<jats:p>The present paper analyzes the fate and political activities of the first baptized Kalmyk vladelets Peter P. Taishin in the context of the purposeful Christianization of the Kalmyks and the internecine struggle for supreme power in the Kalmyk Khanate in 1724-173...

<jats:p>Consideration of the peculiarities of the formation of official and unofficial systems of toponyms and anthroponyms in the territory of the Orenburg region, which preserved the original polyethnic and polyconfessional nature, indicates a certain heterogeneity of...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The ancient Hungarians originated from the Ural region of Russia, and migrated through the Middle-Volga region and the Eastern European steppe into the Carpathian Basin during the ninth century AD. Their Homeland was probably in...

<jats:p>Introduction. The relevant objective of the research of the Sarmatians in the Don forest-steppe zone is the study of the Late Sarmatian period. It is aggravated both by the lack of the available material and by the absence of Late Sarmatian period burial grounds...

<jats:p>Introduction. As a result of many years of excavations on settlements of the Skiphian era in the basin of the Middle Don the area of about 50 thousand square meters has been opened. However, buildings of the cult purpose are still not known. Methods and material...

The problem of determining the author of a text, i.e. authorship attribution (AA), is based on the assumption on the stability and uniqueness of the authorial style. Since it is obvious that a lot of content words bear topical information, researchers widely use the so-...

<jats:p>Formerly reserved for adult, texts about traumatic events of the past have now entered the domain of children’s literature. Such texts “play the key role in the double-edged process of grieving and prevention” (A. Etkind) and are seen as essential for familiariz...

<jats:p>The article is devoted to spiritual healing and therapeutic ceremonies of Afro-Cuban religious traditions. Particular attention is paid to the complex relationships of worshipers with spirits. In this regard, the circumstances and signs of spiritual chosenness, ...

<jats:p>I.S. Gurvich's research on the policy of paternalism in relation to the indigenous peoples of the North is now becoming relevant in the context of the contemporary discussion. Gurvich acknowledged that the Soviet policy of paternalism in the first place gave pri...