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Pēterburgas Zinātņu akadēmijas rakstu krājumi Latvijas Universitātes Muzejā
2019
Latvijas Universitātes Muzeja Botānikas un mikoloģijas kolekcijās glabājas Pēterburgas Zinātņu akadēmijas 18. gs. beigās – 19. gs. sākumā izdotā rakstu krājuma 27 sējumi - Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae (12 sējumi) un Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae (15 sējumi). Raksts satur informāciju par Pēterburgas Zinātņu akadēmijas izveidi un rakstu krājuma publikāciju visražīgākajiem autoriem.
Between the Darkness of Barbarism and the Light of Civilization: British Images of the Finn in the Late Eighteenth Century
2014
This article aims to show that it was the British travellers (Coxe, Tooke, Clarke,et al.) to Finland in the late eighteenth century who discovered Finland for theBritish reading public. As they distinguished the Finns as a separate ‘race’ fromthe Russians, the Swedes, and the Lapps, they contributed to the proto-racialistimage of them that would become popular in the nineteenth century. BecauseSweden had become an important maritime trading partner (in iron ore, tar, andtimber) to the British, its eastern part, Finland, also became an interesting countryto visit en route from Stockholm to Saint Petersburg (or from Saint Petersburgto Stockholm). The travellers were astonished to realize that…
Socio-spatial differentiation in transition: a preliminary comparative analysis of post-soviet St Petersburg and Riga
2020
Research into the socio-spatial dynamics in Central European cities is an important area of contemporary transition studies. Open issues in this domain range from defining a theoretical framework to data availability and methodological approaches. As to the former aspect, recent literature focuses on the hybrid nature of the post-socialist urban space, which underwent modernization in the conditions of globalization and economic liberalization; the earlier model of spatial development changed dramatically as a result. The multi-scalar and comparative approaches may shed new light on the complex patterns of urban socio-spatial differentiation and its post-Soviet dynamics. Growing regional so…