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Epistolary Heritage of Mykhailo Sikorskyi

The article is focused on the Sverbeev family epistolary archive study findings. Especially, this means letters of D.N. Sverbeev (1799–1874), a memoirist, and E.A. Sverbeeva (1808–1892), his wife, a hostess of the famous Moscow salon in 1840s, who had extensive ties to the Russian enlightened society. Epistolary intercourse of their sons and daughters (in particular, N.D. Sverbeev, A.D. Sverbeev and S.D. Sverbeeva) inherited and successfully maintained parents' social ties is also of interest. The family archive maintained abundant correspondence with family friends and acquaintances including Turgenev brothers (i.e., A.I. and N.I.), K.S. and I.S. Aksakovs, N.M. and A.M. Yazykovs, archbishop Innokentii (Veniami­nov), A.N. Popov, A.S. Homyakov, I.V. Kireevskii, A.P. Elagina, S.P. Shevyryov, P.A. Vyazemskii, S.P. Trubetskoi, etc.
Almost centenary epistolary archive of a whole family maintained remarkable social ties represents an important document of cultural memory and literary history of two generations of the Russian noble intellectuals in the XIX century. Philosophical, literary, religious and pedagogical issues are discussed in correspondence of the Sverbeev family. It demonstrates responses to the most important social and cultural events of the epoch. Also, it contains biographic, cultural and social data. Also, the Sverbeev family epistolary archive enables a comparative study of private correspondence.

"A new account of Elizabethan diplomacy with an original archival foundation, this book examines the world of letters underlying diplomacy and political administration by exploring a material text never before studied in its own right: the diplomatic letter-book. Author Elizabeth R. Williamson argues that a new focus on the central activity of information gathering allows us to situate diplomacy in its natural context as one of several intertwined areas of crown service, and as one of the several sites of production of political information under Elizabeth I. Close attention to the material features of these letter-books elucidates the environment in which they were produced, copied, and kept, and exposes the shared skills and practices of diplomatic activity, domestic governance, and early modern archiving. This archaeological exploration of epistolary and archival culture establishes a métier of state actor that participates in – even defines – a notably early modern growth in administration and information management. Extending this discussion to our own conditions of access, a new parallel is drawn across two ages of information obsession as Williamson argues that the digital has a natural place in this textual history that we can no longer ignore. This study makes significant contributions to epistolary culture, diplomatic history, and early modern studies more widely, by showing that understanding Elizabethan diplomacy takes us far beyond any single ambassador or agent defined as such: it is a way into an entire administrative landscape and political culture."--

Diplomatic Players: the People Within and Without the Embassy -- Travel, Intelligencing, and the Skills of Information Management -- Diplomatic Letter-books: Writing, Copying, and Keeping Letters -- Writing Reputations: Copying Henry Unton's Letter-books -- Beyond the Embassy: Preservation, Consultation, and the Afterlife of Letters -- Abundance and Access: Letters in the Digital Archive.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Unfolding Feminism: Letters, Networks and Friendships -- 1.1 An Epistolary Portrait -- 1.2 Epistolary Education -- 1.3 Book Structure -- Chapter 2: Bodichon's Epistolary Bildung: Learning, Narratives and Agency -- 2.1 Epistolary Bildung -- 2.2 Wilhelm von Humboldt and Bildung -- 2.3 Narrative Bildung: The Gebildet Epistolary Self -- 2.4 Fragmented Narrative Agency -- 2.5 Bodichon's Epistolary 'I,' 'You' and 'She' -- 2.6 Intersubjective Epistolary 'Truth' -- 2.7 Editorial Rationale -- Chapter 3: 'A Peculiar Education': Epistolary Networks, Knowledge and Critical Thinking -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 '[B]etter Education Both of Teachers and Pupils' -- 3.3 'Bible, Testament, Testament, Bible' -- 3.4 Better Education for Women -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: 'To Be Happy Is to Work, Work - Work - Work': Affection, Creativity and Self-Fulfilment -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 'Every Human Being Should Work' -- 4.3 Bourgeois Female Domesticity -- 4.4 Paid Work -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: 'Improbable That We Should Agree in the Choice of Husbands': Love, Marriage and Silences -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 'Women Should Not Make Love Their Profession' -- 5.3 Married Life and Personal Space -- 5.4 Telling Silences -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 6: 'Slavery is … Allied to the Injustice to Women': Morality, Equality and Citizenship -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 'Citizenship is an honour' -- 6.3 Bodichon's Travelling Self -- 6.4 Travelling Letters -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 7: 'Bringing Home Bamboos to Paint': Artistry, Aesthetics and Power -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 'It is Really Pitiful to See So Much Pure Beauty Unappreciated Everywhere in Spain' -- 7.3 Artistic Self-Belief -- 7.4 A Hybrid Cultural Mediation -- 7.5 Conclusion.