The article highlights the key stages of the formation of parliamentarism in the Russian Empire during the First Russian Revolution of 1905-1907. On the basis of a complex set of personal origin sources, the opinions of active participants in the Siberian political process, stages and content of the civil society formation process and its involvement in socio-political life in the empire and the region are identified and analyzed. In conclusion, findings are formulated about the main essential characteristics of the process under study and its impact on the further evolution of the Russian political system.

The article is an analytical review of the work of the 5th International scientific and practical conference The Civil War in the East: a look at the documentary heritage , which took place on October 18-19, 2023 in Omsk. This is one of the main ongoing Russian historical and archival thematic forums. The authors of this publication participated in the event itself. The review presents the main milestones of the conference, its most significant characteristics (the roster and geography of the participants, the characteristic features of the most important issues considered, which set the general tone of the scientific discussion). Speakers and listeners of the conference unanimously emphasized the high relevance of such events, aimed at preserving and forming national historical and cultural memory, popularizing knowledge about Russia's past. Nowadays, this activity has acquired even greater significance, being associated with patriotic work and the education of the younger generation. The two days of fruitful dialogue have clearly demonstrated the demand among scientists and the public for knowledge about the “Siberian aspect” of the Russian Civil War, as well as the fact that the topic, which remains acute, requires the involvement of leading academic experts. Thanks to a theoretical framework that combines the principles of consistency and determinism, the conference and its results are hereby presented as an important phenomenon of scientific, cultural and social life, with an international discourse. The peculiarity of the genre of the material has predetermined the use of a problematic vision in its presentation. The review is aimed at a wide range of readers, including, first of all, researchers in the fields of history of historical science, events of the Civil War in eastern Russia, cultural anthropology, local history, and commemoration practices.

The article deals with the issues of illness and death in the everyday life of Kazan burghers of the first half of the 19th century. Based on the analysis of a significant number of archival documents, an analysis of the nature of diseases was carried out, climatic, geographical and social causes of diseases and mortality were identified. The social factors of diseases are the low standard of living of the burghers, the peculiarities of the city as a habitat, the weak level of sanitary culture, the lack of qualified medical care. A significant role was played by the commitment of the burghers to the traditional conservative lifestyle, which was based on adherence to established practices and habits, including the refusal to consult doctors. The daily way of life was significantly corrected by epidemic diseases, among which smallpox and cholera were especially significant. The therapeutic and preventive measures taken significantly changed everyday life and required new practices that were perceived differently by people. Restrictive measures violated the usual order of life, a mass phenomenon was the refusal of smallpox vaccination, as well as non-compliance with sanitary measures. The burghers understood the disease as an attribute of the material world, which was expressed in the rational perception and designation of the disease as a state of the body, although some features of the irrational understanding of the disease can still be traced in the language of the burghers. The burghers realized death as an inevitable natural outcome of life, which required the necessary actions to complete earthly affairs.

This article is devoted to an overview of the fate of the first specialized scientific magazine on the ancient world of pre-revolutionary Russia. “Philological Survey”, created by the efforts of private individuals, the teacher of the 3rd Moscow grammar school A.V. Adolf and the teacher of the 1st Moscow grammar school V.G. Appelrot interested in the development of science, was published from 1891 to 1902 for eleven years, during which 21 issues were published. In the second half of the 19th century in the scientific community, the need for the existence of such a press organ has long been the necessity, and its creation has become an important and significant event for science. The leading domestic experts in ancient history and classical philology of that time published their works on its pages, discussions were held, translations and original texts of ancient authors were printed there. Moreover, many major antique scholars helped with the maintenance of certain subsections of the journal free of charge. From the very beginning of its work, the editorial staff experienced great financial difficulties, which mostly the staff took on itself. Financial reports show that already in the first years of the publication of the “Philological Survey”, there was a large budget deficit. The reason for this, we believe, is the highly specialized nature of the publication, devoted to scientists, teachers and teachers of ancient history and classical philology, which in this period of time in pre-revolutionary Russia were still not enough to provide the magazine with a marketability that could cover the costs of the publication. The state provided the Philological Survey with financial support in the form of annual subsidies, since the Ministry of Public Education understood the importance of the Philological Survey for the development of science. Such an assessment, made by the scientific committee of the Ministry, was recorded in archival documents and is beyond doubt. However, this support was not enough. The budget deficit continued to increase steadily from year to year. For this reason, and due to the deteriorating health of both editors, the magazine had to be closed. Nevertheless, it played an important role in the development of Russian antiquities.

The publication continues the introduction into scientific circulation of letters from the legal historian A.V. Soloviev to the historian-slavist A.V. Florovsky. The proposed letters date back to the late 1940s - early 1960s and are stored in the A.V. Florovsky collection in the Slavic Library in Prague. The letters provide numerous details of Soloviev's biography of the post-war years and reveal his views on a number of subjects in ancient Russian history. It also shows Soloviev's attitude to various scientific and pseudoscientific publications by authors of the Russian Abroad. The letters are accompanied by the necessary comments and introduction.

For the first time archive documents and periodical press materials of the NEP period are introduced into scientific discourse. They allow to enhance the list of facts about a well-known in Tyumen family of merchants Zhernakovs coming from peasants of Sarapul uyezd. The documents from the 1920's confirm and supplement the information previously introduced into scientific discourse by Tyumen local historians, scientists and descendants of the Zhernakovs family. In addition, the analysis of the certificates and questionnaires of the employees of the Tyumen branch of GUM (1922-1926) allows us to trace the interrelation between merchant and Soviet trade. The author concludes that descendants of the private pre-revolutionary trade stood at the origins of Soviet trade continuing their labor activity as employees in state trading institutions.

The article includes information about the biography, scientific, educational and organizational activities of Dmitry Georgievich Korovushkin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, who worked for many years first at Omsk State University, then at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Today he is a professor at the Siberian University of Consumer Cooperatives. A list of his main scientific works is given.

In the article on the basis of archival materials, deposited in the Russian State Military History Archive, information about Verny 1887 and Andijan 1902 earthquakes, similar in destructive power, when Verny and Andijan were completely destroyed, is given. The paper analyzes the activities of the Russian government during the Verny and Andijan earthquakes and assesses the measures taken to eliminate the causes of the disaster and restore the city's infrastructure. In particular, on the basis of documents preserved in the Russian State Archive of the Russian Federation, for the first time the issue of relocation of the regional center of the Semirechensk region from the city of Verny to the proposed towns of Kopal, Lepsinsk, Iliysk and the village of Gavrilovka in the Semirechensk region in 1887-1888 is considered. Including consideration of the reconstruction of the city of Andijan in 1902-1903 and preparation of the draft "Rules for guidance in the construction of buildings in Andijan, Verny and Pishpek districts of the Turkestan region" 1906. The author concludes that the Vernenskoye and Andijan earthquakes initiated a serious study of geology and seismology of Central Asia by engineers and researchers, including the Russian government, which raised the issue of technical strengthening of residential, administrative and economic buildings.

The terms “literary Decembrism” and “Decembrist literature”, which have become established in literary studies, denote the civil trend in Russian romanticism of the 1810s-1820s. In addition to the Decembrist writers themselves, an important role in this direction is assigned to A.S. Pushkin, who has never been a member of secret societies. As an alternative, we consider the case of the writer S.D. Nechaev. He was a member of the Decembrist secret society Union of Prosperity, but remained in the history of Russian literature as the author of sentimental album poems and moralizing aphorisms. His only poem filled with truly civic pathos was “The Drinking Song of the Greeks” (1823). However, for Nechaev, membership in a secret society was not an empty formality. At the end of October he also became a member of the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature at Moscow University. And already in November, Nechaev spoke to “lovers of Russian literature” with a speech “On the choice of objects in the fine arts in general”. The speaker promoted ideas and aesthetic principles that he did not adhere to in his own work, but which were enshrined in the statutory document of the Union of Prosperity. So he denied his own value of art and saw its purpose in serving the “common good”, strengthening morality and virtue, and educating youth. This article substantiates the proposal to consider the speech of Nechaev not as his individual speech, but as a propaganda action of the Union of Prosperity.