Oleg Rusakovskiy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6588563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oleg Rusakovskiy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oleg |
| FAMILY NAME | Rusakovskiy |
| SIGNATURE | RUSAKOVSKIY O |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7065-2993 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Women and Children in Foreign Mercenary Regiments During the Smolensk War
This article discusses the presence of women and children in early modern military communities with reference to the foreign regiments in Russian service during the Smolensk War of 1632–1634. While gender history has been extensively researched in the context of Western European military history, it has not yet received much attention in studies of seventeenth-century Russian warfare. The article explores possible avenues for such research, drawi…
An Index of Chemical Substances and Plants in the Military Book of 1607
The article presents an annotated publication of a fragment from the Military Book of 1607, the earliest Russian translation of a European military treatise. This translation was based on the second volume of the German compendium Kriegsbuch, published in 1573 by Leonhard von Fronsperger. At the end of their work, the translators Mikhail Yuriev and Ivan Fomin, employed at the Ambassadorial Chancery, placed an index of the mentioned mineral and or…
Russian Translations of Foreign Military Books in the 17th Century
The article explores the role of military treatises and manuals as objects and factors in cultural and technology transfer from Western Europe to Russia in the 17 th century in a comparative perspective. Listing the treatises on military tactics, organization and technology, translated for the needs of the Russian monarchs before the radical Westernizing reforms under Tsar Peter I started in 1700, the article analyses how these texts were perceiv…
Certain Observaunt Touching the City and the Empire of Muscovia
This article publishes and analyses Certain Observaunt Touching the City and the Empire of Muscovia (ca. 1634), a previously unknown anonymous English description of Russia, and two letters from the National Archives, London, related to it. The Observaunt includes eight paragraphs dedicated to printing and education in Russia, the activities of Greek monks in Moscow, the country’s geography, the organisation of the Ambassadorial Chancery, foreign…
Foreign Military Law and Mercenary Contract in Seventeenth-Century Russia
The article aims to discuss how the Russian government dealt with foreign military law based on mercenary contracts while recruiting troops in Germany and Britain for the Smolensk campaign of 1632 to 1634. In the agreements made with foreign colonels that survive in contemporary Russian translations, the Tsar’s officials granted an almost unlimited legal and administrative autonomy to foreign military commanders in order to make service in Russia…
A Latin Poem Translated into Russian in 1670
This paper offers an analysis of an early prose translation of a Latin panegyrical poem into Russian. The poem, “In lavdem Lvdovici XIII” was written by Peter / Petrus / Pierre Valens in 1623 or earlier. It was included in the book “Maneige Royal”, first published in 1623 under the name of A. de Pluvinel, who was the riding teacher of the young King Louis XIII. The book was translated into Russian in 1670, albeit not from the original French edit…
Foreigners are said to be wise and honest but they teach us false things’
This article focuses on ‘On Military Tactics’ (‘O ratnom povedenii’), composed in winter 1700/1701 by Ivan Pososhkov and considered to be one of the first analytical military treatises written in the Russian language. Pososhkov heavily criticized foreign influences on native warfare, in particular, the Western infantry tactics and drill introduced by the tsar Peter the Great and his predecessors and reflected some controversial problems of contem…
The Russian Edition of Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen’s »Kriegskunst zu Fuß« (1649)
The article deals with the history of the »Uchenie i khitrost’ ratnogo stroeniia pekhotnykh liudeĭ« – the first Russian book on military art issued in print in Moscow in 1649. Being a full and exact translation of the »Kriegskunst zu Fuß« by Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen (1615), the »Uchenie« has for a long time been recognized by historians as the first Russian effective drill manual which played an important role in the modernization of infantry…
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The Russian Edition of Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen’s »Kriegskunst zu Fuß« (1649)
The article deals with the history of the »Uchenie i khitrost’ ratnogo stroeniia pekhotnykh liudeĭ« – the first Russian book on military art issued in print in Moscow in 1649. Being a full and exact translation of the »Kriegskunst zu Fuß« by Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen (1615), the »Uchenie« has for a long time been recognized by historians as the first Russian effective drill manual which played an important role in the modernization of infantry…
A Latin Poem Translated into Russian in 1670
This paper offers an analysis of an early prose translation of a Latin panegyrical poem into Russian. The poem, “In lavdem Lvdovici XIII” was written by Peter / Petrus / Pierre Valens in 1623 or earlier. It was included in the book “Maneige Royal”, first published in 1623 under the name of A. de Pluvinel, who was the riding teacher of the young King Louis XIII. The book was translated into Russian in 1670, albeit not from the original French edit…
Foreigners are said to be wise and honest but they teach us false things’
This article focuses on ‘On Military Tactics’ (‘O ratnom povedenii’), composed in winter 1700/1701 by Ivan Pososhkov and considered to be one of the first analytical military treatises written in the Russian language. Pososhkov heavily criticized foreign influences on native warfare, in particular, the Western infantry tactics and drill introduced by the tsar Peter the Great and his predecessors and reflected some controversial problems of contem…
Certain Observaunt Touching the City and the Empire of Muscovia
This article publishes and analyses Certain Observaunt Touching the City and the Empire of Muscovia (ca. 1634), a previously unknown anonymous English description of Russia, and two letters from the National Archives, London, related to it. The Observaunt includes eight paragraphs dedicated to printing and education in Russia, the activities of Greek monks in Moscow, the country’s geography, the organisation of the Ambassadorial Chancery, foreign…
Foreign Military Law and Mercenary Contract in Seventeenth-Century Russia
The article aims to discuss how the Russian government dealt with foreign military law based on mercenary contracts while recruiting troops in Germany and Britain for the Smolensk campaign of 1632 to 1634. In the agreements made with foreign colonels that survive in contemporary Russian translations, the Tsar’s officials granted an almost unlimited legal and administrative autonomy to foreign military commanders in order to make service in Russia…
An Index of Chemical Substances and Plants in the Military Book of 1607
The article presents an annotated publication of a fragment from the Military Book of 1607, the earliest Russian translation of a European military treatise. This translation was based on the second volume of the German compendium Kriegsbuch, published in 1573 by Leonhard von Fronsperger. At the end of their work, the translators Mikhail Yuriev and Ivan Fomin, employed at the Ambassadorial Chancery, placed an index of the mentioned mineral and or…
Russian Translations of Foreign Military Books in the 17th Century
The article explores the role of military treatises and manuals as objects and factors in cultural and technology transfer from Western Europe to Russia in the 17 th century in a comparative perspective. Listing the treatises on military tactics, organization and technology, translated for the needs of the Russian monarchs before the radical Westernizing reforms under Tsar Peter I started in 1700, the article analyses how these texts were perceiv…
Women and Children in Foreign Mercenary Regiments During the Smolensk War
This article discusses the presence of women and children in early modern military communities with reference to the foreign regiments in Russian service during the Smolensk War of 1632–1634. While gender history has been extensively researched in the context of Western European military history, it has not yet received much attention in studies of seventeenth-century Russian warfare. The article explores possible avenues for such research, drawi…
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