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The article focuses on the successful Russian official in the Kingdom of Poland, Nikolai Pavlishchev, primarily known as the husband of Olga Sergeevna, Alexander' Pushkin's sister, as well as the manuscript of his monograph on the Warsaw Society of Science Lovers (1800–1832). The manuscript is being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, so the article contains voluminous fragments of the text of the manuscript, which allows us to get an idea of how Pavlishchev assessed the activities of the Society, how he perceived the Poles and the level of Russian-Polish relations. ; The article focuses on the successful Russian official in the Kingdom of Poland, Nikolai Pavlishchev, primarily known as the husband of Olga Sergeevna, Alexander' Pushkin's sister, as well as the manuscript of his monograph on the Warsaw Society of Science Lovers (1800–1832). The manuscript is being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, so the article contains voluminous fragments of the text of the manuscript, which allows us to get an idea of how Pavlishchev assessed the activities of the Society, how he perceived the Poles and the level of Russian-Polish relations.

The subjects of the study are works of A. L. Pogodin devoted to the history of Poland, reflected perception of the Polish question by the Russian society. Studying of his polonistic heritage allows us to speak with more confidence about the statement of the Russian historical polonistic in the first quarter of the 20th century, considering that, this problem remains until today debatable and demands amendments. Pogodin's works have been analyzed from the point of view of both the essence and evolution of the Polish question, as well as those significant changes that occurred not only in the field of historical science, studying the history of Poland, but also the visions of the Russian society on Poland. This study gave the chance to come closer to understanding the Pogodin's information code in his historical works, which allowing to shake basement of the Russian historical tradition concerning the Polish history of the 19th century.

The monograph under review written by German historian Malte Rolf, published in Russian, offers a detailed description of the imperial administrative apparatus that was formed after the defeat of the January Uprising of 1863 and existed until the end of Russian rule in the Polish lands (1915). The collective portrait of Warsaw governors general, which was created by the author of the monograph, deserves special attention, given that the imperial elites of the Vistula Land have not previously been the subject of special research. Of no small importance is the fact that the observation over the complex process of transformation of the Congress Kingdom of Poland into the Vistula Land allows the author to comprehensively consider, as he puts it, the "contact zones and conflict nodes" that stood out most clearly against the background of the existing administrative structures.

The article is devoted to the Joseph Brodsky's essay «Journey to Istanbul». The author considers one of the central subjects of the essay, which is connected with the plans of the Emperor Constantine for the foundation of New Rome and the spread of Christianity. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the reconstruction of the historical picture in the essay, the characteristics of the diverse tasks that Brodsky set for himself, as well as to the stylistic features of the essay text.The article shows that the ideological subtext, to which literary critics and colleagues in the pen often attached excessive importance, plays a rather secondary role in this habitual journey into the past for Brodsky, not to mention that the circumstance of his private life acts as an incentive for such an essay. While the idea of Constantine as emperor and the idea of Constantinople as the New Rome, which marks the idea of Christianity, comes to the fore.