Ekaterina Boltunova

The first issue of the journal "Quaestio Rossica" for 2024 published a review by Vladislav Ivshin (Ural Federal University) "Debt, Love and Hate": Russian-Polish relations in the first third of the 19th century." based on the book by the director of the Institute, Ekaterina Boltunova, “The Last Polish King. The Coronation of Nicholas I in Warsaw in 1829 and the memory of the Russian-Polish wars of the 17th – early 19th centuries.”

In the latest issue of the magazine “Cahiers du monde russe” for 2023, Mikhail Belousov published a review of the book by IRII director Ekaterina Boltunova “The Last Polish King: the coronation of Nicholas I in Warsaw in 1829 and the memory of the Russian-Polish wars of the 17th – early 19th centuries ".

In the book "Rules of the game on a voluntary basis. Power and voluntary public organizations in the USSR in the 1960s–1990s." (ed. G.A. Yankovskaya; Perm, 2023) published an article by Ekaterina Boltunova and Galina Egorova “All-Union/All-Russian: an unrealized project for the creation of the Society for the Protection of Monuments of the USSR.”

As part of the collective monograph “Picturing Russian Empire” (Oxford University Press, 2023-2024; Ed. by Valerie Kivelson, Sergei Kozlov and Joan Neuberger), an article was published by the director of the Institute of Regional Historical Studies, Ekaterina Boltunova, entitled “Visual Polemics: The Time of Troubles in Polish and Russian Historical Memory (1611-1949)".

A new article “A Regional History of Russia: The Research Field and Archival Practices (1990s — early 2020s)” by the Laboratory Head Ekaterina Boltunova was published in the sixth issue of the journal "Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie" for 2022.

A new book "Territory and history: late Soviet projects of «Hero Cities» and the «Golden Ring»" by the Head of the Laboratory Ekaterina Boltunova and Research Fellow Galina Egorova was published in December 2022 (Publishing House "Kuchkovo Pole").

HSE staff members are participating in the ‘Russian Cultural Heritage: Intellectual Analysis and Thematic Modeling of the Corpus of Handwritten Texts’ project. This is aimed at developing a methodology for the automated analysis of manuscripts, eliminating the need for manual processing. HSE News Service spoke to Ekaterina Boltunova, project manager, Professor, Head of the Laboratory 'Russia’s Regions in Historical Perspective' at HSE Faculty of Humanities.

On January 21, 2022, Ekaterina Boltunova, Head of the Laboratory, and Galina Egorova, Research Fellow of the Laboratory, presented a paper "Russia’s “Golden Ring”: Imperial Basis for Late Soviet Tourist Route" at the International Workshop "State Descriptions Revisited: Historical Forms of Territorial Representations, 18th - 21st Centuries", organized by Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies.

The increasing application of law in various spheres of life in the Russian empire promoted trade regulation and influenced everyday trade practices—even in remote regions. Tradespeople, in turn, tried to limit the application of new regulations while using laws to serve their own interests. HSE University has hosted a seminar on trade in Siberia in the second half of the 19^th and early 20^th centuries.

A new article “’I Have Spoken the Word of Truth Before You!’: Alexander I’s Speech in the Grand Duchy of Finland and Congress Poland” by the Laboratory Head Ekaterina Boltunova was published in the fifth issue of the journal "Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie" for 2021.

A new article "The Last King of Poland: Nicholas I’s Warsaw Coronation and Russian-Polish Historical Memory" by the Laboratory Head Ekaterina Boltunova was published in the second issue of the journal "Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History" for 2021.

On March 28-31, 2021, the HSE International Laboratory ‘Russia’s Regions in Historical Perspective’ held an international conference ‘The Russian Far East: Regional and Transnational Perspectives (19th -21st cent.)’. The event was jointly organized by the Laboratory with the German Historical Institute Moscow, Indiana University Bloomington (USA), and the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East FEB RAS (Vladivostok).

How does an American researcher become interested in the history of enterprise in Siberia? Does knowing Alaska give one a good understanding of the Siberian temperament? If there is one book that provides a good history of Russia, what is it? HSE News Service asked these and other questions to Erika Monahan, Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, who recently gave a talk at the seminar of the HSE International Laboratory ‘Russia’s Regions in Historical Perspective’

HSE’s new International Laboratory of ‘Russia’s Regions in Historical Perspective’ will study the social and political history of Russia’s regions from the 18^th to the late 20^th century.

The discussion of cooperation agreement between International Laboratory 'Russia’s Regions in Historical Perspective' and Smolensk State University took place.

Ekaterina Boltunova has become a member of the Editorial Board of a new book series, Russian Shorts, published by Bloomsbury Press.

In the Faculty of Humanities’ new master’s programme, Cultural and Intellectual History: Between East and West, students will study the history, culture, and traditions of Eastern and Western Europe from the Middle Ages to now. The programme, which begins accepting applications in 2017, also offers students the opportunity to receive a diploma from a partner university abroad.

The article 'Imperial Throne Halls and Discourse of Power in the Topography of Early Modern Russia (late 17th–18th centuries)' by Ekaterina Boltunova, Associate Professor at the School of Philology, was published in the collection 'The Emperor's House: Palaces from Augustus to the Age of Absolutism' issued by De Gruyter.

Ekaterina Boltunova, Associate Professor at the School of Philology organized the section ‘Marketing of Self / Self-Marketing: Strategies of Behavior and Self-Representation in the 18th Century Russia’ at the Fourteenth Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, that took place in Rotterdam in July.