Lena Marasinova
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Research interests
My research interests are related to the Russian 18th century. I have written three books devoted to the mentality of the Russian elite; mechanisms of control and channels of representation of the autocracy; the legal consciousness of Russian society. My current research is connected with the history of the death penalty in the 16th-19th centuries: in particular, the monarch's monopoly on violence and mercy and the consequences of the long moratorium on the death penalty in 18th century Russia.
Primary academic affiliation
- 2010 Metropolitan Makarii Prize.
- 2027 Marc Raeff International Prize.
- lenamarassinova@gmail.com
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Research interests
My research interests are related to the Russian 18th century. I have written three books devoted to the mentality of the Russian elite; mechanisms of control and channels of representation of the autocracy; the legal consciousness of Russian society. My current research is connected with the history of the death penalty in the 16th-19th centuries: in particular, the monarch's monopoly on violence and mercy and the consequences of the long moratorium on the death penalty in 18th century Russia.
Primary academic affiliation
- University of Muenster Germany, Guest Professor
- 2008: Habilitation (Doctor Dissertation);
- 2000, 2003: Post-doctoral Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen (Germany)
- 1998-2000: Post-doctoral Institut für osteuropäische Geschichte Tübingen (Germany)
- 1992: Candidate’s Degree (Ph.D.), Moscow Lomonosov State University, 1992
- 1985: Diploma, Moscow Lomonosov State University, 1985
- 2024 - : Münster University (Germany);
- 2022-2024: Nordost Institut (Germany);
- 1993-2023: Institute of Russian History Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow);
- 2016-2023: Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
Main monographs
Articles in English, German, French
- The Psychology of the Elite of the Russian Nobility in the Last Third of the 18th Century. (based upon correspondence), (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1999).
- State and Person: Essays on the Russian 18th Century, (Moscow: Nauka, 2008). Russian.
- Metropolitan Makarii Prize.
- “Law and Citizen in 18th Century Russia: essay on social consciousness”. Moscow. NLO. 2017. Marc Raeff International Prize.
Articles in English, German, French
- Forced Penance in Russian Monasteries in the Second Half of the 18th Century: From Punishment of the Body to Correction of the Soul // Russian History. 2022. Vol. 49: Issue 2-4. (Apr. 2023). P. 363–376.
- Le rôle des monastères dans le droit pénal et religieux : la pratique de la pénitence dans la Russie du XVIIIe siècle // Criminocorpous. Revue Hypermedia: History de la Justice, des Crimes et des Peines. 2023. №23. Enfermements : Pratiques, expériences et parcours de détention (XVIe-XIXe siècles) (Confinement: practices, experiences, and journeys of imprisonment (16th - 19th centuries). Sous la direction de Sophie Abdela et Pascal Bastien.
- The Problem of the Succession to the Throne in Eighteenth-Century Russia: The ‘Declaration of Rights’ and Pravda Voli Monaršej in Catherine II’s Papers” // Russia, Europe and the World in the Long Eighteenth-Century. Proceedings of the Xth International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. Strasbourg. 2023. P. 29-40.
- Geistliche als Ermittler: Die Kirche und das Ermittlungsverfahren in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Russland // Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 69 (2021) 3. S. 395-419.
- Dynastic Law or the Will of the Emperor: On the Problem of the Succession to the Throne in Eighteenth-Century Russia // Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2022. Vol. 45. Issue 3. P. 293-304.
- The Prayer of an Empress and the 18th Century Death Penalty Moratorium in Russia // Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture: "Studies in Early Modern Prayer: Conflicts and Crossings". Ed. by W.Gibson. 2017. V.3. November. №2. P.36-55.
- Punishment by Penance in 18th-Century Russia: Church Practices in the Service of the Secular State // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2016. №17, 2 (Spring). P.305-332. The International Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC) recognized this publication as the best article in English for 2016.
- The Alexander Brückner archive and an unknown diary of the period of the Decembrist uprising // «A Century Mad and Wise»: Russia in the Age of the Enlightenment. Ed. E.Waegemans, M.Levitt. Groningen. 2015. P.127-152.
- Russiländische Gesellschaften // Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. B.11. Stuttgart 2010. S.434-452 (Co-Autor Nolte H.-H.)
- La correspondance de la noblesse russe dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle: typologie et évolution du genre // L'épistololaire en Russie: La revue Russe. 2009. №32. P.19-34.
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