2015. Vol. 157, No. 3

Archaeology

Bocharov S.G., Maslovskiy A.N. Written Sources of Information about the Italian Leather Trade in the Northern Black Sea Region and Archaeological Evidence

7

Vasil'ev D.V. The City of Saksin: Geographical Location and Population (According to the Written Sources and Materials from Samosdelka Settlement)

12

Kazantseva O.A. Metal Ingots in the Materials of the Burial Grounds Constructed during the 1st–5th Centuries in the Basin of the Tulva River

25

Nedashkovsky L.F., Shigapov M.B. Wearing-Apparel Components and Mirrors from the Hmelevskoe I Settlement

34

Rudenko K.A. A.F. Likhachev's Great Bulgaria: the First Historical and Archaeological Discourse on the Culture of the Volga Bulgars

46

Theoretical and Methodological Problems of History

Repina L.P. Science and Society: Public History in the Context of Historical Culture of the Globalization Era

55

Leontieva O.B.  The Crisis in Russian Historical Studies at the Turn of the 19th–20th Centuries and Its Understanding in Contemporary Historiography

68

Mustafin A.R. “Russian Cyclism” and N.D. Kondratiev's Scientific Concept

76

Ahmadiev F.N., Chiglintsev E.A. V.P. Buzeskul: Russian Patriot's Judgment about Nationalism in the German Classical Scholarship

82

Abilova R.O.  Problems in the Study of Documentary Photographs as the Object of Archival Science in Russian Historiography (over the Period of 2000s)

89

Ashaeva A.V. Gender and Colonial Practices of the Reception of Antiquity in Historiography

98

Unusova M.G. Graeco-Roman Mythology and “Political-Instrumental Myth” Concept

106

World History

Balakhvantsev A.S. Two Antique Traditions on the Early History of Parthia

114

Kilyashova K.A. Queen Eurydice: On the Question of the Political Role of Women in Ancient Macedonia

123

Shmeleva L.M.  Foedus Cassianum and the Position of the Roman Republic in Italy at the Beginning of the 5th Century BC

131

Griger M.V. Witnesses of Judaism in the 3rd Century (Fresco Painting Cycle of the Dura-Europos Synagogue)

141

Mekhamadiev E.A. The Ecclesiastical History of Gelasius of Cyzicus and the Campaign of Constantine the Great against Maxentius in 312 A.D.: on the Establishment of Late Roman Military Rank auxilia palatina

152

Devyataykina N.I. Music and Singing as the Subject of Petrarch's Dialogue and Pinitian's Epigraph

164

Kotliarov P.N. Liberali Eruditione and the Aristotelian Heritage: Philip Melanchthon's Projects of the Reform in Wittenberg University

172

Shmelev D.V. French Christian Democracy in the 1960s: Problems of Transformation

182

Mullayanov A.Sh. The European Union and Regional Actors in the Case of Cyprus: Theoretic-Political Appraisal

193

Russian History

Puzanov D.V. Solar and Lunar Halos in the Sacral Image of the Universe by the Eastern Slavs during the 11th–13th Centuries

201

Khairetdinov D.Z. Turkic-Muslim Influence on the Territory of Nizhny Novgorod Region during the Era of the Golden Horde

211

Ozova F.A. The Institution of Amanats in the Caucasian Policy of Peter I

220

Ishakov R.R.  Family Relations and Family Law of the Kryashens (Christian Tatars) in the Volga-Ural Region during the 19th and Early 20th Century

230

Ivanova T.N. The Role of Kazan University in the Formation of the Educational Space of Chuvashia: Three Portraits

240

Mazhitova Zh.S. The Modern Historiography of Russia and Kazakhstan on the Functions of Biys in the Kazakh Society

254

Martynov D.E., Martynova Yu.A. N.F. Katanov's Diaries as a Source on the Socio-Economic Situation in Xinjiang during the 1890s

262