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<\/a>Dr. Svetlana Paulson<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cWorking on projects like this is truly exciting, although it requires extensive research in the manuscript collections both in Russia and the U.S,\u201d said Dr. Paulson. \u201cCOVID delayed my research trips to manuscript collections held in North Carolina and Washington, D.C. I am looking forward to the re-opening of these libraries, and I am very grateful for the SAU support and research grant that will make trips there possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her article analyzes what it was like for American citizens to be urban spectators in Imperial Russia, a topic insufficiently examined by historians. \u201cI wanted to explore what was unusual about that and how their observations and recollections differed from those of the locals,\u201d Dr. Paulson said.<\/p>\n
Inspired by memoirs and diaries written by diplomats, Dr. Paulson began researching the daily experiences and observations documented by U.S. diplomats living and working in Russia. \u201cSuch seemingly trifling details constitute a valuable source that helps reconstruct a full picture representing the places where U.S. diplomats were stationed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
A famous Arkansas politician, Clifton R. Breckenridge, served as ambassador to St. Petersburg in the 1890s. \u201cThe amount of detail about daily life in the Russian capital in the memoirs of the Breckenridge family astounded me, and my research resulted in two publications analyzing their stories,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Reading more memoirs and diaries led her to realize that some aspects of diplomats\u2019 lives in Russia had never been examined, inspiring her to write an earlier article analyzing the challenges that American parents faced in the capital of the tsars.<\/p>\n
Dr. Paulson expressed her appreciation to Donna McCloy, assistant librarian for reference, who helped obtain rare Russian books via interlibrary loan. Her article may be viewed at\u00a0Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021) | Journal of Russian American Studies (ku.edu)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Southern Arkansas University history professor Dr. Svetlana Paulson recently published her article, \u201cFace to Face with the Tsars\u2019 Capital: American Diplomats and Urban Spectatorship in Imperial St. Petersburg,\u201d in the prestigious\u00a0Journal of Russian-American Studies. The article is based on Dr. Paulson\u2019s extensive research in American and Russian archives. A research grant sponsored her travels through… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":8712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[271,207,156,7753],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-college-of-liberal-performing-arts","9":"category-history-political-science-geography","10":"category-homepage","11":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}