Thermokarst (thaw) lakes of the Western Siberian Lowland (WSL), the World´s largest permafrost peatland, contain important but poorly constrained stocks of organic carbon (OC) and nitrogen. These ...lakes are highly vulnerable to climate warming and permafrost thaw. The present work aims to quantify the OC and total nitrogen (TN) stocks and accumulation rates in sediments of 11 thermokarst lakes in the WSL across a permafrost gradient, from isolated to discontinuous and continuous permafrost. We found an increase in OC and TN stocks in lake sediments (0–30 cm) from the northern taiga with sporadic permafrost (285 Tg C and 10.5 Tg N) to the tundra zone with continuous permafrost (628 Tg C and 26 Tg N). The upper 30 cm thermokarst lake sediments of the permafrost-affected WSL store 1250 ± 35 Tg C and 50 ± 1.4 Tg N). The OC accumulation rates in thermokarst lake sediments ranged from 36 to 250 g C m
−2
year
−1
, which is 5 to 10 times higher than C accumulation rates in peatlands of western Siberia. The total OC accumulation in lakes of WSL is 7.8 ± 0.7 Tg C year
−1
. This is about 24–47% of the C emission from the WSL thermokarst lakes, implying that it represents an important factor in the C budget to consider in order to understand impacts of climate change and permafrost thaw on the C cycle.
A key figure in the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, Yuri Tynianov sought to revolutionize--and liberate--thinking about literature and the other arts. Permanent Evolution gathers ...together for the first time Tynianov's seminal articles on literary theory and film.
The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840—the century during which poets ...defined the main questions facing Russian literature and society. Harsha Ram shows how imperial ideology became implicated in an unexpectedly wide range of issues, from formal problems of genre, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poet and the ruling monarch.
In the current paper, the analysis of heavy mineral concentrate (Schlich analysis) was used to study the particles of technogenic origin in the samples of urban surface-deposited sediments (USDS). ...The USDS samples were collected in the residential areas of 10 Russian cities located in different economic, climatic, and geological zones: Ufa, Perm, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil, Magnitogorsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Murmansk, and Ekaterinburg. The number of technogenic particles was determined in the coarse particle size fractions of 0.1–0.25 and 0.25–1 mm. The types of technogenic particle were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis. The amount of technogenic material differed from city to city; the fraction of technogenic particles in the samples varied in the range from 0.01 to 0.43 with an average value of 0.18. The technogenic particles in USDS samples were represented by lithoid and granulated slag, iron and silicate microspheres, fragments of brick, paint, glass, plaster, and other household waste. Various types of technogenic particle differed in morphological characteristics as well as in chemical composition. The novelty and significance of the study comprises the following: it has been shown that technogenic particles are contained in a significant part of the USDS; the quantitative indicators of the accumulation of technogenic particles in the urban landscape have been determined; the contributions of various types of particles to the total amount of technogenic material were estimated for the urban landscape; the trends in the transformation of typomorphic elemental associations in the urban sediments associated with the material of technogenic origin were demonstrated; and the alteration trends in the USDS microelemental content were revealed, taking into account the impurities in the composition of technogenic particles.
Rimsky-Korsakov and His World Marina Frolova-Walker / Marina Frolova-Walker
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A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only ...in his native Russia but also internationally. While he remains well-known in Russia-where many of his fifteen operas and various orchestral pieces are still in the standard repertoire-very little of his work is performed in the West today beyondScheherezadeand arrangements ofThe Flight of the Bumblebee. In Western writings, he appears mainly in the context of the Mighty Handful, a group of five Russian composers to which he belonged at the outset of his career.Rimsky-Korsakov and His Worldfinally gives the composer center stage and due attention.
In this collection, Rimsky-Korsakov's major operas,The Snow Maiden,Mozart and Salieri, andThe Golden Cockerel, receive multifaceted exploration and are carefully contextualized within the wider Russian culture of the era. The discussion of these operas is accompanied and enriched by the composer's letters to Nadezhda Zabela, the distinguished soprano for whom he wrote several leading roles. Other essays look at more general aspects of Rimsky-Korsakov's work and examine his far-reaching legacy as a professor of composition and orchestration, including his impact on his most famous pupil Igor Stravinsky.
The contributors are Lidia Ader, Leon Botstein, Emily Frey, Marina Frolova-Walker, Adalyat Issiyeva, Simon Morrison, Anna Nisnevich, Olga Panteleeva, and Yaroslav Timofeev.
The Bard Music Festival
Bard Music Festival 2018Rimsky-Korsakov and His WorldBard CollegeAugust 10-12 and August 17-19, 2018
Sovereignty Experimentstells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan-through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and ...cultural policies-competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the process of establishing sovereignty across four states because they tested the limits of state power over territory and people in a borderland where authority had been long asserted but not necessarily enforced. Traveling from place to place, Koreans compelled statesmen to take notice of their movement and to experiment with various policies to govern it. Ultimately, states' efforts culminated in drastic measures, including the complete removal of Koreans on the Soviet side. As Park demonstrates, what resulted was the stark border regime that still stands between North Korea, Russia, and China today.
Skillfully employing a rich base of archival sources from across the region,Sovereignty Experimentssets forth a new approach to the transnational history of Northeast Asia. By focusing on mobility and governance, Park illuminates why this critical intersection of Asia was contested, divided, and later reimagined as parts of distinct nations and empires. The result is a fresh interpretation of migration, identity, and state making at the crossroads of East Asia and Russia.
Focusing on the gestures of giving, touching, showing and handcrafting, this study examines key scenes of tactile interaction between subject and artifact. The readings of this book call for a ...revision of an optically obscured aesthetics and poetics to include haptic experience as an often overlooked but pivotal part of the making as well as the perception of literature and the arts.
Special Issue of Arts: “Slavic and Eastern-European Visuality: Modernity and Tradition” is focused on researching interactions of art and literature, of philosophy and visual poetry, and generally on ...theoretical aspects of cultural analysis.
Special Issue of Arts: “Slavic and Eastern-European Visuality: Modernity and Tradition” is focused on researching interactions of art and literature, of philosophy and visual poetry, and generally on ...theoretical aspects of cultural analysis.
This second book in a three-volume work on the young Fyodor Dostoevsky is a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from letters, memoirs, and criticism of the writer, as well as from the testimony ...and witness of family and friends, readers and reviewers, and observers and participants in his life. The result of an exhaustive search of published materials on Dostoevsky, this volume sheds crucial light on the many unexplored corners of Dostoevsky's life in the time between the success of his first novel, Poor Folk, and the failure of his next four works. Thomas Gaiton Marullo lets the original writers speak for themselves—the good and the bad, the truth and the lies—and adds extensive notes with correctives, counterarguments, and other pertinent information. Marullo looks closely at Dostoevsky's increasingly tense ties with Vissarion Belinsky, Nikolai Nekrasov, Ivan Turgenev, and other figures of the Russian literary world. He then turns to the individuals who afforded Dostoevsky security and peace amid the often negative reception from fellow writers and readers of his early fiction. Finally, Marullo shows us Dostoevsky's break with the Belinsky circle; his struggle to stay afloat emotionally and financially; and his determination to succeed as a writer while staying true to his vision, most notably, his insights into human psychology that would become a hallmark of his later fiction. This clear and comprehensive portrait of one of the world's greatest writers provides a window into his younger years in a way no other biography has to date.
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