WORLD WAR I IN THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF RUSSIA AND EUROPE

Programme

International Conference

25—26 October, 2013

Kaliningrad / Gusev

24 October, 2013

ACCOMMODATION OF PARTICIPANTS IN HOTELS “TOURIST”, “KALININGRAD”, “OLD KOENIGSBERG”

19:00 – 21:00 Cathedral ORGAN CONCERT FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Kant Island

25 October, 2013

09:30 – 10:00 CONFERENCE OPENING CEREMONY

Conference Hall IKBFU PROF. ANDREY P. KLEMESHEV 2 Universitetskaya STR. Rector, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

WELCOMING SPEECHES

NIKOLAY N. TSUKANOV GOVERNOR OF THE KALININGRAD REGION

STANISLAV S. VOSKRESENSKIY Deputy Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation

PANEL DISCUSSION 10:00 – 11:20 10:00 – 10:20 PROF. EUGENY YU. SERGEEV Conference Hall Chief Researcher, Institute of World History RAS (Moscow), President of the IKBFU WWI Historical Association 2 Universitetskaya STR. Challenges and Perspectives of WWI Studies

Simultaneous Interpreting 10:20 – 10:40 PROF. VIKTOR V. SERGEEV Head of the Department of History, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad) Debating Points of the WWI History: Historiographical Aspect

10:40 – 11:00 ZORAN STOJKOVIĆ Defense Attaché of the Republic of Serbia in the Russian Federation, colonel Serbia in the

11:00 – 11:20 PROF. MICHAŁ GLOСK Nicolaus Copernicus University (Torun, Poland)

World War I in Polish Historiography

11:20 – 11:40 COFFEE-BREAK

PANEL DISCUSSION 11:40 – 12:50 11:40 – 12:00 DR. DENIS YU. KOZLOV Conference Hall Deputy Head of the Research Institute of War History, Military Academy of the IKBFU General Staff of Russian Armed Forces (Moscow) 2 Universitetskaya STR. Baltic Battles in 1914: Plans and Reality

Simultaneous Interpreting 12:00 – 12:20 PROF. IGOR N. GREBENKIN Ryazan State University named for S. A. Esenin Officer Corps of War Time: Social Phenomenon

12:20 – 12:40 PROF. IRINA N. NOVIKOVA Dean of the Faculty for International Relations, Saint-Petersburg State University Neutrality or Alliance: Political In-fighting in Sweden related to External Policy during World War I

12:40 – 12:50 PRESENTATION OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY Konstantin A. Pakhalyuk, Senior Specialist of the Research Division, RMHS

12:50 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

SESSION 1 14:30 – 18:00

Exhibition Hall MILITARY OPERATIONS AT THE EASTERN FRONT (WESTERN FRONT IN RUSSIA) IN 1914—1915 Kaliningrad Regional Museum of MODERATORS: History and Art PROF. GENNADY V. KRETININ IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY 21 Klinicheskaya STR. ALEXANDER V. KHRAMOY DEPUTY DIRECTOR, NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS Coffee Break:

16:30 – 16:45 Opening of the Exhibition devoted to WWI

Timing: 1. Prof. Yury A. Zubritsky (N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy, Saint-Petersburg). Presentation — 15 min Cooperation between Army and Fleet at the Preparatory Stage of the WWI Report — 10 min 2. Prof. Eugeny F. Podsoblyaev (Baltic State Technical University "Voenmeh" D.F. Ustinov, Saint-Petersburg). Development of the Theory of Mass Strategy at the Eve and during WWI

3. Oleg E. Alpeev (Chief Researcher, Military Academy of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces (Moscow). in Strategic Plans of Russia and Germany at the end of the XIXth — beginning of ХХth century

4. Dr. Sergey G. Nelipovich (Head of the Achieves Division, Balashikha District Administration, Moscow). Losses of Parties in East Prussia (1914—1915)

5. Prof. Gennady V. Kretinin (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad). Kaliningrad Regional Studies: Genesis of Knowledge concerning East Prussian Offensive 1914

6. Dr. Oleg V. Chistyakov (Head of the Research Division, Russian State Military Historical Archive, Moscow). Documents (stored in the Russian State Military Historical Archive) concerning Death of the 13th and 15th Army Corps in East Prussia in

7. Dr. Olga A. Khoroshilova (Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology and Design). 8th Finnish Rifle Regiment in the Battles in East Prussia, August 1914 — January 1915

8. Oleg N. Puhlyak (Chairman, Member Board, Riga Slavic Historic Society, Latvia). Military Operations in Kurlandia, Spring — Summer 1915

9. Prof. Eugeny N. Rukavishnikov (Baltic Higher Naval Institute named after Admiral FF Ushakov, Kaliningrad). Mine Warfare at the Baltic Sea Coast of Germany at the end of 1914 — beginning of 1915

10. Andrzej Klos (Researcher at the Warmia and Mazury Museum in Olsztyn, Poland). Finding Items of Weaponry and Ammunition on the Place of the Tannenberg Battle: Study and Systematization

11. Alexander V. Khramoy (Deputy Director, National History Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk). The Grodno Fortress in the Defense System of the North-Western Front in 1914 — February 1915

12. Artem Yu. Savinov (Chief Researcher, Central Armed Forces Museum of the Russian Federation, Moscow). Battle of Moon Sound. Newly Discovered Documents and Perspective Approaches

14:30 – 18:00 SESSION 2 Room. 130/4 IKBFU DIPLOMATIC, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC 2 Universitetskaya STR. ASPECTS OF THE WWI HISTORY

Coffee Break: MODERATORS 16:30 – 16:45 PROF. VALERY I. GALTSOV Timing: DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES Presentation — 15 min IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY Report — 10 min PROF. IRINA N. NOVIKOVA DEAN OF THE FACULTY FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY

1. Prof. Viktor A. Zubachevsky (Omsk State Pedagogical University). Polish Question in WWI Diplomacies of Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary

2. Prof. Rustem A. Tsiunchuk (Kazan Federal University, Kazan). National Question in the at the Eve and during WWI (Polish and German Delegates in the State Duma: “Allies” or “Aliens”)

3. Viktor V. Bezzub (PhD student, Institute of World History, RAS, Moscow). Conceptual Foundations of British Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the WWI

4. Prof. Rafael Muksinov (Member of the World Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots, Vilnius, Lithuania). Humanitarian Law and WWI

5. Dmitry V. Mankevich (Senior lecturer, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad). WWI and the Population of Russia (Demographic Aspect)

6. Prof. Yury V. Kostyashov (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad). Economic Relations between East Prussia and Russia before and after WWI: Changing Cooperation Patterns?

7. Dr. Alexander S. Novikov (Specialist, Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art). Gumbinnen Government Region in the Province of East Prussia of 1914—1915

8. Prof. Tatyana I. Troshina (Associate professor, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Arkhangelsk). “It would more pedagogically correct to shoot down…”: Escalation of Violence during the WWI

9. Prof. Sergey N. Bazanov (Senior research fellow, Institute of Russian History, RAS, Moscow). The Phenomenon of Fraternization on the Russian Front

10. Prof. Arūne Arbušauskaitė (Senior research fellow, Institute of Baltic Sea Region History and Archaeology, Klaipeda University, Lithuania). East Prussian "Civil War Prisoners" in Russia in 1914—1915 and 1918—1919.

11. Prof. Vida Kniūraitė (Associate professor, Lithuanian Educological University, Vilnius, Lithuania). Lithuanian Agriculture under German Occupation

14:30 – 18:00 SESSION 3

Conference Hall ISTORY OF IKBFU H WWI: 2 Universitetskaya STR. HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCE STUDIES Simultaneous Interpreting MODERATORS Coffee Break: PROF. LUBOV N. ZHVANKO 16:30 – 16:45 PROFESSOR, O. M. BEKETOV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF URBAN ECONOMY IN KHARKIV PROF. VIKTOR V. SERGEEV Timing: DEPUTY HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, IKBFU Presentation — 15 min.

Report — 10 min. 1. Prof. Lubov N. Zhvanko (O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Ukraine). Refugees during WWI in the Russian Empire: Historiographical Aspect

2. Sebastian Mierzyński (Research fellow, Science Museum of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland). in Polish Historiography

3. Alexander D. Chumakov (Associate professor, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad). Reflection of the WWI Events in the Academic "History of Belarus"

4. Dr. Ilya O. Dementev (Associate professor, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad) “The Cossacks are not leaving.” Modern Western Historiography of the Russian Occupation of East Prussia during WWI

5. Dr. Igor V. Karpeev (Senior specialist, Russian State Military Historical Archive, Moscow). East Prussian Operation in 1915 Reflected by the Russian Media

6. Dr. Leontiy V. Lannik (Associate professor, Saratov State Academy of Law). German Regimental Stories: Tannenberg through the Eyes of its Veterans

7. Dr. Lada V. Mitroshenkova (Deputy director, Museum-Panorama “The Battle of Borodino”, Moscow). Episodes of the Battlefield Life during summer 1916 — spring 1917 in the Memoirs of A.P. Vorontsov-Velyaminov (Lieutenant, Life-Guard of the Combat Engineer Regiment, 1920–1940)

8. Dr. Kirill M. Alexandrov (Senior research fellow, Institute of Philological Studies, Saint-Petersburg State University). Life-Guards 1st His Majesty's Rifle Regiment: Materials related to Biographies of Officers — Veterans of the Great War (following the Collection of O.I. Pantyukhov, Life Guards Colonel, provided by the Hoover Archives in the U.S.)

9. Sergey R. Matveev (PhD student, Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Moscow). WWI in the Academic Memory (according to the Journal of Social History, 1994—2013)

10. Andreas Mix (Research fellow, German Historical Museum, , Germany). "1914-1918. World War I": New Exhibition of the German Historical Museum

14:30 – 18:00 SESSION 4 University Museum IKBFU IMAGES OF WWI IN LITERATURE AND ART 2 Universitetskaya STR.

MODERATORS: Coffee-Break: PROF. IRINA V. KUPTSOVA 16:30 – 16:45 PROFESSOR, M.V. LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY PROF. LEONID A. MALTSEV Timing: PROFESSOR, IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY Presentation — 15 min.

Report — 10 min. 1. Prof. Irina V. Kuptsova (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University). WWI and Evolution of Pop Art in Russia

2. Dr. Lada V. Syrovatko (teacher of Lyceum 49, Kaliningrad). “Trench truth” of WWI through Poets-witnesses’ Eyes

3. Dr. Pavel E. Fokin (Deputy director of State Literature Museum, Moscow). WWI: Unnecessary Experience. Glance at the Russian Literature of the 20th century.

4. Prof. Leonid A. Maltsev (IKBFU, Kaliningrad). 1914 in Ivo Andrić’s Interpretation

5. Dr. Aleksey S. Shepel (Teacher of the school in Morozova settlement, Saint- Petersburg). “14th of August”. A. Solzhenitsyn’s Work with Military History Materials on the Russian Invasion of East Prussia (1914)

6. Prof. Marya A. Dmitrovskaya (IKBFU, Kaliningrad). Guerre e(s)t paix! (Casus belli and Bella’s Caucasus in Nikolay Kononov’s Novel “Flaneur”)

7. Maryana S. Baydak (Master’s student, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine). Women’s Images of WWI in Literature and Art (Case of East Galicia)

8. Dr. Varvara E. Dobrovolskaya (Head of folklore and ethnography department of the State Republican Centre of Russian Folklore, Moscow). WWI in the Folklore Prose of the Central Russia

9. Anna A. Lebedkina (Teacher of Gymnasium №40, Kaliningrad). WWI Phenomenon in School Literature

10. Dmitry B. Sukhin (Architect, Chairman in “Kamsvikus settlement”, Rotterdam, Netherlands). War as Culture Bearer

26 October, 2013

08:30 – 08:50 DEPARTURE OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS FROM KALININGRAD 08:30 — HOTEL “TURIST”, “OLD KOENIGSBERG” 08:50 — HOTEL “KALININGRAD”

10:50 – 11:30 CITY TOUR ROUND

12:00 – 12:30 COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONY AT THE MILITARY CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL IN THE HONOUR OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE BATTLE OF GUMBINNEN

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:00 CITY TOUR ROUND GUSEV

15:00 – 18:00 SESSION 5

Exhibition Hall WORLD WAR I IN THE CULTURAL MEMORY OF EUROPEAN PEOPLES A. M. Ivanov Local History Museum Gusev MODERATORS: 36 A Moskovskaya STR. PROF. ALGIS KASPERAVIČIUS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, VILNIUS UNIVERSITY Coffee-Break: DR. MARINA A. OBOLONKOVA 16:15 – 16:30 Head, Department of World History, Perm State Pedagogical University

1. Dr. Irina B. Belova (Associate professor, Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State University). Timing: Report — 15 min Revival of the Historical Memory of WWI: Plans and Problems

Presentation — 10 min 2. Herbert Schmidt (Director, German-Russian House, Leipzig, Germany). WWI and German-Russian Memory Culture: from Patriotic War of 1812 till the Great Patriotic War of 1941—1945

3. Prof. Werner Manfred Hellmund (German-Russian House, Leipzig, Germany). Russia and Germany: WWI – First Two Decades of the XX century

4. Dr. Yaroslav A. Golubinov (Senior lecturer, Samara State Medical University). “There is so much pain”: Perpetuation of Memory of the Great War in Great Britain (1914—1920)

5. Prof. Algis Povilas Kasperavičius (Associate professor, Vilnius University, Lithuania). WWI: Lithuanian Society and its Historical Memory

6. Prof. Tomas Balkelis (Senior research fellow, Faculty of History, Vilnius University, Lithuania). Exodus, Repatriation and Nation-Making: Population Displacement and its Memory in Lithuania, 1914—1921

7. Konstantin A. Pakhalyuk (Senior specialist, Research Sector, Russian Military History Society, Moscow). Image of WWI Heroes in Russia

8. Dr. Marina A. Obolonkova (Head, Department of World History, Perm State Pedagogical University). Frontline Christmas in 1914 in the Cultural Memory of Europeans

15:00 – 18:00 SESSION 6 Conference Hall PRESERVATION OF MEMORIES OF WWI Agricultural College Gusev AND MAINTENANCE OF THE WWI CEMETERIES AND MEMORIALS

3 Timiryazeva STR.

MODERATORS: Coffee-Break: 16:30 – 16:45 DR. IGOR I. ZHUKOVSKY VICE-RECTOR FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY Timing: EUGENY A. MASLOV Presentation — 15 min Report — 10 min DEPUTY HEAD (DIRECTOR), STATE PRESERVATION OFFICE FOR THE OBJECTS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE KALININGRAD REGION

1. Yuriyus Trakshyalis (Project manager, NGO "Institute of military heritage", Vilnius, Lithuania). Preservation of Memories of WWI in Lithuania

2. Alexander Rzhavin (board member, Russian Society in Latvia, Riga). Russian Military Memorials of Second Patriotic War on the territory of the Republic of Latvia

3. Piotr Janiszewski (Co-chair, Committee for Cultural Dialogue of Scientific Society named after W. Kętrzyński, Olsztyn, Poland). Perpetuation of the Memory of German Soldiers died during WWI: the Case of the Northern and Western Regions of Poland

4. Alexander S. Kazyonnov (Research fellow, Center for War Memorial Studies, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Gusev/Kaliningrad). WWI Cemeteries

and Memorials on the Territory of East Prussia

5. Dr. Mikhail B. Uryupin (Deputy Head, Branch of “Naval Academy”, Kaliningrad). Activities of the Baltic Institute of Naval Studies named after F. Ushakov aimed at Perpetuation of the Memory of Soldiers died on the Territory of the Kaliningrad region

6. Oksana N. Lenda (Project manager, Department for Strategic Development of GS Group, OJSC Concern "Innovative technologies", Saint-Petersburg). Experience of Private Initiative “Technopolis GS” on the Maintenance of WWI Memorials located in the Gusev District of the Kaliningrad Region

7. Nikolai V. Rodin (PhD student, Saint-Petersburg Institute of History, RAS). WWI Cemeteries and Memorials: Emergence, Loss and Conservation perspectives (the case of St. Petersburg and its surroundings)

15:00 – 18:00 SESSION 7

CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF WWI Conference Hall YOUTH ASSEMBLY A.M. Ivanov Local History Museum MODERATORS: Gusev NATALYA P. VILCHINSKAYA 36A Moskovskaya STR. PHD STUDENT, IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV SERGEY S. NIKITIN

PHD STUDENT, IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY Coffee-Break:

17:00 – 17:15 1. Igor K. Bogomolov (PhD student, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, RAS, Moscow). “Quiet Determination” vs. «Chauvinistic Frenzy»: Timing: Prewar Europe in Russian Media

Presentation — 12 min 2. Alexander O. Peganov (PhD student, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Report — 10 min Belarus; Associate researcher, Paris Diderot University, France). Strategic

Interests and Political Ambitions of Hungary during WWI

3. Nino R. Nadoeva (Master student, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg). French Military Mission as a Link between Diplomatic Relations

4. Anna Zglińska (PhD student, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland). The Border between Germany and Occupied Parts of the Former Congress Poland

5. Natalya P. Vilchinskaya (PhD student, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine). Militaristic Sentiments in East Galicia on the Eve of WWI (the Case of the Ukrainian Society “Sich” Activities)

6. Juris Vanags (student, Jūrmala, Latvia). Events of World War I on the Riga

Coast

7. Аrtem A. Stalkovskiy (Student, Tambov State Technical University). WWI in peasant’s interpretation

9. Sandra Gaučiūtė, Mamerta Ralytė (Students, Lithuanian Educological University, Vilnius, Lithuania). Lithuanian Male Gymnasium in Voronezh during WWI

10. Sergey S. Nikitin (PhD student, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad). Russian Army in WWI through T. Dupuy’s Analysis

11. Ivan A. Gubanov (Master student, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg). Popular Posters as a Source for Studying of a Visual Representation of an “Enemy” during WWI

12. Ekaterina V. Hudyakova (Laboratory researcher, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg). Influence of WWI on the Formation of a Modern Casual European Suit

13. Eugenia V. Putilova (Student, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg). WWI on the Pages of Russian History Books: Comparative Analysis

14. Maria O. Zhirova (Head, Youth Programme of the Regional NGO “Kaliningrad- Świnoujście-Olsztyn-Mrągowo”, Kaliningrad). Studies of Folk Patriotic Songs of WWI

18:00 – 18:30 TRANSFER OF THE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS TO CHERNYAKHOVSK

18:30 – 19:30 DINNER. CLOSING REMARKS

19:30 – 21:00 RETURN TO KALININGRAD

27 October, 2013

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