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4th quarter 2019

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "Against drunkenness" (1910).

The average earnings of a person in Russia are 6 times lower than in the US, and vodka drinked in Russia is twice as high as there.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review "The history of Pereyaslavl land from ancient times to the half of the XIII century" (1898).

I am sure that the book of Mr. Lyaskoronsky in its present form will not be without use; but this benefit does not correspond to the mass of long-term labor put into this book.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "They want to abolish the Cossacks" (1910).

The recent war with the Japanese showed that in the war, as it is now waged, the Cossacks are not capable – it is better to have a regular cavalry in their place.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review “Meczislaw Lechnicky. Historical and critical essay on the essential meaning and origin of the name of the Slavs" (1898).

The review of the author, however, will not be able to introduce the issue, because it mainly discusses the outdated or fantastic conclusions of the Slavic name.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "Too many holidays" (1910).

And in Russia they work an average of 250 days only, and in some places even less: in some places the people celebrate 120 or even 160 days.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review "F.M. Umanets. Hetman Mazepa, historical monograph" (1898).

The author drowned in the actual story, the scientific perspective was lost behind it, the important details were not visible, the reader could not stand, in fact, any understanding of the then relations.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "For the new Year" (1910).

We have all the hope, all the power, only in the peasant, manly people, that one did not deny his mother tongue in Ukrainian, which the princes and lords once spoke.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review "A.A. Shakhmatov. The starting point of the reckoning of "Tale of Bygone Years" (1898).

For the chronology of Russian events, the author gave a little new and recognizes the beginning of many dates as unclear for himself.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "Shevchenko Monument" (1909).

In reality, every Ukrainian, especially the Ukrainian working people, rural and industrial people, must be greatly honored and thanked to Shevchenko.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review "A.A. Kochubinsky. The territory of prehistoric Lithuania" (1898).

The author could make a useful contribution to science if he did a more thorough and deeper philological work on the orography of the area that interested him in the direction we indicated.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "For the holidays" (1909).

Therefore, a good deed was done by all who used to teach, encourage our newspaper, bring it hand in hand, and go from house to house for their own acquaintances and countrymen to encourage themselves.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review “P. Milyukov. Essays on the history of Russian culture” (1898).

When reviewing the first volume, we indicated the main drawback of the work: the title does not correspond to the content, this is a story of only Great Russian – even more closely – Moscow culture.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "In the Siberian wilds" (1909).

The enlightment society, which they founded at the same time, began to open Yakut schools. They begun issuing the newspapet "Yakut region", in Yakut and Russian languages.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review «Die orthodox-orientalische Kirche in Lemberg» (1897).

Some information may be of interest here, in fact, about the Orthodox community, drawn out by the author, as he puts it, from the parish archive and some memoir from the mid-19th century.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "Persecution societies" (1909).

It is true that not only the working people came cramped – all societies. Some are not allowed to open, but open ones are closed.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review «Alexander Jabłonowski. Kozaczyzna a legitymizm» (1897).

These two interesting articles have one thing in common, that both touch on the case so-called cossack reform Battery.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "Land become poor!" (1909).

At this time the congress began to reprimand the ministers who are not in a good order, and because of that, the lands are poor, and as a poor country, so is the industry and trade in trouble: you will not sell the naked.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review «Dr. Antoni Prochaska. Dążenia do unii cerkiewnej za Jagiełły» (1897).

Both articles closely link the case of the church union with the political union of Poland, Lithuania and Rus’, as a consequence.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article “On the rights of women” (1909).

The Russian Ministry of Education has announced that it will shortly propose a project that women, along with men, have the right to take on any job, in any position to which they have prepared.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review «Collectanea ex archivo collegii historici» (1897).

The history of the Chudniv Campaign of 1660 is of particular interest to us in this (last) volume of the Archive of the Krakow Academy (Bellum Polono-Moschicum ad Czudnow).

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "Galician Diet" (1909).

The Diet is just like a zemstvo assembly, only it has more rights than a zemstvo assembly, and it also has a greater weight, which makes things sometimes in very large region.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review "Beginnings of the Cossacks after the lectures by V. Antonovich" (1897).

This trick – to translate that short course, read concisely and not for professionals, should be called very happy.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the article "On workers’ societies" (1909).

When the bosses will not allow the working people to unite to defend their working interests against the masters of the owners, will this not drive the workers to politics?

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review «Antoni Prochaska. Przyczynki krytyczne do dziejów unii» (1897).

The author submits a series of special individual explorations, related only to their (closer or further) affiliation with the history of the union of the Grand Duchy Lithuania with Poland for Jagiello and Vytautas.

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In the section "Publicistics" we publish the note "Burning of corpses" (1909).

In other countries, the so-called crematoriums have been set up in different cities, – establishments for burning corpses.

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In the section "Historical works" we publish a review «Źródła dziejowe» (1897).

Under this title came a vast monograph dedicated to the internal history of the former provinces of Kyiv and Bratslav, that is, the Middle Dnieper and Boh in the XVI and the first quarter of the XVII century.

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