Dinara V Dubrovskaya
Biographic Data
| ID | 4143550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dinara V Dubrovskaya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dinara V |
| FAMILY NAME | Dubrovskaya |
| SIGNATURE | DUBROVSKAYA D V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Oriental Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9372-6553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 40 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fengguan – Phoenix Crowns of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)
This paper examines little-known aspects of history and production of unique Chinese jewelry in the diancui technique, crafted from bird feathers. Diancui crowns and hairpin, use kingfisher feathers, which change color from iridescent blue to luminous green depending on the arrangement of the feather particles. Russian scholars have published very few publications on the art of kingfisher feather inlay, while several Russian museums (the State He…
The Last Case of Poirot (He Qingtai; 1735–1813)
“The magnificent eight” European masters serving at the Manchu court during the heyday of the Qing Empire in the 18th century included French linguist and painter Louis-Antoine de Poirot (1735–1813), who lived and worked in Beijing from 1770 until his death.Together with his colleague Giuseppe Panzi, Poirot (He Qingtai) rightfully belongs to the prestigious second tier of court masters who personified the Sino-European style, which introduced Chi…
Les Lettres édifiantes et curieuses
Throughout almost the entire 18th century, a multi-volume edition of letters and reports from Jesuit missionaries, who sent epistles to the Order’s leadership in Europe, was published in Paris. Originally unintended for publication, this ‘form of report,’ entitled ‘Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des Missions étrangères, par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus...,’ found its way into print and, in 1702, gave rise to one of th…
Where Did Rome Go, or Cum Eramus Romani
The paper provides a critical analysis of some theories (out of more than two hundred available) of the fall of the Roman Empire. The author takes a particularly close look at the ambiguous situation with the barbarian tribes and their leaders, who acted both on the side of the weakening Rome and on the side of the “nomadic periphery,” arguing that the Dark Ages — an outdated term for the early Middle Ages — came to the lands of the Roman Empire …
Parallel War, or From the Border “Incidents” to the Capitulation of Japan in China
The paper provides a generalized critical analysis of the causes, course and some circumstances of the [Second] Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945, which to this day remains a kind of “unknown war” that took place on the territory of mainland China parallel to the famous battles of World War II in Europe and on the territory of the USSR. The author sets the task of showing how Republican China, torn apart by internal contradictions and the need to re…
Tatiana L. Shaumyan
An interview with the famous Indologist, historian of the East, and head of the Center for the Indian Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dr. Tatiana L. Shaumyan, was prepared as а part of the project “Russian Oriental Studies — Oral History” of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, supervised by Dr. Valentin Ts. Golovachev, who publishes the authoritative series “Russian…
Once Again on the Historicity of the Shroud of Turin
Funeral shroud kept in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, represents the quintessence of humanitarian and natural science issues related to Christian monuments. A seemingly ordinary artifact — a linen shroud, with a confidently traced provenance stretching at least from the time of the 4th Crusade, does not lose its position as the holder of the title of the most mysterious object of the Christian world — the burial shroud of Jesus C…
The Quest for the Holy Grail between East and West
Entire libraries may be compiled of books, exploring the phenomenon of the Quest for the Holy Grail — its essence, meaning and the very Cup of the Last Supper in real material terms. Being one of the Christian relics that largely determined the spiritual quest of Europeans who obtained those rarities (or some things taken for them) in the Crusades, The Bratina, in which, according to the legend, St. Joseph of Arimathea collected the blood of the …
А Message from the Imperial Court to the European Reader as Written by the Painter Wang Zhicheng (Jean-Denis Attiret; 1702–1768)
French painter Jean-Denis Attiret (1702–1768) lived and worked in Beijing from 1739 until his death among the small number of European artists working at the Manchu court of China during the heyday of the Qing Empire. Attiret (Wang Zhicheng) is rightfully considered the second figure in a close-knit group of masters who personified the Sino-European style, which introduced China to European art and after the destruction and looting of the Yuanmin…
Peacocks?!” or How James Abbot McNeal Whistler (1834–1903) Redefined Chinoiserie and Patron–Artist Relationship
One of the illustrative examples of the intervention of Chinese art in the formulation of the most important styles of the late 19th – early 20th centuries and its creative tandem with Japanese culture, which was then extremely popular in Europe, is James Whistler’s Peacock Room, the famous masterpiece of aestheticism and “Anglo-Japanese style”. The time has come to reflect on this work not only using several familiar stylistic labels, but also b…
On the Dangers of International Maritime Trade in the Tang Era (The Incidents of Genocide of the Arab-Persian Population of China in 760 and 879)
At the end of the Tang Empire (618–907), the universally recognized “golden age” of imperial China, the country entered a long period of socio-political and ethnic turmoil. The broader set of problems associated with the An Lushan uprising (755–763) is widely known — this civilizational catastrophe marked a turning point in the development of the dynasty and, by impacting all aspects of a powerful empire, caused the sun to start setting on Tang C…
Vyacheslav Y. Belokrenitsky
This interview with a well-known scholar in the humanities, an orientalist historian, a Pakistani scholar and a theorist of science, the head of the Center for the Near and Middle East of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Belokrenitsky was prepared as part of the project “Russian Oriental Studies — Oral History” of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Scie…
Yury N. Roerich on the Spread of Indian Visual Images along the Great Silk Road
The paper discusses the studies of Yury N. Roerich (1902–1960) in the field of Central Asian art. In his opinion, the Great Silk Road should be considered not only as a caravan road providing trade routes between the countries of the ancient and medieval world, but also as an important arterial system of cultural interchange. The Kushan Empire, founded by the Tochars, who adopted Buddhism as the dominant religion, played a special role in the dev…
The view of Yu.N. Roerich on the Bon religion in Tibet
The theme of the Bon religion in Russian Oriental studies still remains insufficiently studied. This is due both to the complexity of the Bon doctrine itself, and to the peculiarities of the development of Russian Tibetology, which was persecuted in the Soviet era. The scientific heritage of Yu.N. Roerich (1902-1960), the Tibetologist and historian of the East, has been little studied. His study of the Tibetan Bon religion is an indisputable cont…
Xiyanglou – “Buildings of the Western Ocean
The paper gives a complex analysis of the Xiyanglou palace and park complex (“Buildings of the Western Ocean”), located on the current northwestern outskirts of Beijing, designed, and built in 1747–1751 by European masters, led by the Italian Jesuit artist Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining, 1688–1766). Castiglione, best known as a painter, acted in this case as a visionary architect and designer who skillfully integrated the “European part” into…
From Marco Polo’s Cathay to Matteo Ricci’s Sinae
The paper discusses the reasons that led to the identification of China in Europe as a country described by Venetian merchant Marco Polo under the name “Cathay” (formerly a silk-producing country, with which the Roman Empire indirectly traded). Based on the observa-tions and notes of travelers and diplomats, at the end of the 16th century the Jesuits put for-ward a hypothesis about the correspondence of the semi-mythical Kingdom of Prester John, …
Inscription No. 494 from the Temple of Toutuo as Prototype of the Inscription on the “Nestorian Monument” from Xi’an, 781 (Preliminary Notes)
The article seeks to further research the method of adaptation used by ‘imported’ schools of thought to adjust to Chinese ethical, political, philosophical and religious teachings and practices. The author does so by comparing two epigraphic monuments: A lost inscription by the secular Buddhist enthusiast Wang Jin (5th century) from the Chinese Buddhist temple Toutuo (Dhuta) and the well-known inscription on the so-called “Nestorian monument” fro…
Naviget, Haec Summa Est, or the Last Quest of Admiral Zheng He
This paper is an attempt to present a new general overview of the famous voyages of the Chinese Ming-era admiral of the Zheng He (1371–1433) both based on the main Chinese sources (Ming Shi, Taizong Shilu) and using the latest research materials. The author focuses in her study on several key questions that continue to occupy the academic community as well as the general public interested in the history of China and international relations. Among…
To the 90th Anniversary of Leonid B. Alaev
This first part of the interview with a well-known humanitarian, historian, orientalist, Indologist and theorist professor Leonid Borisovich Alaev is timed to coincide with his anniversary. The conversation touches on the main problems of Leonid B. Alaev’s research — questions of the history and theory of the community and primitive communal society, the Marxist approach to the humanities and modern search for patterns of historical development. …
Pazyryk Culture on the Ukok Plateau
The article discusses the unique heritage of the Ukok Plateau in the southeastern part of the Altai Mountains. The author shares findings from research on the ancient Scythian culture in Altai and the archaeological monuments discovered. It has been possible to expand the knowledge about the ancient inhabitants of the Plateau due to the complex research work of the groups of Russian archaeologists from Novosibirsk headed by V. I. Molodin and N. V…
To the 90th Anniversary of Leonid B. Alaev
This second part of the interview with a well-known humanitarian, historian, orientalist, Indologist and theorist professor Leonid Borisovich Alaev is timed to coincide with his anniversary. The conversation touches on the main problems of Leonid B. Alaev’s research — questions of the history and theory of the community. Interviewers are interested in the history of Leonid B. Alaev’s family, his life path before entering Moscow State University a…
Few Remarks on the Genesis of Political and Dogmatic Problems of Modern Catholicism in China
The paper presents an attempt to fill in some research gaps in the relationships between the Government and Catholics of the People’s Republic of China with the Vatican and with the Catholic Church as a whole. It is a common knowledge, that there are no official ties between Chinese Catholics and the Holy See, which is caused not only by general historical reasons, but also by specific circumstances, which include the tragedy associated with the …
Franciscan Minorite Monks in China from the “Great Religious Incident” to the Cultural Revolution
The article is an attempt to systematize the preaching of the Franciscan order in China, starting with the Papal embassies to the Great Khans who conquered the Middle Empire and founded the Yuan dynasty until the end of the 20th century. The author groups the information into several major periods, suggesting a five-stage periodization of the Franciscan presence in the Far East. A change in the preaching paradigm is noted during the 700 centuries…
The Way Athanasius Kircher Illustrated China in His “China Illustrata” (1667)
The paper seeks to further research the long-forgotten compilation work of the German Jesuit encyclopedist of the 17th century Athanasius Kircher “China Illustrata ...”, which has acquired relevance since the beginning of the 21st century not only in the context of the European Sinology history, but also in historical, imagological and philosophical-missiological context. The publication aims to integrate this hitherto little-known and underestim…
The Return of Giuseppe Castiglione
Recognized leader of European masters at the court of the Manchu rulers of China in the 18th century, Italian Jesuit artist Giuseppe Castiglione gained wide popularity among art critics and connoisseurs of Chinese art only in the post-war period, which is both natural and paradoxical, because the young Baroque master who had departed for China as a Jesuit lay brother disappeared from European art history, of course, without getting lost in the ar…
From Papal Envoys to Martyrs of the Faith
The article is an attempt to systematize the preaching of the Franciscan order in China, starting with the papal embassies to the Great Khans who conquered the Middle Empire and founded the Yuan dynasty until the end of the 20th century. The author groups the information into several major periods, suggesting a five-stage periodization of the Franciscan presence in the Far East. A change in the preaching paradigm is noted during the 700 centuries…
Biblia Natalis in Russia and in the East
The Oriental Vernissage opens with a coverage of an exhibition dedicated to a unique item that is interestingly relevant to several research directions reflected in this pilot edition of the OC. Jérôme Nadal’s illustrated Gospel, the rare extant copy of which in Russia is kept in the collection of the Central Andrei Rublev Museum in Moscow, was used by Jesuit missionaries to preach Christianity in China, India and Mexico; and in Russia, his engra…
Lang Shining’s Paradigm, and the Castiglioneschi from the State Museum of Oriental Art (Vladimir S. Kalabushkin’s Collection)
The article looks at a small group of scrolls signed by Lang Shining (Giuseppe Castiglione) from the collection of the State Museum of Oriental Art (hereafter SMOA). The author tries to clarify the reasons for the time-honoured yet mistaken attribution of one such scroll to Castiglione and traces the influence and transformation of the style, motifs, and specific characteristics of his paintings against the SMOA scrolls, which date from the end o…
Orientalism and Occidentalism
Glamdring
Five years have passed since Mikhail Gorelik, well-known expert on the material culture of the East, artist, archaeologist, one of the fathers of the Russian reconstruction movement, Orientalist, colleague, and friend, passed away. In the currently much demanded genre of oral history, OC publishes recollections of Mikhail Viktorovich — Misha — Gorelik, with whom the editorial staff were friends for many years
Vassily Vereshshagin and Eastern Wars
The review of 2018 Vassily Vereshchagin's monographic exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val focuses on several important topics of the Oriental Studies: The artist, most often associated with a mountain of skulls in his painting “Apotheosis of War”, is shown as a systemic orientalist with a special method— impartial, stringer-like and seemingly detached. Using the example of his “They Triumph” painting, the author examines her …
Patriarch Nestorius and “Luminous Religion” Jingjiao
The article examines theological foundations of the preaching of the followers of the Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, who was the first to bring the information about Christianity to China during the Tang era. The author shows that despite the schism that led to the departure of some Christians from Byzantium and caused the emergence of the Assyrian Church and the Church of the East, the “Nestorians” who reached the Tang capital Chang'an (…
“I Want Our Institute to Be a Generator of Ideas for the East”
The present “Eastern Tea Party” of the Oriental Courier Staff, this time organized with the help of Zoom, targeted the recently elected Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences — Alikber K. Alikberov and was held by our correspondent Marina Starodubtseva and Editor-in-chief Dinara Dubrovskaya. In a difficult 2020, Alikber Alikberov presented his doctoral dissertation, won the election of the Director of the…
Black Monks Сontra Black Robes
The article examines the key theoretical and theological disagreements between theorists of the two Catholic monastic orders — Dominicans and Jesuits — on key issues of the Christian faith and preaching. The author sets out the task of showing how these discrepancies were reflected in the enmity of the two monastic foreign missions in the preaching of Christianity in China in the 16th — 18th centuries, coming to the conclusion that such ideologic…
Speaking with Birds in Chinese. Franciscan Thought on the Middle Kingdom Proselytization
The difficult task of preaching Christianity in China was undertaken by several Catholic missionary orders, the first of which was the order of the Franciscans. The article examines philosophical and theoretical foundations of Franciscan “inculturation”, which served as the basis of their missionary practice, arising from the ideas and activities of the founder of the order – Francis of Assisi, in particular from his belief in the need to declare…
Matteo Ricci’s Dell’Amicizia as Medium for Successful Christian Proselytization in Ming China
Dell’ Amicizia was not simply the first piece ever written by a European in Chinese, but a prized item in a number of prominent Chinese encyclopedias and literary collections. The article looks at the origins of this essay, the circumstances in which it was written, the structure of the treatise, and the extent of its spread. Based on the most popular maxims of European philosophical thought, from classical antiquity to a collection of Latin apho…
The Return of Giuseppe Castiglione
Recognized leader of European masters at the court of the Manchu rulers of China in the 18th century, Italian Jesuit artist Giuseppe Castiglione gained wide popularity among art critics and connoisseurs of Chinese art only in the post-war period, which is both natural and paradoxical, because the young Baroque master who had departed for China as a Jesuit lay brother disappeared from European art history, of course, without getting lost in the ar…
Memory Album
On November 5, 2021, Vyacheslav Y. Belokrenitsky, an outstanding Russian orientalist, doctor of historical sciences, professor, organizer of science, head of the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, celebrated his 80th birthday. The works of the scholar on the history and social development of Pakistan, India, the Middle East, on the problems of demography, Islam, international re…
The Last Knight of Jerusalem
The article describes the events that led to the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the role in holding the position of Christians at the Holy Sepulcher, played by the penultimate ruler of this Crusader state in the East — King Baudouin (Baldwin) IV. The author examines some historical preconceptions implying the guilt of the “Leper King” in the fall of Christian states and based on the chronicle of William of Tire shows that Baudouin was a muc…
Franciscan Missionaries the Alanian Guard and the Black Steed that Subdued the Pope to Yuan China
Using the example of the ambassadorial mission of Giovanni Marignoli, a Franciscan priest and envoy of the Pope to the last Mongol emperor of China Shun-di, the article examines the special meaning of the ambassador’s gift, a black horse, perceived by the emperor in a symbolic way unbeknownst to European envoys. In the era when the West tried to understand the further intentions of the Mongols (“Tatars”) who frightened Europe with their offensive…
From Papal Envoys to Martyrs of the Faith
The article is an attempt to systematize the preaching of the Franciscan order in China, starting with the papal embassies to the Great Khans who conquered the Middle Empire and founded the Yuan dynasty until the end of the 20th century. The author groups the information into several major periods, suggesting a five-stage periodization of the Franciscan presence in the Far East. A change in the preaching paradigm is noted during the 700 centuries…
Luoyang Column, the Second Epigraphic Monuments of the ‘Luminous Religion’ (jingjiao), and the Chinese ‘Nestorian’ Canon
The article examines the comparative evidence of two epigraphic monuments of the Eastern Christianity in China – the famous Nestorian Monument from Xian (Xian-fu) and the recently discovered octagonal ‘Luoyang Column’, containing doctrinal and liturgical texts translated by Syrian and Sogdian representatives of the Church of the East in Tang China, inertially called ‘Nestorian’ (known in the Middle Kingdom as Daqin Jinjiao, ‘Luminous religion fro…
Inscription No. 494 from the Temple of Toutuo as Prototype of the Inscription on the “Nestorian Monument” from Xi’an, 781 (Preliminary Notes)
The article seeks to further research the method of adaptation used by ‘imported’ schools of thought to adjust to Chinese ethical, political, philosophical and religious teachings and practices. The author does so by comparing two epigraphic monuments: A lost inscription by the secular Buddhist enthusiast Wang Jin (5th century) from the Chinese Buddhist temple Toutuo (Dhuta) and the well-known inscription on the so-called “Nestorian monument” fro…
Naviget, Haec Summa Est, or the Last Quest of Admiral Zheng He
This paper is an attempt to present a new general overview of the famous voyages of the Chinese Ming-era admiral of the Zheng He (1371–1433) both based on the main Chinese sources (Ming Shi, Taizong Shilu) and using the latest research materials. The author focuses in her study on several key questions that continue to occupy the academic community as well as the general public interested in the history of China and international relations. Among…
To the 90th Anniversary of Leonid B. Alaev
This first part of the interview with a well-known humanitarian, historian, orientalist, Indologist and theorist professor Leonid Borisovich Alaev is timed to coincide with his anniversary. The conversation touches on the main problems of Leonid B. Alaev’s research — questions of the history and theory of the community and primitive communal society, the Marxist approach to the humanities and modern search for patterns of historical development. …
Pazyryk Culture on the Ukok Plateau
The article discusses the unique heritage of the Ukok Plateau in the southeastern part of the Altai Mountains. The author shares findings from research on the ancient Scythian culture in Altai and the archaeological monuments discovered. It has been possible to expand the knowledge about the ancient inhabitants of the Plateau due to the complex research work of the groups of Russian archaeologists from Novosibirsk headed by V. I. Molodin and N. V…
To the 90th Anniversary of Leonid B. Alaev
This second part of the interview with a well-known humanitarian, historian, orientalist, Indologist and theorist professor Leonid Borisovich Alaev is timed to coincide with his anniversary. The conversation touches on the main problems of Leonid B. Alaev’s research — questions of the history and theory of the community. Interviewers are interested in the history of Leonid B. Alaev’s family, his life path before entering Moscow State University a…
Few Remarks on the Genesis of Political and Dogmatic Problems of Modern Catholicism in China
The paper presents an attempt to fill in some research gaps in the relationships between the Government and Catholics of the People’s Republic of China with the Vatican and with the Catholic Church as a whole. It is a common knowledge, that there are no official ties between Chinese Catholics and the Holy See, which is caused not only by general historical reasons, but also by specific circumstances, which include the tragedy associated with the …
Franciscan Minorite Monks in China from the “Great Religious Incident” to the Cultural Revolution
The article is an attempt to systematize the preaching of the Franciscan order in China, starting with the Papal embassies to the Great Khans who conquered the Middle Empire and founded the Yuan dynasty until the end of the 20th century. The author groups the information into several major periods, suggesting a five-stage periodization of the Franciscan presence in the Far East. A change in the preaching paradigm is noted during the 700 centuries…
The Way Athanasius Kircher Illustrated China in His “China Illustrata” (1667)
The paper seeks to further research the long-forgotten compilation work of the German Jesuit encyclopedist of the 17th century Athanasius Kircher “China Illustrata ...”, which has acquired relevance since the beginning of the 21st century not only in the context of the European Sinology history, but also in historical, imagological and philosophical-missiological context. The publication aims to integrate this hitherto little-known and underestim…
On the Dangers of International Maritime Trade in the Tang Era (The Incidents of Genocide of the Arab-Persian Population of China in 760 and 879)
At the end of the Tang Empire (618–907), the universally recognized “golden age” of imperial China, the country entered a long period of socio-political and ethnic turmoil. The broader set of problems associated with the An Lushan uprising (755–763) is widely known — this civilizational catastrophe marked a turning point in the development of the dynasty and, by impacting all aspects of a powerful empire, caused the sun to start setting on Tang C…
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