The article is devoted to the analysis of conspiratorial activity of the Decembrist M.P.Bestuzhev-Rjumin. The author describes the moment when the Decembrist joined the conspiracy, his relations with the main members of the Southern Society. In the opinion of A.H.Benckendorff, an investigator in the Decembrists' case, the young revolutionary was “the demon of propaganda”. The author believes that this characterization is correct. The article refers to the negotiations of Bestuzhev-Rumin with the Polish Patriotic Society and the Society of United Slavs.

The article deals with the situation of intercultural interaction, which is defined through the need of world development to gather into a single humanity not by joining in one cultural tradition, but in recognition of the unity of different traditions, which, as it turns out, need each other on the principle of complementarity. This is how two great writers, Victor Hugo with his novel Les Misérables and the great Russian writer F.M. Dostoyevsky, who liked the novel that expressed the national spirit of France, but touched Dostoyevsky with the theme of the "restoration" of human dignity – not only in the strictly legal (formal) plane, but also through the realization that any formal law always needs also justice of moral order.

The article is devoted to the intellectual search of Russian conservatives in the late 1870s – early 1880s. It is about the understanding the nature of the political crisis at the end of the reign of Alexander II, as well as the prospects for overcoming it. In essence, this refers to the folding system of ideas that formed the intellectual basis of the government policy of the times of Alexander III. Disputes continue in historiography whether the transformations carried out in those years can be interpreted as counter-reforms. The author disputes this point of view. If we keep in mind the goal-setting of the authors of that time, their mood, then it would be more accurate to talk about the ideology of counter-revolution, which was shared by many representatives of bureaucratic spheres.

The study of the documents of the orderly hut of the city of Koroch of the Belgorod zasechnaya line (about 300 certificates and unsubscriptions of the voivodes) allows us to draw a number of conclusions: 1) the Moscow government carried out close cooperation with local rulers; 2) the letters regulated the activity of the voivodes, depriving them of full independence in decision-making; 3) the letters of the second half of the XVII century threaten the voivodes with severe punishments for non-compliance with the instructions of the center; 4) in the second half of the XVII century. service discipline in the field noticeably weakened, which was a consequence of the difficult situation that developed in the ruling circles after the death of Alexei Mikhailovich. However, this was not the basis for the destruction of the organization of the command management system.

By the middle of the XIX century, the culture of teaching salon (ballroom) dance in Russia had reached a high level of development. There was a real system of dance training, in which the teacher played a key role. His functions included not only the duty to learn dance moves, but also to educate students in the rules of etiquette inherent in secular society. “Dancing” was taught to young children at home, in primary, secondary and higher educational institutions according to programs adopted by the Ministry of Public Education. Young people and adults were trained in fashionable novelties in dance classes opened by professional dancers.

The focus of these essays-memoirs are three extraordinary personalities with whom fate brought the author together during his work as a teacher at the Crimean Pedagogical Institute. The second essay deals with the joint creative work of the author of the essay with V.M.Cherny over the theme of the revolutionary, writer and orientalist Oscar Tarkhanov and over historical short stories (the book “With the Stamp of Yalta”). The second essay is dedicated to the poet M.L.Grunin, head of the youth literary association at the Crimean organization of the Writers' Union. The character of the third essay is a talented teacher S.F.Sklyarenko. His letters from Sevastopol testify to the rejection by the disabled and war veteran of the nationalist policies of the Ukrainian ruling elite

The article is devoted to the social and political activities of one of the North Caucasian leaders of the early twentieth century Z. Shamil, the grandson of Imam Shamil, previously unknown facts from his biography in the conditions of the Russian revolution and civil war of 1917–1920 are given

The quick development of deliberative democracy led to the formation of numerous state-public institutions. Such institutions are public councils under state authorities and digital participation platforms. Democracy and digital technologies have increasingly begun to push out outdated civil and public institutions and promote the emergence of new ones based on electronic participation (participation). The author believes that the outgoing institutions of power have not been replaced by others. Public councils and electronic participatory platforms have not become engines of social development. The reason for this, according to the author, is due to the fact that these institutions are focused exclusively on the activities of public authorities