Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer
Block I Illinois Library Illinois Open Publishing Network

Digital Humanities Projects

Vol. 9 (2021)

База данных “Россия в западноевропейской прессе XVIII века”

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21900/j.vivliofika.v9.914
Published
2021-12-21

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an educational and research project entitled “Russia in the Western European Press of the Eighteenth Century.” Between 2016 and 2020 students from The Higher School of Economics University in Moscow translated texts of eighteenth-century Western European periodicals related to Russia. In the first part, the authors describe how this work was organized and outline the manner in which the translations are presented on the project website. The second part provides a case study of some news sent by a correspondent in St. Petersburg to The London Gazette in 1714 and 1715. The authors argue that in this period the information received by The London Gazette from St. Petersburg was very close to the dispatches sent to the Secretary of State for the Northern Department by George Mackenzie, the official British resident in the new Russian capital. Although Mackenzie probably did not write to The London Gazette himself, he was apparently involved in the communications, since most of the Russian news was published during the time when the resident was in St. Petersburg. The same correlation between the publication of news received directly from Russia and the period when British diplomats were in residence in Moscow or St. Petersburg can be traced to at least the years between 1709 and 1728. The fact that the above-mentioned example from The London Gazette came to the authors’ attention when it was being edited for publication in “Russia in the Western European Press of the Eighteenth Century” gives hope that other news items included in the online project will become a starting point for more scholars of eighteenth-century Russia.

References

  1. Alekseev, M. P. Russko-angliĭskie literaturnye sviazi: XVIII vek—pervaia polovina XIX veka. Moscow: Nauka, 1982.
  2. Alsop, J. D. “New Light on Richard Steele.” The British Library Journal 25, no. 1 (1999): 23–34.
  3. Alsop, J. D. “Richard Steele and the Reform of The London Gazette.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 80, no. 4 (1986): 455–61.
  4. “American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society.” Accessed 4 November 2021. https://www.gale.com/intl/c/americanhistorical-periodicals-from-the-aas.
  5. Anderson, Matthew S. “English Views of Russia in the Age of Peter the Great.” American Slavic and East European Review 13, no. 2 (1954): 200–214.
  6. Anisimov, E. V. “23.11.1714.” Itinera Petri: Biokhronika Petra Velikogo (1672-1725 gg.). Accessed 4 November 2021. https://spb.hse.ru/humart/history/peter/biochronic/248439952.
  7. “ANNO: Historische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften.” Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Accessed 4 November 2021. http://anno.onb.ac.at.
  8. Black, Jeremy. The English Press in the Eighteenth Century (London: Croom Helm, 1987); Michael Harris, London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole: A Study of the Origins of the Modern English Press. London: Associated University Press, 1987.
  9. Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril, Paul Goring, and Christine Watson, editors. Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
  10. “Browse The National Archives' catalogue.” The National Archives. Accessed 4 November 2021. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C6720313.
  11. Bushkovitch, Paul. Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671–1725. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  12. Cross, A. G. “By the Banks of the Neva”: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  13. Cross, A. G. Peter the Great Through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar Since 1698. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  14. “Discover History As It Happened.” British Newspaper Archive. Accessed 4 November, 2021. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.
  15. Dmitriev, E. E. “Petr I v vospriiatii britantsev kontsa XVII - pervoĭ poloviny XVIII veka.” Dissertation Saratovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet, 2005.
  16. Droste, Heiko, and Ingrid Maier, “Christoff Koch (1637–1711): Sweden’s Man in Moscow.” In Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century, edited by Siv Gøril Brandtzæg, Paul Goring, and Christine Watson, 119-139. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
  17. Hartikainen, Jouko. “News Reporting in the Service of the Crown or for the Readers? The London Gazette’s Content and Reporting about the Great Northern War 1709-1717.” MA dissertation University of Eastern Finland, 2019.
  18. Kristiansen, Johanne. “Foreign News Reporting in Transition: James Perry and the French Constitution Ceremony.” In Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century, edited by Siv Gøril Brandtzæg, Paul Goring, and Christine Watson, 181-202. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
  19. “Liste des titres de périodiques.” Le gazetier universel. Accessed 4 November 2021. http://gazetier-universel.gazettes18e.fr/index.html.
  20. Maĭer, I., and S. M. Shamin. “Obzory inostrannoĭ pressy v Kollegii inostrannykh del v poslednie gody pravleniia Petra I." Rossiĭskaia istoriia no. 5 (2011): 91-112.
  21. Pettegree, Andrew. The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
  22. “Rossiia v Zapadnoevropeĭskoĭ presse XVIII veka.” Vysshaia Shkola Ėkonomiki. Accessed 4 November 2021. https://hist.hse.ru/rwp/Uchastniki.
  23. Sbornik Imperatorskogo russkogo istoricheskogo obshchestva [SIRIO] 50 (1886); 61 (1888).
  24. “Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection.” Accessed 4 November 2021. https://www.gale.com/intl/c/17thand-18th-century-burney-newspapers-collection.
  25. Solar, P. M., and J. S. Lyons. “The English Cotton Spinning Industry, 1780–1840, as Revealed in the Columns of the London Gazette.” Business History no. 53 (June 2011): 302-323.
  26. “The Gazette Official Public Record.” The London Gazette. Accessed 4 November 2021. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/5293/page/1.
  27. The London Gazette nos. 4550 (April 7-11, 1709) through 5722 (February 17-21, 1719).
  28. The National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom. SP 91/8, f. 62. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6720223.
  29. Zhmakin, V. I. “Domovye tserkvi v Sankt-Peterburge pri Petre I.” Pribavlenie k Tserkovnym vedomostiam no. 32 (1903): 1207.