Authors
- Medovarov Maxim V. Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Annotation
In the field of investigating English-Russian relations and Russian ideas about Great Britain, the attitude of Russian society of the late nineteenth century to William Ewart
Gladstone, who enjoyed a reputation as an ally of Russia, remains insufficiently studied. The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the attitude of the conservative journal “Russkoe Obozrenie” (“Russian Review”) to Gladstone in 1890–1898. The uniqueness of the situation was that the information campaign to create a positive image of the “great elder” as an ideal Christian, theologian, philologist and politician was organized by people who closely collaborated with him namely with Olga Novikova and William Stead. To varying degrees, other journalists and three editors of the “Russkoe Obozrenie” (Prince Dmitry Tsertelev, Nikolai Boborykin, Anatoly Alexandrov) joined it. The Russian reading public became acquainted with Gladstone’s biography, the characteristics of his family members, the peculiarities of his rhetoric and views on all aspects of life. The reforms in Ireland and its desire for Home Rule evoked particular sympathy among Russian conservatives. The journal’s interest in Gladstone’s activities sometimes grew (up to the publication of three transcripts of his speeches), sometimes almost disappeared for a time (in late 1891 – first half of 1892, as well as 1894–1897), but overall, over the course of eight years, the “Russkoe Obozrenie” created a complete image of the “Great Old Man” as an ally of Russia, the liberator of friendly Ireland, and a defender of Christianity from hostile principles on the right and left.
How to link insert
Medovarov, M. V. (2025). WILLIAM GLADSTONE AS A POLITICIAN AND A PERSON IN THE COVERAGE OF THE “RUSSKOE OBOZRENIE” JOURNAL Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", № 3 (59), 169. https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-9105-2025-359-169-183
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