L’Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (CRHS) et l’Université fédérale de l’Oural organise, dans le cadre du projet Megagrant, un séminaire international :
Russian elites facing European norms, models and innovations, from the reign of Peter the Great to 1917
Research in process

OCTOBER 14
MORNING SESSION
Salle n° 1, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e (métro Cluny-La Sorbonne, RER Luxembourg, bus 84, 89 arrêt Panthéon)
9.30 am-1 pm:
General introduction :
Marie-Pierre Rey and Dmitri Redin.
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Sergey Sokolov
The Genesis of Russian Republicanism I. History of the Republic: Novgorod in the European Perspective of 18th-century Russian Historians
Konstantin Bugrov
The Genesis of Russian Republicanism II. The Contract Dilemma: Contractualism in Russian Political Thought, 18th – 19th century
Olga Ermakova
About the origin of the elites in the context of European technological transfer of innovations in Russia, 18th-mid 19th centuries”.
Mikhail Kieselev
Fundamental laws” in Russia in XVIII century: reception of the European concept and its influence on domestic policy.
Alexander Palkin
Religious toleration in the Russian Empire: concepts and confessional policy.
AFTERNOON SESSION
Room n°323 Maison de la Recherche, 1 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris. (métro Odéon)
2.30 pm-5 pm.
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Elena Borodina
The influence of European letter-writing culture on drafting business documents in Russia of last quarter of the 18th and early 19th centuries
Rodolphe Baudin
Winckelmann and Karamzin. Reflexions on the Introduction of Neoclassicism in Russia”
PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION around two books published in the general framework of the megagrant project.
Irina Pochinskaya and Natalia Anufrieva
The Illustrated Apocalypses of Urals. The Eastern Orthodox Tradition and the Elements of European Cultural Influence, Ural University Publishing House, Ekaterinburg, 2014.
The book will be presented by Dimtri Redin.
Olga Yakhno
Everyday Life in Ekaterinburg (the end of XIX – beginning of XXth centuries): Essays on Urban Life, AMB Publishing, Ekaterinburg, 2014.
The book will be presented by the author.
OCTOBER 15

Salle n° 1, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e (métro Cluny-La Sorbonne, RER Luxembourg, bus 84, 89 arrêt Panthéon)
2.30 pm-5 pm.
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Marie-Pierre Rey
Prince Anatole Demidoff and the International Committee to aid the prisoners of the Crimean War
Elena Alekseeva
Typical features of the diffusion of European technological innovations in the Russian Empire in the early period of industrial modernization
Michel Tissier
Settling the serfdom issue: on the influence or non-influence of Western experiences in nineteenth-century Russia
Thierry Claeys
About French investments in Russia, 1857-1917
François-Xavier Nérard :
From Cahors to Kagor : towards an history of Cahors wines in Russia