title: Sex, Lies and Career. Piquant Motifs of the Lives of Russian Dignitaries
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metadata.value: Górak, Artur G.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T17:48:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T17:48:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.value: Górak A. G. Sex, Lies and Career. Piquant Motifs of the Lives of Russian Dignitaries. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 3, рp. 755–770.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.305
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33423
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metadata.value: On the eve of the World War I, the western peripheries of the Russian Empire were home to
  diasporas of Russian officials, military men and their families. Being isolated from local communities
  but at the same time highly hierarchically organised, they functioned solely within
  their own circle. Everyone knew one another to the most intimate detail. Nevertheless, their
  private lives often failed to meet the requirements imposed on the Russian officials residing
  in the borderland, which was reflected in the reports of the gendarmerie and memoirs, but
  silenced in the official documents of the institutions. Every once in a while, a lucky historian
  happens to stumble upon an opportunity to look at the same event from different angles
  through various types of sources. By presenting various cases of informal relations of Russian
  dignitaries (governors and vice-governors) with women in the Kingdom of Poland, the article
  analyses their impact on life and career. The author introduces the reader to characters of
  three Russian officials, of middle ranking on the scale of empire and dignitaries in the local
  hierarchy. The first, Mikhail Viktorovich Seletsky, the vice-governor of Lublin, despite his very
  good education and qualifications, committed suicide as a result of unhappy love for the governor’s
  daughter. The second, Ivan Dmitrievich Zaushkevich, the vice-governor of Sedlets, was
  ruined by a scandal with his mistresses, Jewish sisters, by whom he had children. In contrast,
  the third, Semyon Nikolaevich Korf, governor of Lomzhа and then Warsaw, despite his rather
  licentious behavior, made a relatively good career, which was only temporarily stopped by his
  stay in German captivity. The presented examples show the discrepancy between the official
  image of a representative of power with a rather conservative ideology and their everyday life,
  especially their sexual life. So, on the one hand, their way of life did not differ from the social
  norms of the time, which were already quite free at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries,
  especially on the western edge of the Empire. On the other hand, they were criticized by their
  superiors and the political police.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kingdom of Poland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bureaucracy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: elites
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mistress
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mikhail Viktorovich Seletskiy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ivan Dmirievich Zaushkevich
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Semen Nikolaevich Korf
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Sex, Lies and Career. Piquant Motifs of the Lives of Russian Dignitaries
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metadata.value: Article
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