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A Perception of the Imperial Order by a Russian Élite Woman in the 19th Century Caucasus: A Concise Analysis on Propaganda Authored by Vera Zhelikhovskaia on the Russo-Ottoman War, 1877-1878

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A Perception of the Imperial Order by a Russian Élite Woman in the 19th Century Caucasus: A Concise Analysis on Propaganda Authored by Vera Zhelikhovskaia on the Russo-Ottoman War, 1877-1878

Abstract

In the history of the Russian Empire, women played various roles. Along with Turkish historiography on Turkic Muslim women, current studies on the Russian Empire as a multi-ethnic, multi-religious polity and current studies on Russian women’s and gender history are unified from the 2010s, after the multi-ethnic/multi-religious nature of the Russia Empire became the theory based on more lucid legal/administrative regulations. The newly unified current indicates the imperialistic practices of Russian Women and the gendered nature of the Russian Empire. This article, to contribute to the new current, examines propaganda, Naşi Voinı Pravoslavnıe (Our Orthodox Soldiers), by one of the famous female authors, Vera Zhelikhovskaia (Jelihovskaya), who had lived in the Caucasus for several decades, not à priori but critically considering the social meaning of “femininity”. By intersectional analyses of gender-ethnicity-denomination-subjecthood, this article attempts to elucidate how a Russian woman recognised and represented the polity of Russia and various people in Russia during the Russo-Ottoman War, 1877-1878. The hierarchy, in which Russian men are on the top, Russian women submitting to and caring for Russian men come after, non-Russian/Orthodox subjects are the second-class compatriots, and the “Turks” are completely disdained and excluded, finally almost without any non-Russian/Orthodox women.

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I would like to thank Ekaterina Gutova, Project Lecturer at the University of Tokyo, for verifying the accuracy of the author's comprehension of the Russian text in the primary source.

Kaynakça

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Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Cinsiyet Sosyolojisi , Tarihsel Çalışmalar (Diğer)

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

10 Ocak 2025

Kabul Tarihi

6 Şubat 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 12 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

APA
Sano, M.- akiyo. (2025). A Perception of the Imperial Order by a Russian Élite Woman in the 19th Century Caucasus: A Concise Analysis on Propaganda Authored by Vera Zhelikhovskaia on the Russo-Ottoman War, 1877-1878. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 12(1), 13-30. https://doi.org/10.34086/rteusbe.1614111

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