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The Influence of the Steppe on Russian Culture

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Published: 19 December 2009

Last Updated: 31 December 2019

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This article is written in Danish language. It deals on the Russian's contacts to the peoples of the Steppe and on how these interactions had influence on Russian culture, society and political system. The main focus is on the abstract subject of the antithesis between the steppe and the woods in its cultural and historical dimension, and on the specific issue of Russia under Mongol rule, its reception history and its contemporary estimation among historians.

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CyrAcademisator

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Published: 02 December 2009

Last Updated: 03 May 2015

CyrAcademisator is a transliteration tool for Russian texts.

CyrAcademisator was made especially for academic use at universities and for research purposes. It makes possible a fast conversion of Russian texts to established scientific transliteration styles. A conversion back to Cyrillic is possible, as it is possible to convert from one transliteration to another. Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian characters are recognized and can be entered into the text field with a provided virtual Russian keyboard. Due to missing standardisations of some older characters in most of the transliteration styles, CyrAcademisator provides an individual report with information on possible misconversions and their reasons.

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Browser Plugins for Russian

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Published: 15 October 2009

Last Updated: 05 January 2013

Besides the add-ons Zotero and LibX I would like to recommend some plugins for the browser search bar.

On the web site Mycroft Project - Search Engine Plugins - Dictionaries you can choose from 30 plugins which are relevant for Russian language.

The site offers plugins for corpora, script converters, monolingual and multilingual dictionaries.

Ottenser Industriebahn

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Published: 29 April 2009

Last Updated: 19 September 2019

Im Oktober 1992 habe ich Reste der Ottenser Industriebahn fotografisch dokumentiert. Vieles ist inzwischen nicht mehr vorhanden. Die Bilder können auf "Beiträge zur Altonaer Geschichte" (BzAG) angeschaut werden.

Prosa deutsch/russisch

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Published: 04 January 2008

Last Updated: 22 June 2013

Folgende drei Romane von Alexander Puschkin sowie die Erzählung "Schuld und Sühne" von Fjodor Dostojewskij habe ich zu deutsch-russischen Paralleltexten aufgearbeitet. Sie stehen hier zum freien Download als PDF:

Der Schuß / Выстрел

Der Stationsaufseher / Станционный смотритель

Der Schneesturm / Метель

Dostoevskij, Fëdor Michajlovič - Verbrechen und Strafe / Достоевский Ф.М. - Преступление и наказание