“Any justice here is corrupt...” foreigners’ notes about corruption in Russia in the XVI-XVII centuries
- DOI
- 10.2991/ismge-19.2019.99How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- foreigners’ writings, corruption, “posul”, imagology, Law Code, Council code, Prikazy, waywode, nedelschik, dyak, pod’iachie.
- Abstract
The article analyzes the foreigners’ assessments of official abuse in Muscovite state in the XVI-XVII centuries. The main authors who wrote about Russian corruption are identified, the specific features of foreigners' notes are revealed, the stages in a foreign narrative are highlighted. The first stage (the beginning ‒ the first half of the XVI century) is characterized by a small number of foreigners’ writings, as well as a slight interest in corruption. At the second stage (the second half of the XVI century - the beginning of the XVII century), there is a noticeable increase in the descriptions of Russia by foreigners, and we can find travelers, diplomats, merchants, and even adventurers among the authors. The publication of some notes was preceded by many years of experience in living in Russia, which affected the nature and depth of apperception of the corruption realities. For the third stage (from the 20s ‒ 30s to the end of the XVII century), we note not only an increase in the number of foreign authors, but also an expansion of the geographical boundaries of the descriptions of the “mysterious” Muscovy. Some of foreigners’ notes acquire “academic monumentality”, which is connected with their belonging to the scientific community (A. Olearius). All in all, according to the authors, all these writings were characterized by Orientalism, which was the cause of the moralizing and arrogant nature of the narrative.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Nikolay Yu. Nikolaev AU - Sergei P. Ramazanov AU - Yuriy I. Mironov AU - Dmitry V. Garbuzov AU - Daria S. Yurchenko PY - 2019/07 DA - 2019/07 TI - “Any justice here is corrupt...” foreigners’ notes about corruption in Russia in the XVI-XVII centuries BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Practical Conference "The Individual and Society in the Modern Geopolitical Environment" (ISMGE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 522 EP - 527 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ismge-19.2019.99 DO - 10.2991/ismge-19.2019.99 ID - Nikolaev2019/07 ER -