GERMAN CRAFT CULTURE IN SAINT PETERSBURG: CHARACTERISTICS OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

German Craft Culture in Saint Petersburg: Characteristics of Development in the First Half of the 19th Century

The handicraft industry remained an integral part of the mixed economy of the Russian Empire.Foreign artisans, primarily those of German descent, played a significant role in the capital cities from the 18th century onward.Most of these craftsmen relocated to Russia in response to an invitation from the Tsarist government.Around the turn of the 18t

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Genomic and Transcriptomic Approaches Provide a Predictive Framework for Sesquiterpenes Biosynthesis in Desarmillaria tabescens CPCC 401429

Terpenoids constitute a structurally diverse class of secondary metabolites with wide applications in the pharmaceutical, fragrance and flavor industries.Desarmillaria tabescens CPCC 401429 is a basidiomycetous mushroom that could produce anti-tumor melleolides.To date, no studies have been conducted to thoroughly investigate the sesquiterpenes bio

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Colonial museology and the Buddhist chronicles of Sri Lanka: agency and negotiation in the development of the palm-leaf manuscript collection at the Colombo Museum.

The roles of colonial museums in South Asia have been understood in terms of the dissemination of museology within the British Empire.This has often underplayed the participation Mobility of local intellectuals in the formation of museum collections, and thus has not recognized their agency in the creation of knowledge and of longstanding cultural

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