No 1 (2011)

In article some facts of the biography of head of the Privy Council under Ivan the Terrible - prince Ivan Mstislavskij are considered. In work the assumption that Ivan Mstislavskij showed interest to book culture, in particular, to annals is come out. Research is based on the data of notes of foreign travelers, records on hand-written books, saints lives and other sources.

Joseph Hamel, a Russian academician, was the first who attempted to make a close study of Russian-English intercourse concerning the period of its initiation. He based his research on Russian and English State Archives records, having carefully studied information on diplomatic and trade relations between two countries. History was not the only field the academician had a concern in.

In the Article researching the theoretical aspects the genesis of city. The City concentrates different spheres of human action on its territory. The human's action changes often the most part of city characteristics is devoid for stability therefore. This reason leads to ambiguous conclusions in urbanistic researches. At the determined step the evolution of society cites are appear. The availability of regular surplus product or excess is necessary condition. The main function of the city - reallocation or redistributive. City posses authoritative privileges and tries to realize it. It gives birth particular mythology of city.

The article is devoted to the history of the struggle in the Duma and Russian political quarters in 1907-1917 for establishing territorial governance institutions in Siberia.

The article deals with the activities of Apellants - a group in the English Catholic community which existed in late XVIth - early XVIIth centuries. The Apellants wanted the royal power to grant the English Catholics religious tolerance in exchange for loyalty of Catholics in political sphere.