Tatiana Kushch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4432172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tatiana Kushch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tatiana |
| FAMILY NAME | Kushch |
| SIGNATURE | KUSHCH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ural Federal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9097-5466 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Marshal Boucicaut’s mission to Constantinople
This article addresses the history of French participation in the defence of Constantinople besieged by the Ottomans. In 1399, responding to the request of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos for military assistance, King Charles VI of France sent a detachment of knights under the command of Marshal of France Jean II le Meingre, nicknamed Boucicaut, to the Byzantine capital. In Constantinople, the Marshal chose offensive tactics and made a series of na…
History of Byzantium (1967): From Concept to Implementation
This article discusses the problem of the implementation in the 1950s–1970s USSR of a large-scale project of collective works covering the history of particular foreign countries. The author of the article examines the history of the creation of the summarizing work titled the “History of Byzantium” and published in 1967. By the late 1940s, the corporation of Soviet Byzantine scholars developed, who were tasked with writing the history of Byzanti…
Siege of Constantinople in 1394—1402 According Slavonic Sources
The article is devoted to the history of the Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1394—1402, which became the longest in the entire history of the Byzantine capital. Historians reconstruct these events mainly based on Byzantine and Western European (Venetian, French) sources. However, the Bulgarian and Russian chronicles contain unique information that is not found in other sources. Thus, the Russian chronicles reflect the fact that the pretender t…
Antihero of His Time: The Byzantine Emperor John VII Palaiologos
Introduction. This article reveals the political activities of John VII Palaiologos, who struggled against Manuel II Palaiologos (1391–1425) for the title of heir, and later on for power over the Byzantine Empire. John VII’s political portrait, created primarily by his competitor, presents John VII as the main culprit in inciting civil strife and involving the empire’s main enemies, the Ottomans, in its internal affairs. The purpose of the work i…
At the Origins of Soviet Byzantine Studies: The Correspondence of E. A. Kosminsky to Z. V. Udal’tsova
This article discusses the history of formation of Soviet Byzantine Studies. The focus is the relations between two researchers, Academician Evgeny A. Kosminsky, the head of the Group for the Byzantine History Studies created in the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1943 (from 1955 it was named the Sector of Byzantine History), and his disciple Zinaida V. Udal’tsova, the would-be head of Soviet Byzantinology. The arti…
Ottoman Siege of Constantinople in 1394—1402: Its Economic Aspect
The longest in the history of the Byzantine capital was the Ottoman siege of 1394—1402. By blocking the city from land and sea, Sultan Bayezid I did not attempt to storm it as he decided to break the Constantinople people down by starvation. This article discusses the economic situation in besieged Constantinople. The main problem facing the townspeople during the siege was the lack of food, primarily grain. The consequence was hunger. The given …
Celebrating the New Year in Byzantium
Introduction. Many cultures consider the first day of the new year a holiday which supposes the performance of specific rituals and rites. The traditions of New Year celebrations reflect the nature of this or that civilization, its historical experience, and religious and world-viewing constants. The said is to the full extent actual for the Byzantine civilization. The purpose of the work is to reconstruct the general scenario of official celebra…
Mistra as alterum Byzantium
This research addresses the history of Mistra, which in the Late Byzantine Period was the capital of the Despotate of Morea and the Byzantine stronghold in the Peloponnesos. The historians have interpreted Mistra, which appeared in the thirteenth century, as one of the “new cities/towns,” which shaped with no concern to classical architectural tradition. The feature of historical development of Mistra was determined by its position at a distance …
“According to Custom of the Greek Land”: Diplomatic Reception in Byzantium as Described by Ghillebert De Lannoy
The article studies the features of the late Byzantine diplomatic receptions.The author analyses the account of the Burgundian traveller and diplomat Ghillebert de Lannoy, who described diplomatic receptions at various European courts in details.Method.This study applies the methods of imagology and historical anthropology, allowing to identify the foreigner's stable and emotionally-coloured perceptions of another culture.A comparative approach i…
Island of Discord: Tenedos in the Fourteenth-Century Byzantine-Venetian Relations
This article examines the history of Venice’s struggle for the control over the Byzantine island of Tenedos. In the Late Middle Ages, this island was of great strategic importance, since its owner could control the passage of ships through the Hellespont to the Marmara and the Pontos. Following the fourth Crusade, Venice captured Tenedos, but Byzantium returned the island in 1305. Throughout the fourteenth century, La Serenissima repeatedly attem…
Translations of Scholastic Works in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium: Intellectual Dissidence
This article examines the activity of the fourteenth-century Byzantine intellectuals in translation into Greek of the works of Latin scholastics, particularly Thomas Aquinas. The author of the article notes that, before these translations, in Byzantium there was no public demand for the study of the Latin language and acquaintance with Western theological thought. The interest in Latin Scholasticism was born primarily as a response to the ideolog…
The Tunic of Christ and the Crown Jewels: Relics in the Byzantine Diplomacy of the Fourteenth Century
ntroduction. This article discusses the “reliquary diplomacy” introduced by Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos during the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1394–1402). The emperor widely used the relics in the creation of the anti-Ottoman alliance. This article addresses a specific case of this diplomatic practice, Manuel II Palaiologos’ request to Venice for a loan for the deposit on the Tunic of Christ and other relics. Methods. From the juxtapositio…
About France and French studies. Interview with Pavel Uvarov (On the 65th anniversary of his birth)
On the History of the Soviet Byzantine Studies: The Correspondence of M. Ja. Sjuzjumov to Z. V. Udal’tsova
This publication comprised the letters of Mikhail Jakovlevich Sjuzjumov, the founder of the Ural school of Byzantine Studies, to Zinaida Vladimirovna Udal’tsova, the head of the Soviet Byzantinology, with appropriate comments. The traces of their long-lasting epistolary communication reside in the Russian Academy of Sciences Archive and the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region as 55 letters by M. Ja. Sjuzjumov and 6 letters by Z. V. Udal’tsova.…
Military Сonfrontation and Сivilizational Interaction of Byzantium with the Ottomans: Changing Historiographic Paradigms
This paper presents an analytical review of historiographic experience of conceptualization of key aspects related to the studies in the Byzantine-Ottoman confrontation and interaction and analyses the main trends of appropriate researches in contemporary Byzantine studies. There is a revision of previous understanding of the Ottoman factor in Byzantine history as totally destructive and a shift from the interpretation of Byzantine-Turkish relati…
Late Byzantium in the Works of Margarita A. Poljakovskaja
This paper commemorates Margarita Adol’fovna Poljakovskaja (1933–2020), the head of the Ural school of Byzantine studies and the respected authority in the history and culture of late Byzantium. The author makes the reader acquainted with Professor Poljakovskaja’s academic biography, the topics of her researches, and the results of her studies in various aspects of the Byzantine history from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. The paper has reve…
Collective Fears and Public Moods in the Byzantine Cities during the Ottoman Sieges
The author analyzes the collective fears and the public moods in the Late Byzantine cities besieged by the Ottomans. The sources for the research are chronicles, historical and rhetorical works of Byzantine authors. The information contained in these texts allows us to understand what exactly the Byzantines feared being in the situation of the possible capture of the city by the enemy. As the present study shows, there were permanent ideas in the…
Pirates of the Aegean: Eastern Mediterranean Sea Robbery in the 15th Century
Introduction. Geopolitical changes in the Eastern Mediterranean following the Fourth Crusade destabilized the situation in the region which became the area of conflict of the Greeks, Latins, and Turks. Their rival caused the power vacuum which influenced political and economic development in the region under study. This article addresses the phenomenon of the 15th-century piracy in the context of ethnopolitical changes in the Aegean. Methods. Tak…
The Miraculous Salvation of Constantinople from the Ottoman Siege in 1422 as Viewed by the Byzantines
This article addresses the Ottoman siege ofConstantinoplein 1422, which ended with a fruitless assault on the city. Byzantine writers (John Kananos, Joseph Bryennios) described the miracle when the Mother of God appeared to go through the city walls during the assault. Contemporaries were convinced that the Mother of God, as a traditional defender and heavenly patroness ofConstantinople, helped to save the city. The author of this article have an…
Everyday Life of the Late Byzantine Imperial Court Viewed by the Contemporary
The Imperial court was the center of political life of the Byzantine Empire. It was the place where the Emperor, government departments, bureaucracy and the highest nobility were concentrated. The informal life of the Byzantine court, unlike its ceremonial life, is poorly studied by scientists. This article is devoted to the study of the daily life of the Imperial court of the time of the Palaeologoi dynasty and court manners. The main sources ar…
Power and Society under the Turkish Siege of Byzantine Thessalonica (1383—1387)
“To Prevent Our Sverdlovsk Family of Byzantinologists from Falling to Pieces”: M.Ja. Sjuzjumov’s Letters to I.P. Medvedev
«Чтобы не рассыпалась наша свердловская семейка византинистов»: письма М. Я. Сюзюмова к И. П. Медведеву - Institutional repository of Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin
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“To Prevent Our Sverdlovsk Family of Byzantinologists from Falling to Pieces”: M.Ja. Sjuzjumov’s Letters to I.P. Medvedev
«Чтобы не рассыпалась наша свердловская семейка византинистов»: письма М. Я. Сюзюмова к И. П. Медведеву - Institutional repository of Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin
Power and Society under the Turkish Siege of Byzantine Thessalonica (1383—1387)
The Miraculous Salvation of Constantinople from the Ottoman Siege in 1422 as Viewed by the Byzantines
This article addresses the Ottoman siege ofConstantinoplein 1422, which ended with a fruitless assault on the city. Byzantine writers (John Kananos, Joseph Bryennios) described the miracle when the Mother of God appeared to go through the city walls during the assault. Contemporaries were convinced that the Mother of God, as a traditional defender and heavenly patroness ofConstantinople, helped to save the city. The author of this article have an…
Everyday Life of the Late Byzantine Imperial Court Viewed by the Contemporary
The Imperial court was the center of political life of the Byzantine Empire. It was the place where the Emperor, government departments, bureaucracy and the highest nobility were concentrated. The informal life of the Byzantine court, unlike its ceremonial life, is poorly studied by scientists. This article is devoted to the study of the daily life of the Imperial court of the time of the Palaeologoi dynasty and court manners. The main sources ar…
Late Byzantium in the Works of Margarita A. Poljakovskaja
This paper commemorates Margarita Adol’fovna Poljakovskaja (1933–2020), the head of the Ural school of Byzantine studies and the respected authority in the history and culture of late Byzantium. The author makes the reader acquainted with Professor Poljakovskaja’s academic biography, the topics of her researches, and the results of her studies in various aspects of the Byzantine history from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. The paper has reve…
Collective Fears and Public Moods in the Byzantine Cities during the Ottoman Sieges
The author analyzes the collective fears and the public moods in the Late Byzantine cities besieged by the Ottomans. The sources for the research are chronicles, historical and rhetorical works of Byzantine authors. The information contained in these texts allows us to understand what exactly the Byzantines feared being in the situation of the possible capture of the city by the enemy. As the present study shows, there were permanent ideas in the…
Pirates of the Aegean: Eastern Mediterranean Sea Robbery in the 15th Century
Introduction. Geopolitical changes in the Eastern Mediterranean following the Fourth Crusade destabilized the situation in the region which became the area of conflict of the Greeks, Latins, and Turks. Their rival caused the power vacuum which influenced political and economic development in the region under study. This article addresses the phenomenon of the 15th-century piracy in the context of ethnopolitical changes in the Aegean. Methods. Tak…
The Tunic of Christ and the Crown Jewels: Relics in the Byzantine Diplomacy of the Fourteenth Century
ntroduction. This article discusses the “reliquary diplomacy” introduced by Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos during the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1394–1402). The emperor widely used the relics in the creation of the anti-Ottoman alliance. This article addresses a specific case of this diplomatic practice, Manuel II Palaiologos’ request to Venice for a loan for the deposit on the Tunic of Christ and other relics. Methods. From the juxtapositio…
About France and French studies. Interview with Pavel Uvarov (On the 65th anniversary of his birth)
On the History of the Soviet Byzantine Studies: The Correspondence of M. Ja. Sjuzjumov to Z. V. Udal’tsova
This publication comprised the letters of Mikhail Jakovlevich Sjuzjumov, the founder of the Ural school of Byzantine Studies, to Zinaida Vladimirovna Udal’tsova, the head of the Soviet Byzantinology, with appropriate comments. The traces of their long-lasting epistolary communication reside in the Russian Academy of Sciences Archive and the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region as 55 letters by M. Ja. Sjuzjumov and 6 letters by Z. V. Udal’tsova.…
Military Сonfrontation and Сivilizational Interaction of Byzantium with the Ottomans: Changing Historiographic Paradigms
This paper presents an analytical review of historiographic experience of conceptualization of key aspects related to the studies in the Byzantine-Ottoman confrontation and interaction and analyses the main trends of appropriate researches in contemporary Byzantine studies. There is a revision of previous understanding of the Ottoman factor in Byzantine history as totally destructive and a shift from the interpretation of Byzantine-Turkish relati…
“According to Custom of the Greek Land”: Diplomatic Reception in Byzantium as Described by Ghillebert De Lannoy
The article studies the features of the late Byzantine diplomatic receptions.The author analyses the account of the Burgundian traveller and diplomat Ghillebert de Lannoy, who described diplomatic receptions at various European courts in details.Method.This study applies the methods of imagology and historical anthropology, allowing to identify the foreigner's stable and emotionally-coloured perceptions of another culture.A comparative approach i…
Island of Discord: Tenedos in the Fourteenth-Century Byzantine-Venetian Relations
This article examines the history of Venice’s struggle for the control over the Byzantine island of Tenedos. In the Late Middle Ages, this island was of great strategic importance, since its owner could control the passage of ships through the Hellespont to the Marmara and the Pontos. Following the fourth Crusade, Venice captured Tenedos, but Byzantium returned the island in 1305. Throughout the fourteenth century, La Serenissima repeatedly attem…
Translations of Scholastic Works in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium: Intellectual Dissidence
This article examines the activity of the fourteenth-century Byzantine intellectuals in translation into Greek of the works of Latin scholastics, particularly Thomas Aquinas. The author of the article notes that, before these translations, in Byzantium there was no public demand for the study of the Latin language and acquaintance with Western theological thought. The interest in Latin Scholasticism was born primarily as a response to the ideolog…
Celebrating the New Year in Byzantium
Introduction. Many cultures consider the first day of the new year a holiday which supposes the performance of specific rituals and rites. The traditions of New Year celebrations reflect the nature of this or that civilization, its historical experience, and religious and world-viewing constants. The said is to the full extent actual for the Byzantine civilization. The purpose of the work is to reconstruct the general scenario of official celebra…
Mistra as alterum Byzantium
This research addresses the history of Mistra, which in the Late Byzantine Period was the capital of the Despotate of Morea and the Byzantine stronghold in the Peloponnesos. The historians have interpreted Mistra, which appeared in the thirteenth century, as one of the “new cities/towns,” which shaped with no concern to classical architectural tradition. The feature of historical development of Mistra was determined by its position at a distance …
Antihero of His Time: The Byzantine Emperor John VII Palaiologos
Introduction. This article reveals the political activities of John VII Palaiologos, who struggled against Manuel II Palaiologos (1391–1425) for the title of heir, and later on for power over the Byzantine Empire. John VII’s political portrait, created primarily by his competitor, presents John VII as the main culprit in inciting civil strife and involving the empire’s main enemies, the Ottomans, in its internal affairs. The purpose of the work i…
At the Origins of Soviet Byzantine Studies: The Correspondence of E. A. Kosminsky to Z. V. Udal’tsova
This article discusses the history of formation of Soviet Byzantine Studies. The focus is the relations between two researchers, Academician Evgeny A. Kosminsky, the head of the Group for the Byzantine History Studies created in the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1943 (from 1955 it was named the Sector of Byzantine History), and his disciple Zinaida V. Udal’tsova, the would-be head of Soviet Byzantinology. The arti…
Ottoman Siege of Constantinople in 1394—1402: Its Economic Aspect
The longest in the history of the Byzantine capital was the Ottoman siege of 1394—1402. By blocking the city from land and sea, Sultan Bayezid I did not attempt to storm it as he decided to break the Constantinople people down by starvation. This article discusses the economic situation in besieged Constantinople. The main problem facing the townspeople during the siege was the lack of food, primarily grain. The consequence was hunger. The given …
Marshal Boucicaut’s mission to Constantinople
This article addresses the history of French participation in the defence of Constantinople besieged by the Ottomans. In 1399, responding to the request of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos for military assistance, King Charles VI of France sent a detachment of knights under the command of Marshal of France Jean II le Meingre, nicknamed Boucicaut, to the Byzantine capital. In Constantinople, the Marshal chose offensive tactics and made a series of na…
History of Byzantium (1967): From Concept to Implementation
This article discusses the problem of the implementation in the 1950s–1970s USSR of a large-scale project of collective works covering the history of particular foreign countries. The author of the article examines the history of the creation of the summarizing work titled the “History of Byzantium” and published in 1967. By the late 1940s, the corporation of Soviet Byzantine scholars developed, who were tasked with writing the history of Byzanti…
Siege of Constantinople in 1394—1402 According Slavonic Sources
The article is devoted to the history of the Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1394—1402, which became the longest in the entire history of the Byzantine capital. Historians reconstruct these events mainly based on Byzantine and Western European (Venetian, French) sources. However, the Bulgarian and Russian chronicles contain unique information that is not found in other sources. Thus, the Russian chronicles reflect the fact that the pretender t…
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