Maria Petrova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1162768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Petrova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrova |
| SIGNATURE | PETROVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | State Academic University of Humanities |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7625-5286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social Image, Networks, and Protest Participation
Documents from Russian and European Archives on the Activities of Holstein Missions in the Holy Roman Empire in the 1740s — 1770s
In the mid-eighteenth century, the diplomatic missions of Holstein-Gottorp in the Holy Roman Empire were an important instrument of Russia's foreign policy, since during period in question, this North German duchy was headed by the heirs to the Russian throne — Grand Duke Peter Feodorovich (from 1762, Emperor Peter III) and his son, Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich, who was under the guardianship of his mother, Empress Catherine II, until he came of ag…
Germany as a Theatre of Etiquette: Accreditation of Foreign Diplomats in the Holy Roman Empire in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century (a Case of the Russian Mission in Frankfurt am Main)
The article examines the legitimization of foreign diplomats by territorial circles, secular and ecclesiastical rulers, and cities of the Holy Roman Empire, using the case of the Russian mission in Frankfurt am Main, established by decree of Catherine II in 1781. Drawing on materials from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, the author, for the first time in historiography, illustrates the process of preparing credentials for vari…
Are Political and Charitable Giving Substitutes? Evidence from the United States
Using microdata from the American Red Cross (ARC) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in two natural experiments, we provide evidence that political giving and charitable giving are substitutes. In the first natural experiment, we estimate the effects of a positive shock to charitable donations to the ARC: foreign natural disaster events. We find that although charitable donations to ARC increase by 34.9% in the six weeks following a disast…
The Problem of Holstein Guardianship in the Foreign Policy of Catherine II in 1762—1764
The article, based on unpublished materials from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire and the Austrian State Archive, examines Catherine II’s position on the Holstein question, which has been studied mainly in the context of relations between Russia and Denmark. The purpose of this article is to show the importance of this issue for the German policy of the Russian Empress. Her first task after accession to the throne was to obtain…
Language Practices of the Brothers Simolin, Russian Foreign-Born Diplomats, in the Second Half of the 18th Century
This article considers the usage of native and foreign languages in the multinational community of Russian diplomats in the second half of the eighteenth century, especially by the immigrants from the Ostsee (Baltic) provinces of the Russian Empire annexed as a result of the Great Northern War of 1700–1721. Incorporating the approaches of new diplomatic history that applies the methods of sociolinguistics and studies, among others, the national, …
Legitimation of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich as Duke of Holstein-Gottorp in the Holy Roman Empire
In the article, the author, drawing on unpublished materials from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, examines three related subjects. The first subject concerns the recognition in 1745 of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich as Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and as an adult a year ahead due to his conversion to Orthodoxy and fears that a change of religion could become an obstacle to taking possession of the duchy. The second subject concerns …
Mission of Baron Joseph Maria von Neuhaus in Russia in 1742—1746 and the Organisational Problems of Diplomatic Service in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century
The article, based on unpublished materials from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, reconstructs the details of the stay in St. Petersburg and Moscow of Minister Plenipotentiary of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII Baron Joseph Maria von Neuhaus, who came to prevent Empress Elizabeth Petrovna from entering the War of the Austrian Succession on the side of Austria. Neuhaus’ mission was accompanied by a number of difficulties, th…
The Recognition of the Imperial Title of Russian Sovereigns by the Holy Roman Empire: The Problem and Its Solutions (first half of the 1740s)
Drawing upon unpublished documents from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, the author, for the first time in historical scholarship, examines various scenarios of recognition of the imperial titles of Ivan VI Antonovich and Elizaveta Petrovna by the Emperor and Estates of the Holy Roman Empire in the early years of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748).The recognition of the title, adopted by Peter the Great in 1721, si…
Demanding development: The political economy of climate finance and overseas investments from China
This paper examines the drivers of Chinese overseas financing in renewable energy and the political economy factors in recipient countries that steer this finance towards climate-friendly projects. We examine utility-scale renewable energy projects in Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Pakistan, and Romania. Through in-depth interviews with policymakers and relevant stakeholders, we gathered data on the factors that le…
Ceremonial at the Court of Frederick the Great in 1748: Reflections from the Russian Diplomat Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk
The document from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire published in this article is an original diplomatic relation in German, compiled 2 (13) January 1748 by the minister plenipotentiary in Berlin count Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk and its translation into Russian, made in the College of Foreign Affairs as soon as it was received. The document was a response to the Empress Elisabeth’ circular rescript of 8 December 1747, addressed…
Career Strategies of Russian Diplomats in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century (the Cases of I.M. Simolin and P.A. Levashev)
The article examines the careers of the famous eighteenth-century Russian diplomats Ivan Matveevich Simolin and Pavel Artemyevich Levashev, whose paths repeatedly crossed – in Copenhagen, Vienna, and Regensburg, creating tension between them. Analysing the correspondence of diplomats preserved in the Archives of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire and the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents, the author concludes that they acted in the…
The International Position of Russia at the Beginning of the Seven Years’ War in the Instructions of the College of Foreign Affairs to Residents in Regensburg and Gdansk
The article publishes two sources from the Archives of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire – instructions of the College of Foreign Affairs dated December 31, 1756 (January 11, 1757) to the residents in Regensburg and Gdansk, G.H. Büttner and A.S. Musin-Pushkin. The mission at the Perpetual Diet of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in Regensburg, created by the decree of Elizabeth I on November 12 (23), 1756, was to become a new dip…
Academic Conference “European Diplomats of Modernity: Destiny and Career”
Behaviour Strategies of the Foreign Diplomats at the Perpetual Diet of the Holy Roman Empire in the 18th Century
The article analyses the changes that took place in the official diplomatic communication of European rulers after the Thirty Years' War and the conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, which affirmed a number of sovereign rights to the Estates of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation (and former vassals of the emperor), including the right to send and receive ambassadors. The new sovereigns, primarily the princes-electors, began to fi…
Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence From Russia
Do new communication technologies, such as social media, alleviate the collective action problem? This paper provides evidence that penetration of VK, the dominant Russian online social network, led to more protest activity during a wave of protests in Russia in 2011. As a source of exogenous variation in network penetration, we use the information on the city of origin of the students who studied with the founder of VK, controlling for the city …
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
How do the Internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical evidence from the recent political economy literature, focusing primarily on work that considers traits that distinguish the Internet and social media from traditional off-line media, such as low barriers to entry and reliance on user-generated content. We discuss the main results about the effects of the Internet in general, and social media in particular, on vot…
The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and Its Institutions in the Representations of Russian Diplomacy in 1740s —1770s
The article discusses the representations of Russian diplomats who served in Vienna, Frankfurt am Main and Regensburg in the 1740s — 1770s on the Holy Roman Empire and its institutions in the context of international relations of the era and Russia's foreign policy challenges. These representations are reflected in the correspondence of diplomats with Russian monarchs and the leadership of the College of Foreign Affairs, which is held at the Arch…
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
Our Interest Demanded to Make a Replacement”: Appointments to Diplomatic Posts in the Early Reign of Catherine II
The article is devoted to the personnel policy of the Russian Foreign Office (the College of Foreign Affairs) in the early years of Catherine II’s reign. Through the analysis of biographical data of 28 diplomats (including citizenship, social origin, education and career stages) who served in 15 Russian missions abroad, the reasons for the diplomatic replacement, as well as the criteria for selecting candidates for vacancies, are revealed. The au…
Diplomats of Foreign Origin in the Service of the Russian Empire in the Second Half of the 18th Century: Opportunities and Career Limits (a Case of the Mission in Regensburg)
Ecosystem Services as Boundary Objects for Transdisciplinary Collaboration
Radio and the Rise of The Nazis in Prewar Germany
How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a dictatorial regime? We study these questions in the context of Germany of the 1920s and 1930s. During the democratic period, when the Weimar government introduced progovernment political news, the growth of Nazi popularity slowed down in areas with access to radio. This effect was reversed during the campaign for the last competi…
Cross-Border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia
How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII, the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a decade of peace, cross-border nationalistic Serbian radio triggers ethnic hatred toward Serbs in Croatia. Mostly attracted by nonpolitical content, many Croats listen to Serbian public radio (intended for Serbs in Serbia) whenever signal is available. As a result, the vot…
A carta perdida Um causo narrado pelo diácono da igreja de
Tradução do russo por Maria Petrova, Giselle Mussi de Moura
Newspapers and Parties: How Advertising Revenues Created an Independent Press
Media freedom strongly inhibits corruption and promotes good governance, but what leads to media freedom? Do economic development and higher advertising revenues tend to make media outlets independent of political groups' influence? Using data on nineteenth-century American newspapers, I show that places with higher advertising revenues were likelier to have newspapers that were independent of political parties. Similar results hold when local ad…
Ecosystem Services as Boundary Objects for Transdisciplinary Collaboration
Demanding development: The political economy of climate finance and overseas investments from China
This paper examines the drivers of Chinese overseas financing in renewable energy and the political economy factors in recipient countries that steer this finance towards climate-friendly projects. We examine utility-scale renewable energy projects in Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Pakistan, and Romania. Through in-depth interviews with policymakers and relevant stakeholders, we gathered data on the factors that le…
Cross-border media and nationalism: Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia
How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII: the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a decade of peace, cross-border nationalistic Serbian radio triggers ethnic hatred towards Serbs in Croatia. Mostly attracted by non-political content, many Croats listen to Serbian public radio (intended for Serbs in Serbia) whenever signal is available. As a result, the v…
Media and Political Persuasion: Evidence from Russia
This paper compares electoral outcomes of 1999 parliamentary elections in Russia among geographical areas with differential access to the only national TV channel independent from the government. It was available to three-quarters of Russia's population and its signal availability was idiosyncratic, conditional on observables. Independent TV decreased aggregate vote for the government party by 8.9 percentage points, increased the combined vote fo…
Newspapers and Parties: How Advertising Revenues Created an Independent Press
Media freedom strongly inhibits corruption and promotes good governance, but what leads to media freedom? Do economic development and higher advertising revenues tend to make media outlets independent of political groups' influence? Using data on nineteenth-century American newspapers, I show that places with higher advertising revenues were likelier to have newspapers that were independent of political parties. Similar results hold when local ad…
Cross-Border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia
Field experiment estimate of electoral fraud in Russian parliamentary elections
Electoral fraud is a widespread phenomenon, especially outside the developed world. Despite abundant qualitative and anecdotal evidence on its existence from around the world, there is very limited quantitative evidence on the extent of electoral fraud. We exploit random assignment of independent observers to 156 of 3,164 polling stations in the city of Moscow to estimate the effect of electoral fraud on the outcome of the Russian parliamentary e…
Radio and the Rise of Nazis in Pre-War Germany
The Compreno Semantic Model: The Universality Problem
Journal Article The Compreno Semantic Model: The Universality Problem Get access M.A. Petrova M.A. Petrova ABBYY, Moscow, Russia ([email protected]) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 27, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 105–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ect038 Published: 10 December 2013
Cross-Border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia
How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII, the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a decade of peace, cross-border nationalistic Serbian radio triggers ethnic hatred toward Serbs in Croatia. Mostly attracted by nonpolitical content, many Croats listen to Serbian public radio (intended for Serbs in Serbia) whenever signal is available. As a result, the vot…
A carta perdida Um causo narrado pelo diácono da igreja de
Tradução do russo por Maria Petrova, Giselle Mussi de Moura
Radio and the Rise of The Nazis in Prewar Germany
How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a dictatorial regime? We study these questions in the context of Germany of the 1920s and 1930s. During the democratic period, when the Weimar government introduced progovernment political news, the growth of Nazi popularity slowed down in areas with access to radio. This effect was reversed during the campaign for the last competi…
Ecosystem Services as Boundary Objects for Transdisciplinary Collaboration
Diplomats of Foreign Origin in the Service of the Russian Empire in the Second Half of the 18th Century: Opportunities and Career Limits (a Case of the Mission in Regensburg)
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
Our Interest Demanded to Make a Replacement”: Appointments to Diplomatic Posts in the Early Reign of Catherine II
The article is devoted to the personnel policy of the Russian Foreign Office (the College of Foreign Affairs) in the early years of Catherine II’s reign. Through the analysis of biographical data of 28 diplomats (including citizenship, social origin, education and career stages) who served in 15 Russian missions abroad, the reasons for the diplomatic replacement, as well as the criteria for selecting candidates for vacancies, are revealed. The au…
Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence From Russia
Do new communication technologies, such as social media, alleviate the collective action problem? This paper provides evidence that penetration of VK, the dominant Russian online social network, led to more protest activity during a wave of protests in Russia in 2011. As a source of exogenous variation in network penetration, we use the information on the city of origin of the students who studied with the founder of VK, controlling for the city …
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
How do the Internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical evidence from the recent political economy literature, focusing primarily on work that considers traits that distinguish the Internet and social media from traditional off-line media, such as low barriers to entry and reliance on user-generated content. We discuss the main results about the effects of the Internet in general, and social media in particular, on vot…
The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and Its Institutions in the Representations of Russian Diplomacy in 1740s —1770s
The article discusses the representations of Russian diplomats who served in Vienna, Frankfurt am Main and Regensburg in the 1740s — 1770s on the Holy Roman Empire and its institutions in the context of international relations of the era and Russia's foreign policy challenges. These representations are reflected in the correspondence of diplomats with Russian monarchs and the leadership of the College of Foreign Affairs, which is held at the Arch…
Career Strategies of Russian Diplomats in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century (the Cases of I.M. Simolin and P.A. Levashev)
The article examines the careers of the famous eighteenth-century Russian diplomats Ivan Matveevich Simolin and Pavel Artemyevich Levashev, whose paths repeatedly crossed – in Copenhagen, Vienna, and Regensburg, creating tension between them. Analysing the correspondence of diplomats preserved in the Archives of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire and the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents, the author concludes that they acted in the…
The International Position of Russia at the Beginning of the Seven Years’ War in the Instructions of the College of Foreign Affairs to Residents in Regensburg and Gdansk
The article publishes two sources from the Archives of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire – instructions of the College of Foreign Affairs dated December 31, 1756 (January 11, 1757) to the residents in Regensburg and Gdansk, G.H. Büttner and A.S. Musin-Pushkin. The mission at the Perpetual Diet of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in Regensburg, created by the decree of Elizabeth I on November 12 (23), 1756, was to become a new dip…
Academic Conference “European Diplomats of Modernity: Destiny and Career”
Behaviour Strategies of the Foreign Diplomats at the Perpetual Diet of the Holy Roman Empire in the 18th Century
The article analyses the changes that took place in the official diplomatic communication of European rulers after the Thirty Years' War and the conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, which affirmed a number of sovereign rights to the Estates of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation (and former vassals of the emperor), including the right to send and receive ambassadors. The new sovereigns, primarily the princes-electors, began to fi…
The Recognition of the Imperial Title of Russian Sovereigns by the Holy Roman Empire: The Problem and Its Solutions (first half of the 1740s)
Drawing upon unpublished documents from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, the author, for the first time in historical scholarship, examines various scenarios of recognition of the imperial titles of Ivan VI Antonovich and Elizaveta Petrovna by the Emperor and Estates of the Holy Roman Empire in the early years of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748).The recognition of the title, adopted by Peter the Great in 1721, si…
Demanding development: The political economy of climate finance and overseas investments from China
This paper examines the drivers of Chinese overseas financing in renewable energy and the political economy factors in recipient countries that steer this finance towards climate-friendly projects. We examine utility-scale renewable energy projects in Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Pakistan, and Romania. Through in-depth interviews with policymakers and relevant stakeholders, we gathered data on the factors that le…
Ceremonial at the Court of Frederick the Great in 1748: Reflections from the Russian Diplomat Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk
The document from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire published in this article is an original diplomatic relation in German, compiled 2 (13) January 1748 by the minister plenipotentiary in Berlin count Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk and its translation into Russian, made in the College of Foreign Affairs as soon as it was received. The document was a response to the Empress Elisabeth’ circular rescript of 8 December 1747, addressed…
Language Practices of the Brothers Simolin, Russian Foreign-Born Diplomats, in the Second Half of the 18th Century
This article considers the usage of native and foreign languages in the multinational community of Russian diplomats in the second half of the eighteenth century, especially by the immigrants from the Ostsee (Baltic) provinces of the Russian Empire annexed as a result of the Great Northern War of 1700–1721. Incorporating the approaches of new diplomatic history that applies the methods of sociolinguistics and studies, among others, the national, …
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