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Laudation

Laudatio

Author(s): Sorina Bălănescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 12/2011

In the unusual warp of dreams and reality which You have enriched the world of Romanian and European theatre with, one can see, even from Your early stage productions, the constancy of a guiding thought expressed many years ago in a commentary upon Camil Petrescu’a aesthetic – as, when writing about Camil, the newly-graduate of Bucharest Institute of Theatre and Film, David Esrig, was also writing about himself, in lines proving his confraternity in the inclination towards absolute itself.

Sakhalin as Cause Celebre: The Re-signification of Tsarist Russia’s Penal Colony

Sakhalin as Cause Celebre: The Re-signification of Tsarist Russia’s Penal Colony

Author(s): Andrew Gentes / Language(s): English / Issue: 32/2012

During the mid-1860s Russia’s penal labor institution known as katorga entered what Alexander II’s government recognized was a “state of collapse.”1 Established by Peter the Great, katorga had for most of its existence been cen¬tered among the mines and smelteries of the Nerchinsk Mining District east of Lake Baikal. However, these mines’ exhaustion, poor management and mainte¬nance, and a surfeit of convicts (particularly from the mass deportations follow¬ing the 1863 Polish Uprising) had transformed katorga into a losing proposition in both fiscal and penological terms. By the late 1860s Petersburg decided new arrangements were needed for its 14,000 penal laborers (katorzhane). The island of Sakhalin seemed a solution. Eastern Siberia’s Governor-general Nikolai N. Murav’ev dispatched reconnaissance expeditions there during the 1850s; and following annexation of the Amur region, Sakhalin attracted official interest as a natural fortress guarding the mouth of the Amur River. But not until 1875, when the Treaty of St Petersburg eliminated Japan’s competing claims, did Russia formally annex the island.

Towards Essence, Through Image

Către esenţă, prin imagine

Author(s): Victor Mihăilescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 15/2013

Keywords: expressionism; image; visual; theatre; art

: Living phenomenon, which is in constant need of redefinition, theater almost has developed its own consciousness, with which, from time to time, seeks for analogies, bridges, possible connecting factors. The image was, along the theatre history, an important issue. Through it, in the last century, the act of representation itself has become a bridge between different fields of art, uniting fine arts and cinema. A remodeling of the concept of image was made at the beginning of the 20th century by the expressionist current, which reformulated the theoretical and aesthetic principles of the theatre, offering a new perspective both in the technical sector of representation and the causal sequence word-interpretation-visual. Artistic expressive function of the image, as we know it today, comes as a legacy left to theatrical art by expressionist artists, and its persistent influences in modern theater range from dramatic manner to director's vision, from the written play to the stage show.

The Ideal Library/ Memory and Remembrance

Biblioteca ideală/ Memorie şi rememorare

Author(s): Author Not Specified,Ileana Oancea / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 02/2003

Keywords: books; island; memory; space; contemporaneity; memorability

This issue tries to recompose the ideal library out of the preferences of a number of qualified readers (selected from among various Romanian writers). Each respondent offers his/her own all-time literary top 10; the readers will find out which books are preferred by Gabriela Adameşteanu, Adriana Babeţi, Balasz Imre, Paul Eugen Banciu, Annamaria Beligan, Pia Brînzeu, Andrei Corbea, Marcel Corniş-Pope, Octavian Doclin, Constantin Gurău, Ilie Gyurcsik, Adina Kenereş, Ion Bogdan Lefter, Viorel Marineasa, Mircea Mihăieş, Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Ioan T. Morar, Carmen Muşat, Leonard Oprea, Lucian Petrescu, D. R. Popa, Simona Popescu, Vasile Popovici, Alex Leo Şerban, Robert Şerban, Magda Teodorescu, Vladimir Tismăneanu, Marcel Tolcea, Cornel Ungureanu, Tudorel Urian, Mircea Vasilescu, Ciprian Vălcan, Gilda Vălcan, Christina Zarifopol-Illias, Ioan Vultur. The last page completes this special classification of books with Ileana Oancea's positive review of a recent volume edited as a hommage to its central figure, Mr. Marius Sala, prestigious member of the Romanian Academy.

Translating the Diaries of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in Communist Romania

Translating the Diaries of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in Communist Romania

Author(s): Oana Purice / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: Russian translation; Communism; Ion Ianoși; diaries; Dostoevsky; Tolstoy;

My paper will discuss the critical grounds that preceded the translation of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy’s diaries into Romanian, published by Univers Publishing House in 1974 and 1975-1976 respectively, focusing on the Prefaces written by Ion Ianoși. Relying on both historical studies and relevant documents of the 1947-1989 period, I will start by generally describing, on the one hand, the process of the Russian and Soviet translations into post-War Romania and, on the other hand, the Communist regime’s views and practices in translating and publishing autobiographical literature.Leftist intellectual who fulfilled his academic education in USSR and worked in the Central Committee for almost nine years, Ion Ianoși is a key-figure in analyzing the incipient reception perspective of the two Diaries; collating the 70s Prefaces with their post-Communism republications and Ianoși’s Memoirs, I will dwell on the position the scholar takes in the foreignization-domestication binary, as discussed by Sean Cotter following two of Lawrence Venuti’s concepts.

BERDYAEV’S ESCHATOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC – A COMMENT MEDIATED BY SHESTOV AND BECKETT

METAFIZICA ESHATOLOGICĂ A LUI BERDIAEV – UN COMENTARIU MEDIAT DE ŞESTOV ŞI BECKETT

Author(s): Vasile Cătălin Bobb / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: eschatology; freedom; death; Berdyaev; Shestov; Beckett;

Berdyaev’s eschatological metaphysics states something almost paradoxical: we can envision knowledge, being, freedom and history in the light of the end. Thus, in the present text I want to see, firstly, how can we think such concepts beyond Berdyaev. In other words, I will state that we can think knowledge, being, freedom and history as phenomena exceeded by their own spectral noumenon but without stipulating the eschaton. Secondly, I want to indicate that as tragic as Berdyaev’s metaphysics may seem, still holds an exaggerated optimistic view. I will use two of his central concepts (freedom and death) reading them through the eyes of Beckett and Shestov. In this manner, freedom and death will lose their trustful appearance as constructed by Berdyaev.

RUSSIAN PUPIL’S SCHOOL EXERCISE BOOKS: A NEW SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF TEACHING OF LITERACY SKILLS IN THE 19TH CENTURY

RUSSIAN PUPIL’S SCHOOL EXERCISE BOOKS: A NEW SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF TEACHING OF LITERACY SKILLS IN THE 19TH CENTURY

Author(s): Caroli Dorena / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2014

Keywords: Russia; 19th century; Lev N. Tolstoy; literacy; school exercise books;

School exercise books constitute one of the most original sources for the historians of education who focus on the teaching of literacy skills. This article aims at analysing a sample of Russian school exercise books in order to study some new aspects of the history of Russian schooling, by focusing on the writing exercises of two of Tolstoy’s pupils (1861) and on some compositions by children from the Tsarist schools of Kiev, Černigov and Tula (1910–16).

Russian-language books in Romania

Cărți în limba rusă în România

Author(s): Evgeny Sokolinsky / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: Biblioteca Națională a Rusiei;Biblioteca Națională a României;Biblioteca Academiei Române;cărți în limba rusă

Autorul abordează problema colecțiilor de carte în limba rusă existente în bibliotecile românești, în contextul imigrației rusești în Balcani. Pentru a umple golul de informații pe acest subiect, între Biblioteca Națională a Rusiei și Biblioteca Națională a României s-a stabilit un parteneriat cu scopul depistării cărților în limba rusă existente în colecțiile Bibliotecii Naționale a României și ale Bibliotecii Academiei Române. Deasemenea, se dorește extinderea investigației și asupra colecțiilor altor biblioteci românești.

Russian-language books in Romania

Russian-language books in Romania

Author(s): Evgeny Sokolinsky / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: The Russian National Library;The National Library of Romania;The Romanian Academy Library;Russian language books

The author addresses the problem of Russian book collections existing in Romanian libraries, in the context of Russian immigration in the Balkans. To fill the gap of information on this subject, the Russian National Library and the National Library of Romania have established a partnership in order to detect the existing Russian books in the collections of the National Library of Romania and of the Romanian Academy Library. The intention is also to extend the investigation over the collections of other Romanian libraries.

The forgotten and hidden treasuries of Russian Philosophy

Comorile uitate și ascunse ale filosofiei ruse

Author(s): Tudor Petcu / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian / Issue: 6/2017

MARIETTA ANCA. A PORTRAIT OF A LADY

MARIETTA ANCA. A PORTRAIT OF A LADY

Author(s): Lucian Sinigaglia / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Keywords: Marietta Anca; artistic career; parts in performances; Romanian theatre; directors; theatrical columnists.

Marietta Anca was not the only artist to catch the eye of a number of personalities who wrote about theater. Alice Voinescu, Camil Petrescu, Mihail Sebastian, N. Carandino, Lucia Demetrius, Ioan Massoff, Petre Comarnescu have left testimonies about the artists who were at the heart of Bucharest’s theatrical life. Their opinions, read with maximum possible objectivity, make up the portrait of an artist with a vigorous personality, over whom a veil had settled, seemingly inexplicably, since the last years of her career. She was in demand and she excelled in historical evocation tragedy and in the modern psychological analysis drama.

ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN - MEMORIALIST AND NOVELIST FROM RUSSIAN POST-WAR LITERATURE

ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN - MEMORIALIST AND NOVELIST FROM RUSSIAN POST-WAR LITERATURE

Author(s): Codruţa – Flavia Tulvan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Keywords: The Gulag Archipelago; Solzhenitsyn; memorial; Gulag; detention; faith;

We have shown in this article that Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, like his illustrious precursors, has genuine trust in divinity and brings into his life aspects that have removed him from God. The theme of detention accompanies here the one of destiny, faith, spiritual freedom, and is woven from symbols and reasons such as hunger, cold, dehumanized sergeant, death, fear, soul, consciousness. The barbed wire, the cascade appearance, the wrinkled coat, the tinette / the map are symbols of detention on the one hand, and on the other hand are elements that make up the path of initiation, ascension, discovery of the new deeper meanings of life and death. Then we found similarities and distinctions between the concentrating world of the Gulag Archipelago and the way it was illustrated by other great writers of the world.

Discontinuities and Performances of Process of Bureaucratical Centralization in the 1840s. Case Study: Governor Pavel Fedorov

Discontinuitățile și performanțele procesului de centralizare birocratică din Basarabia de la mijlocul secolului XIX. Studiu de caz: guvernatorul Pavel Fedorov

Author(s): Dionisie Liboni / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 9/2017

Keywords: modernisation; bureaucracy; ministry; college; corruption; reforms;

The administrative context of Imperial Russia from the 1840s wasn’t absolutely peculiar in Europe. Certainly, the character of reforms was severely limited by the Autocracy, but some institutions, due to their “enlightened” bureaucrats, produced infusions of advanced ideas, especially in state’s scientific tools of information. Despite that, the provincial bureaucracy remained at backward situation in comparison with progressive level of Petersburg’s Chancellery of minister Lev Perovskii. The author tries to present the less explored details of the reign of General-Governor Pavel Fedorov. The author argues that “clientelism”, favouritism and nepotism maintained its roles in provincial political milieu. Frequently, the correlation patron-client, which can be exemplified by the case of cohabitation between Vorontsov and Fedorov, was an indispensable part of political culture, the mood of building of administrative schools and propulsion of reforms. The Civil and Military Governor of Bessarabia have been appointed due to compliance with the political visions of the administration of the General Government of New Russia. The administrative experience performed at the local level and education benefited from Aleksey Greig, the admiral with intellectual activities, represented advantages for his success in the position that he had secured. Fedorov had faithfully adopted a custom political type by resorting to regular inspections and controls for regulation of the bureaucratic apparatus in an attempt to establish a direct patronage of distant regions. However, the policy of Fedorov was not so articulated as Vorontsov’s one and it reached another extreme. In absence of well trained professionals, the lower level of provincial bureaucracy sought to solve the personal issues using the illegal methods.Among all negative aspects, the arbitraries conducted an uncontrolled distortion of veritable intentions of government, facts which depicted in the reports of Third Section of His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery – the secret police of the Tsar. The case of Fedor Gujva is the most relevant example of dichotomy between the Enlightened intentions of the administrators and the dark reality of implementing of reforms into public life of Bessarabia. The pure military official, who got involved in the activity of civil courts, ignored judicial proceedings, committed abuses in order to gain a position of strength in relation to his clients. Having obtained the support of the Governor Fedorov, the Auditor has managed to shrink from responsibility for abuse and escaped from ministerial inquiries. The Auditor’s case is symbolic one for revealing the inconsistency of ruling bureaucracy of the traditional peasant society. Another aspect consists of reviewing the changes in the administrative scheme of Bessarabia that occurred since the transfer of General-Governor Mikhail Vorontsov from Odessa to Tiflis and appointment in the position of Vice-Roy of Caucasus Province. After a short period of preserving the appearances of continuous presence of “iron hand” of viceroy, the authorities decided to modify the structural scheme. Paradoxically, the initial softening policy, expressed in increasing of power of Vice-Governor, Chief of Financial Chamber and respective chancellery, led to further ministerial centralisation expanded after the dismiss of Vorontsov in 1854.

Bernard Hours, Louis XV and His Court. The King, the Etiquette and the Courtier. Historical Essay, Chişinău, Editura Arc, 2004

Bernard Hours, Ludovic al XV-lea şi curtea sa. Regele, eticheta şi curteanul. Eseu istoric, Chişinău, Editura Arc, 2004

Author(s): Nicoleta Maria Hegedűs / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 8-9/2006

Content of Slavica Revalensia Journal: 2014–2018

Указатель содержания журнала „Slavica Revalensia”: 2014–2018

Author(s): Grigori Utgof / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 6/2019

Russian Literature for the Insel-Bücherei

Russisches für die Insel-Bücherei

Author(s): Carmen Sippl / Language(s): German / Issue: 33/2020

Keywords: translation studies; cultural semiotics; Alexander Eliasberg; Insel-Bücherei

Based on the correspondence between the translator Alexander Eliasberg (1878–1924) and the German publishing house Insel-Verlag this paper explores the social, material and mental dimensions of their relationship from the point of view of cultural semiotics. Understanding the culture of translation as a semiosphere (according to Jury Lotman’s definition) furthers the insight into the dynamics and the (historical, sociocultural) conditions of the process of Russian-German cultural mediation. It also allows us to draw conclusions on Eliasberg’s concept of translation and the role of translation as a medium. One of Eliasberg’s translations from Tolstoy for the book series Insel-Bücherei, published in 1913, serves as an example.

Theme of the 14th International Slavic Congress (Republic of Macedonia, Ohrid, 2008)

Tematica celui de-al XIV-lea Congres Internaţional al slaviştilor (Republica Macedonia, Ohrida, 2008)

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2006

Keywords: Theme; 14th International Slavic Congress; Republic of Macedonia; Ohrid; 2008;

Scientific life: Comitetul Internaţional al Slaviştilor Tematica Celui de-al XIV-lea Congres Internaţional al Slaviştilor (Republica Macedonia, Ohrida, 2008) (Adoptată la şedinţa Prezidiului C.I.S., la Belgrad, Serbia şi Muntenegru, 23-25 iunie 2005)

International Lotman Congress

Rahvusvaheline lotmani kongress

Author(s): Aleksei Vdovin / Language(s): Estonian / Issue: 06/2012

Keywords: conference; Juri Lotman; semiology; semiotics;

Report on the conference “Kultuuri mitmekeelsus” held at Department of Russian Literature from 28th February to 2nd of March of 2012.

Russian feminine characters on the romanian stage, between hopes and failure

Personaje rusești pe scena teatrală românească, între speranțe și ratare

Author(s): Mirela Puia / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2022

Keywords: love; hopes; suffering; oblivion; failure;

In a study that involves the interpretation of such complex characters as those in the sphere of Russian literature writings, like those of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy, I inevitably reached issues like love, faith, aspirations, suffering and failure. I tried to understand the human dimension of the feminine characters from Chekhov’s plays, Three sisters, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull and from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. These feminine characters are stranded between the memory of their hopes and dreams and the hurting feeling of their unfulfillment, which is present in all the aspects of their lives. The nature of these characters and the extreme feelings and emotions emanating from their souls can only be born from an equally tumultuous life, bestrewed with falls and rises. Most of the characters acknowledge their defeat, they often anticipate it, but they do not have the power to change anything, although they speak of change, of a new life. We notice a big discrepancy between words and deeds. The characters dream, talk about their dream, but do not materialize anything, talk about passion, but do not live it, talk about a new life, but resign themselves to it. All projects, ideals, dreams, and projections in the future are destined to fail. I went through the failures of female characters, classifying them into types of failures: erotic failure, failure in the profession, and other unfulfillments, and then I inserted an analyse of a play staged in the Romanian theatre.

Camelia Dinu (coord.), Modernismul rus în Veacul de Argint

Camelia Dinu (coord.), Modernismul rus în Veacul de Argint

Author(s): Cristian Chirca / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: book review; monograph; Camelia Dinu; Russian Modernism in The Silver Age;

Review of: Camelia Dinu (coord.), Modernismul rus în Veacul de Argint, Oradea, Ratio et Revelatio, 2020, 348 p., ISBN 978-606-9659-11-3.