В работилницата на Клио: теория и практика на историята през първата половина на XIX век. Казусът Юрий Венелин
In the Workshop of Clio: Theory and Practice of the History in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. The Case of Yuri Venelin

Summary/Abstract: In the year of the signing of the Peace of Adrianople (1829), the first volume was released of "The Ancient and Present Day Bulgarians in Their Political, Ethnographic, Historical and Religious Relations with the Russians. Historical-Critical Researches". The author of the text is the certified medic and junior Slavicist Yuri I. Venelin (1802 - 1839). Encouraged and supported by university Professor Michael P. Pogodin (1800 - 1875), Venelin extends his historical and philological research and plans to issue several more volumes of the work. His ambition is not so much to explore Bulgarian history in itself, but rather insofar as it relates to the history of Russia. Various circumstances prevented him from fully realizing his creative plans. After the death of his Venelin, his archive and literary legacy have been processed and several more texts have been published under his name. In some of them, however, the initial ideas of Venelin, as they related to Bulgarian and Russian history, were significantly altered. With the active efforts of Russians and Bulgarians, before the end of the nineteenth century, his name has been turned into a synonym of the revival o f the forgotten Bulgarian people and a symbol of its inclusion into the Slavic family. The lost history of the Venelin's unfinished book is a subject of this paper, and so is his general understanding of the way history is to be written. Today, the term „political engineering" is more often used bу anthropologists and sociologists than bу historians. It's used, for example, to characterize the Victorian colonial policy in Malaysia and India. I find the term useful in the study of some aspects of Russian-Bulgarian relations in the nineteenth century, particularly in the context of the popular Russian imperial doctrine of patronage over the Orthodox subjects of the sultan.

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