world modeling. The material for the analysis was 271 texts selected by continuous sampling from 82 American editions of the last eleven years. The sociological interpretation of frame structures as interpretative schemes is taken as a basis. The concept of representational structure is refined and used to designate the discursive world as a conceptually complex unit of analysis, correlated with the processes and results of representing an industrial region in American media. The frame structures constituting the discursive world are revealed. It has been established that they determine the perception of the region through the prism of a limited set of characteristics included in the macroframes CULTURAL IDENTITY and SECURITY AND PROTECTION. The study contributes to media linguistics, discourse studies, and philological urban studies.

The object of the research is Internet memes that constitute the thematic group “Grand Coalition” and appeared during the reign of the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany 2018–2021. Internet memes selected under the given denotative and temporal features are analyzed in dynamics within N. A. Zinoviev’s typology, based on a set of dichotomies (“truth — lie”, “character — event”, “tradition — innovation”, “background — figure”, “image — text”, “thought — action”). A conclusion is made about the field organization of the Internet meme structure. This structure includes the remaining constant kernel formed by the visual template and the generalized meaning of the Internet meme. It is shown that the specificity of the functioning of the precedent phenomenon as part of Internet memes lies in its transformation through the distribution or replacement of elements and subsequent reinterpretation. The very development of the Internet meme, its successful promotion online supposes the decontextualization of the primary meme and its further recontextualization in new communicative situations. The precedent phenomena involved are most often the conductors of negative meanings. The following signs of the grand coalition are regularly reflected in Internet memes — incapacity, mistrust on the part of citizens, and a bad reputation of its members.

The article deals with Internet memes that function in the professional community of lawyers in the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki as a polycode text. The question is raised about the grounds for the analysis of Internet memes. The purpose of the study was to consider the semiotic organization of Internet memes of the professional community of lawyers. The relevance of the study is related to the need to study the features of speech practces determined by the forms of informal communication within such a social structure as the professional community of lawyers. The novelty of the research is seen in the development of analysis parameters that take into account the specifics of the Internet meme as a kind of polycode text, due to the peculiarity of the professional community of lawyers. An analysis of Internet memes is presented for a number of reasons. It has been established that textual memes and creolized memes, in which the text component plays a leading role, prevail quantitatively. Images in Internet memes have a high artistic and general cultural potential, which indicates a high level of the general culture of the authors and recipients of Internet memes. The semiotic analysis of Internet memes gave an idea that the professional community of lawyers significantly influences all parameters of the description of Internet memes functioning in it, which allows us to make an assumption about the existence of a specific unofficial discursive area of the corresponding professional discourse. 

The article offers a new perspective of the interpretation of the poem by I. Brodsky “The Autumn cry of a hawk” (1975). If the text is traditionally considered as the realization of the theme “the poet and the crowd”, then the nostalgic motifs of “the autumn cry” are highlighted in the work. It is shown that the first years of emigration formed certain milestones in Brodsky’s mind that required “intermediate” results, and the year 1975, the third year of emigration, actualized the motives of the “native nest” in the poet’s mind. However, unlike the usual angles of homesickness, the worldview of the herobird Brodsky outgrows the limits of nostalgic feeling, but acquires the features of an ontological myth about the laws of the existence of the Universe. The motives of the individual’s fate, freedom / lack of freedom of the individual obscure the motives of homesickness in Brodsky’s text, but the latter do not disappear without a trace, but are marked with a number of “American” and “Russian” details, images, word forms. The multiplicity of geographical toponyms (Connecticut, New England, Rio Grande), the redundancy of signs of “alien” reality (13 American states, “English” speech) allow us to explicate the invisible contrast “your own and others’ ”, reinforced by the antitheses “up / down”, “heat / ice”, “North / South”. The distinct plot of the poem (the flight of a hawk to his native places) turns out to be an important semantic entourage that enhances the depth of poetic perception.

The article deals with the problem of correlation between tradition and experiment in the system of verse by V. V. Nabokov. The subject of the study is the specifics of non-identical stanzas, which until now have been considered by literary critics as simple and traditional forms of Nabokov’s verse. The corpus of non-identical stanza poems was compiled as a result of the analysis of all available Russian-language texts by Nabokov: 78 non-identical stanza texts were identified in 658 monometric works, links of polymetric compositions, summary forms. It has been established that 74 models of verse (combinations of poetic meters and stanza schemes) are implemented in them. The analysis of signs of non-identity of stanzas was carried out: differences in the number of lines, rhyming, catalectics, metrical structure were recorded. It is determined that the most typical for the poet is the discrepancy between the rhyme scheme and the type of endings. The composition of the texts is described: the proportions and specificity of the structure of regular and irregular stanzas are characterized. As a result of comparing the obtained data with data on the verses of 22 Russian poets of the 19th-20th centuries, it is proved that Nabokov’s non-identical stanzas are experimental in nature, are among the forms that determine the originality of the poet’s work in the context of the Russian literary tradition.

The article brings about the issue of book reminiscences in the live speech of the bearers of the Old Believers’ tradition of Prikamye. Reflecting religious consciousness, they have dogmas about the meaning of life and laws of morality; reveal the essence of ethical guidance. Attention is paid to the functions of reminiscences, the ways of their use: introduction of the name of a Christian character or the name of a sacred object into the statement, inclusion of the names of precedential artifacts in live speech, the use of phraseological units from the texts of traditional literature and allusions. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that the Old Believers actively used references to the biblical, hagiographic and apocryphal texts. Book inclusions are endowed with worldview and didactic meanings; they express an analogy between the facts of Christian history and the phenomena of real life. It is proved that the use of elements of religious texts revives the meanings of these texts in the mind of a native speaker, endows oral speech with the properties of intertextuality. The use of religious reminiscences is characterized by their broad variation, due to the conditions of oral dialect communication, and reflects the decline of religious literacy. The relevance of the study is conditioned by the fact that the images of book and written culture involved in everyday speech remain a littlestudied means of expressing the complex world of feelings and emotional experiences of a believer.

The novel of the modern Austrian writer Norbert Gstrein (born 1961) “Die englischen Jahre” (1999) is studied as an experience of critical rethinking of the “Austrian identity” in the context of “national identity” (R. Menasse). The relevance of the study is due to the need to comprehend the phenomenon of “Austrian literature” in the second half of the 20th — early 21st centuries. A review of the most significant works of Gstrein is made, it is proved that the novel “The English Years” is a “turning point” in the writer's work. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that until now Gstrein’s work has not been an object of study in Russian literary criticism. The concept of a narrative strategy is involved in the study, the methods and specifics of the implementation of the “narrative strategy of skepticism”, which actualizes the author’s position to a critical attitude to historical events, are considered. The question is raised about the influence of the “narrative strategy of skepticism” on the reception of the novel. It is proved that the “narrative strategy of skepticism” allows us to trace the changes in the development of the plot of the novel, to identify the features of its poetics, to realize the semantic content of the text when considering the problem of identity on the example of a biographymyth. The methodological basis of the work is the research of foreign and domestic scientists concerning Austrian literature, as well as the nature of the narrative strategy implemented in the genre of the novel.

Based on the analysis of the published materials of the journal “Siberian Questions”, the article reconstructs the image of migrants heading beyond the Urals in the course of implementing the state policy that was carried out in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The main facets of this image are determined, including the composition of the settlers, their property status, sources of information and the degree of awareness of the new place of residence. Particular attention is paid to such aspects as incentives for resettlement, the perception of difficulties and the nature of the economic development of the territory, relations with old-timers and interaction with officials. It is considered to what extent the identified features are reflected in other sources, remain topical throughout the entire period of publication. The relevance of the study is due to the ongoing discussion about the assessment of resettlement policy, as well as the largescale changes that followed it. The author gives a holistic description of the image of the settlers, draws a conclusion about its ambiguity and offers his own explanation for this. The main sources of work were the materials of the journal “Siberian Questions”, as well as documents from the funds of the Tyumen Museum-Education Organization, some of which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.

The manifestations of the “church revolution” at the parish level in the Nizhny Novgorod diocese in the spring and summer of 1917 are considered. The novelty of the study lies in the research of the “parish revolution” at the local level based on the analysis of unpublished documents of the Nizhny Novgorod Spiritual Consistory, the provincial commissioner, etc., introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The author singled out the following manifestations of the “revolution” in the Nizhny Novgorod parishes: the unauthorized setting of prices by the peasants for the fulfillment of the requirements, the refusal to pay diocesan taxes, the robbery of church cash desks, the protests of parishioners against some priests, the arrests, robberies and expulsions of objectionable pastors, conflicts between the higher and lower clergy, the seizure peasants of church lands. The author comes to the conclusion that the cases in which priests became victims of arbitrariness, nevertheless, were not widespread in the diocese. It is shown that the diocesan and local secular authorities could not cope with the manifestations of the “parish revolution”. It is concluded that the “parochial revolution” caused some material damage to the diocese, aggravated the financial situation of some of the clergy, undermined the authority of the spiritual authorities, and increased the contradictions between the higher and lower clergy.

The article is devoted to the problem of the arrest of suspects in Russia in 1725—1741. As a result of the analysis of historiography and historical sources, the author came to the conclusion that the history of the court in Russia in the early modern period is inextricably linked with the history of places of detention, since Russian prisons of the 18th century were intended primarily to hold defendants, and not to punish criminals. The study of normative legal acts of the middle of the 17th century — 1741 showed that the arrest as a measure necessary for the timely presentation of litigants to the court was officially stipulated for the first time in the decree “On the form of the court” of November 5, 1723. A comparison of the norms of laws and the actual practice of legal proceedings of central and regional institutions revealed that the institution of arrest of suspects and defendants was not properly regulated. It was a “blind spot” in legislation that led to prison overcrowding. The rule on the arrest of suspects was aggravated by the introduction in the reign of Peter the Great of a revision-decisive procedure for approving sentences and reviewing court cases, which concerned serious crimes, and a significant extent of the territory of Russia.

The organizational formation of the system of state management of the Arctic development processes in the USSR during the first fiveyear plans, is considered. The relevance of considering the problems of the development of the Arctic during the period under review is due to the growing interest in this issue in modern conditions. The activities of the Arctic Commission formed under the government, which was entrusted with the role of a single coordinator of state events and a center for regulating the activities of various institutions and departments in the Arctic region, are shown. Attention is drawn to the initial period of activity of the government commission, associated with the country's adoption of a course towards industrialization and the transition to a system of planned regulation of the economy. Under these conditions, the installations of scientific expeditions that had previously explored the Arctic possessions began to transform radically, the transfer of research work to solving applied, economic problems began. On the basis of archival sources, it has been established that the Arctic Commission initiated and led a huge complex of works on organizing and coordinating research and practical economic work in the north of the country. It is concluded that during the years of the first fiveyear plans, the process of development of the Arctic territories of the USSR entered a turning point in its development. The most important component of the new stage in the development of the Arctic was the transfer of managerial initiative in organizing work in the north of the country into the hands of the state.

The article deals with the activities of the official of the Maritime Ministry B. P. Mansurov, sent in 1856 by Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich to the Turkish East in order to compile a guide for pilgrims and collect information about their situation in Palestine. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that Mansurov's activities marked the beginning of the construction of infrastructure for Russian pilgrims, called ‘Russian Palestine’. The material for the study are three reports by Mansurov. It is shown that the first report was dictated by the rivalry between the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs A. M. Gorchakov. Attention is paid to the second version of the report, handed over to the emperor and ministers, in which criticism of the Foreign Ministry was smoothed over. Particular attention is paid to the fact that, under the influence of Gorchakov, Mansurov tried to remove the most acute political problems from the third version of the report, which was already sent to senior officials. It is proved that Mansurov’s report received a wide response and became the subject of consideration by the Committee of Ministers. The issue of the further fate of Mansurov’s report, published in the form of a book entitled “Orthodox worshipers in Palestine”, which was supposed to draw attention to the problem of pilgrims and raise funds to help them, is considered.

The article is devoted to the history of office work in the first half of the 19th century, using the example of the workflow of the Department of Appanages. On the basis of published materials and archival sources, the author examines the general principles of office work of state institutions of the Russian Empire, explores the evolution of document flow in the first half of the 19th century, evaluates the effectiveness of measures to reduce document flow, and identifies common and different features of the evolution of office work of the Department of Appanages. The office work reform in the Russian Empire had a complex character. Both the form of documents and the principles of circulation of documents have undergone changes. The effectiveness of the work of the governing bodies was assessed by the number of incoming and outgoing documentation. Despite the fact that the basic principles laid down by the office work reform were of a nationwide nature, they could acquire their own specific features in the state institutions themselves. In the Department of appanages, this was due to the gradual removal of the management of the appanage from the competence of other authorities of the Russian Empire. In the second quarter of the XIX century the exclusive right to manage all internal issues relating to the department was finally assigned to the specific authorities, which were directly subordinate to the emperor through the minister.

The activities of the Society for the Protection and Preservation of Monuments of Art and Antiquity in Russia, which launched a multifaceted work on the Crimean Peninsula in 1909—1917, are considered. The stages of preparation by the devotees of the monument protection sphere of a unique card file of cultural heritage objects in the territory of Crimea are shown. Special attention is paid to the activities in this direction of K. F. Bogaevsky, N. I. Repnikov, M. I. Rostovtsev. Attention is paid to the attempts of employees to establish the correct organization of the archaeological research of Chersonese. An interesting fact is the Society’s support for the petition of archaeologists to establish a museum in Evpatoria and organize a museum in the Khan’s Palace of Bakhchisaray. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that for the first time in historiography, the activities of the organization for the study, fixation and protection of the Crimean archeological monuments in the southern region of the empire are revealed. The relevance of the study is due to the interest in the experience of the Society on a global scale. The author draws attention to the fact that, despite the loss in the revolutionary years of the unique monument card files collected by art historians and archaeologists, its Crimean part is partially duplicated in the personal archival fund of the organizer of the scientific study of Crimea A. I. Markevich.

The process of the labor collective formation of the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant during the Great Patriotic War is studied. The relevance of the study is due to the need for a detailed study of the mechanisms of the automotive industry functioning in the extreme conditions of the Great Patriotic War. Documents on the history of the enterprise evacuation, materials of the primary party organization of the automobile plant, office work documentation of the party and state authorities, factory and departmental reports, and eye-witness accounts of the events were used as sources. The process of creating the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, constructed on the basis of the evacuated equipment and labor resources of the Moscow Automobile Plant named after I.V. Stalin (ZIS), is considered. Changes in the number and composition of the enterprise's employees during 1941—1945 are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the interdependence of the change in the number of employees of the plant on the volume of industrial output. It is concluded that thanks to the evacuation of experienced engineers, production managers and highly skilled workers, it was possible to maintain and recreate hightech production in the rear areas of the country. It was noted that the enterprises created during the evacuation laid the foundation for the development of automotive production in the Volga region and the Urals.

The sociocultural changes in the rural population of the Yenisei province at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries are considered in order to identify their nature and dynamics in the context of a complex dichotomy of traditionality and modernity. The factors that influenced the inter-class movements of peasants, the dynamics of vertical mobility, the formation of a new socio-cultural type of the peasantry are revealed. Based on the analysis of administrative statistics published in the “Memorable Books”, materials of the First All-Russian Population Census of 1897, as well as “Proceedings of local committees on the needs of the agricultural industry” in the Yenisei province and newspaper and magazine journalism, the author comes to the conclusion that the intensity of the migration flow, sharply increased at the beginning of the 20th century, gave rise to the contradictory dynamics of sociocultural processes in the Yenisei village. On the one hand, it contributed to the activation of the mobility of the rural population, overcoming the cultural isolation of the peasant communities, and accelerated the formation of a new social stratum — the rural intelligentsia. On the other hand, the conservation of class restrictions on the peasantry, the unwillingness of the imperial authorities to extend new social and civil institutions to Siberia, not only hampered the positive dynamics, but also led to the accumulation of protest potential.