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Ilya Ratkovsky28.10.2022

Yuri Chekalin: What attracts you to work as a historian? Ilya Ratkovsky: In the profession of a historian, there are several incentives that help me work and develop. First of all, it is an opportunity to understand the history of your country in the most key moments. The history of the revolution, the Civil War […]

Yuri Chekalin08.08.2022

For a long time I wanted to talk about little-studied events like conspiracies in the army, terrorism and the like, so I decided to publish several essays on the history of Japan in the 1920s and 30s. Of course, this will affect politics, economics, sociology, and even culture. I thought for a long time where […]

Yuri Chekalin23.06.2022

The romantic love story of a Russian prisoner of war and a Japanese nurse served as the plot for the musical Oath on a Coin (Chikai no Koin) by the Japanese Botchan Theater (坊っちゃん劇場, Botchan Theater) from Ehime Prefecture (愛媛県, Ehime-ken). For almost 30 years, every second Saturday of the month, about a hundred students […]

Serg Levine09.06.2022

The invitation of friends to the drum show “The Sea of the Blue Forest” at the Teatrium was a complete surprise for me, but I immediately accepted it, because I really wanted to compare the Russian version of the performance with the performance I saw at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas back in 1993. And […]

Serg Levine27.05.2022

“Do not look at what is against the rules, do not listen to what is against them, do not say what is against them” – Confucius (孔子 Kung Tzu), “Conversations and Judgments” (論語 Lun Yu). In many countries of the world, today it is customary to give friends and relatives as a sign of a […]

Yuri Chekalin15.12.2021

In Shinto, the term jinja is used for a shrine, or more literally the dwelling place of Kami. Many people probably have a mental picture of a building whenever they think of a Shinto shrine. It is said that we now have 80,000 such buildings in Japan, of which 6,000 have resident kannushi (Shinto masters).Out […]

Tsurutani Hisashi20.05.2020

One of the most significant events in the history of the American West was the discovery of gold in the state of California in 1848. In the ensuing excitement people came to California, delirious with gold fever, not only from the East Coast of the United States but from all parts of the world. Gold […]

Yuri Chekalin19.05.2020

Yuri Bakhurin’s book, The Front and Rear of the Great War, is a true World War I encyclopedia. In it, the reader will find for himself a lot of informative and fascinating. How did the soldiers eat (even with the scheme of the design of a pack kitchen), what did they drink, what did they […]

Yuri Chekalin07.05.2020

Today we’re talking with a historian Yuri Bahurin, the author of “Front and Rear of the Great War”. 1) Why did you decide to deal with the First World War? Having entered the history department, I really didn’t immediately understand for myself and decided what kind of historical epoch most attracted to me: here you […]

Yuri Chekalin20.04.2020

Late inthe spring of 1886, a young man named Hasegawa Tatsunosuke, known to the Japanese literary world by his penname Futabatei Shimei,’ began to write his first novel. After he had struggled with it for many months, the first part was published in June 1887. The rest of the novel, which he called “Ukigumo” (“Drifting […]

History

Ilya Ratkovsky About How to be a Hystorian

The First Wave of Russian Emigration to Japan

Love Oath on Gold Coin

Show of Japanese drummers, or taiko rhythms on the Russian stage

See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil

No need for a “building”

The Chinese and the Development of the West

Review of Yuri Bahurin’s Book “The Front and Rear of the Great War”

Interview with Yuri Bakhurin

Japan’s First Modern Novel

Olga Chekhova — the “Queen of the Nazi Reich” and Russian Spy

Do Animals have Conscious Thought?

Gavriil Popov — the First Post-Communist Mayor of Moscow

“Bulgakov — Get Out the Russian Chauvinist from Kyiv!”