Unsuccessful Peace-making: the Mission of Francesco da Collo and Antonio de Conti to Moscow (1518-1519) by O. F. Kudriavtsev

“…This article explores the peace mission of Francesco da Collo and Antonio de Conti, envoys of Emperor Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire, to Grand Prince Vasily III of Moscow in 1518–1519. …”
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Memory of Persian campaign of Peter the Great in modern Iran by M. A. Podrezov

“…Such “oblivion” of the main event in Peter’s of the first Russian emperor related to Iran does not stem from the degree of attention to his personality in Iran. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…Hoyer portraits Wilhelm II as a young, ambitious, brave and visionary Emperor, unlike his grandfather’s, more modest and humbler demeanor. …”
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The impact of the technical characteristics of motor vehicles on the efficiency of the company by O.V. Garmash, S.V. Bogdanovich, G.V. Muratbekova, L.M. Malikova

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Functional morphology of digestive organs of newborn calves and pathogenesis of escherichiosis by S. M. Suleymanov

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NGUYEN DU’S PERCEPTION ABOUT CHINA UNDER THE QING DYNASTY THROUGH BAC HANH TAP LUC by Lê Quang Trường

“…His “trivial notes” revealed his complicated thinking and feelings about the Chinese landscape, people and culture under the rule of the Jiaqing emperor. This article analyzes Nguyen Du’s rational and emotional perceptions of China, especially Chinese culture as implied in “Bac hanh tap luc”, to better understand a case of direct interaction of a Vietnamese Confucian scholar with imperial China.…”
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A brief history of formation of the kalmyk collection in the oriental section of the saint petersburg university scientific library by Vladimir L. Uspensky

“…Vasiliev belonged to the seventeenth son of the Kangxi Emperor (reigned 1661–1722) Yunli (1697–1738) and are mostly unique or very rare. …”
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IN THE WAKE OF PUGACHEV’S REBELLION: EXPERIENCE IN ORAL HISTORY by N. V. Shevtsov

“…From the beginning, the uprising was of antimonarchic, not noble character, although its leader, and posed as a resurrected Emperor Peter III. During two years since 1773 the rebels were holding at bay the entire Russian Empire, becoming a real threat to the power of Catherine II. …”
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Blood transcriptome resources of chinstrap () and gentoo () penguins from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica by Bo-Mi Kim, Jihye Jeong, Euna Jo, Do-Hwan Ahn, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Jae-Sung Rhee, Hyun Park

“…Ortholog comparisons with previously published transcriptomes from the Adélie (P. adeliae) and emperor (Aptenodytes forsteri) penguins revealed that a high proportion of the four penguins’ transcriptomes had significant sequence homology. …”
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Russia of PeterI: Gaining Great Power Status by P. A. Krotov

“…The tsar gradually prepared the conditions for the proclama- tion of Russia as an empire and himself as an emperor. Arguably, the recognition of the title by the European states cannot be the main criterion for determining the time of Russia's transformation into a great power because recognizing the imperial title dragged on for sev- eral decades. …”
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Provincial Administration and Local Nobility in Courland in the Middle of the 19th Century by N. A. Mogilevskii

“…Suvorov, Interior Minister S.S. Lanskoy and Emperor Alexander II himself were involved in the clash. …”
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Study of stress-strain state of wheelset of freight car during braking by А. А. Krutko, D. A. Sedykh, А. А. Vorobev, A. R. Putintseva, Yu. O. Filippov

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“The Founder and Father of his Empire”: Voltaire on the Peace of Nystad and the Imperial Status of Russia by S. A. Mezin

“…This point of view is shared by many contemporary historians. Peter I’s declaring Emperor was the direct consequence of victorious end of the Northern War. …”
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"Russiana gloriatur ecclesia" and the issue of St. Bruno's of Querfurt missions by Marius Ščavinskas

“…The greatest attention is focused on the letter to the king of Germany Henry II (the future emperor), written by St. Bruno himself and to the insert, written by Peter Damian, describing the martyrdom of St. …”
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An outline of typology of social relations in the countries of Byzantine civilization in the VII-XIV Centuries by Nerijus Babinskas

“…The ruler of Russia was even more autocratic than the Byzantine emperor. The countries of Southeastern Europe adopted the political as well as the sociocultural structure of the Byzantine Empire: the state was centralized, the church was subordinated to the state, the aristocracy did not rely on private property but on state distribution or redistribution, etc. …”
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L’aqueduc du Gier : nouvelles données sur le pont-siphon de Beaunant à Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (Métropole de Lyon) by David Baldassari, François Blondel, Stéphane Gaillot

“…Dendrochronological analyses revealed that the trees from which the planks were taken were felled in 110 AD, indicating that the construction of the Gier aqueduct took place early in the 2nd century AD at the end of the reign of Emperor Trajan. The excavation also revealed the presence of a large opus caementicium base between piers 18 and 19. …”
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La datation des aqueducs lyonnais : un état des lieux by Aldo Borlenghi, Catherine Coquidé

“…This study picks up and analyses all the arguments used to support one or the other of these dates: the link between the remains of the hill’s water supply network under Augustus and the altitude of arrival of the aqueduct; pipes stamped with the TI · CL · CAES · brand found in the 18th century on Colline de Fourvière; the aqueduct’s protective boundary stones bearing the name of Emperor Hadrian; the attested stamps on the bipedal bricks of the arch and bridge piers; the opus reticulatum mixtum construction technique; the fountain at the enclosure of the fountain at the Verbe Incarné enclos and its water supply; radiocarbon and archaeomagnetic dating. …”
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“Restoration of the Past Scenery-Realm”: A Research on the Scenery-Realm Restoration of Jiang’s Fu Garden During Qing Dynasty in the Historical Revolution of the Humble Administrat... by Qian BIAN

“…ObjectiveThe Humble Administrator’s Garden in Suzhou, initially constructed during the reign of Emperor Zhengde in Ming Dynasty, has undergone a series of transformations and periods of decline and revival. …”
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Dramatic and Cinematic Potentials of the Fifth Dome in Nizami's Haft Peykar by Heydar Ali Dahmarde, Hojat Raeisi

“…The first section encompasses the beginning and ending of the book, detailing the life of Bahram V, a Sassanid emperor, from his birth to his death. This part employs a historical narrative style. …”
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Le camp légionnaire romain de Mayence/Mogontiacum (Allemagne) : nouveaux résultats sur l’enceinte et la chronologie by Daniel Burger-Völlmecke

“…This radical new alignment was likely connected with the restructuring of the Rhine frontier by Emperor Tiberius in AD 17, which also coincided with a renunciation of the hitherto offensive policy in Germania. …”
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