EMPSOLID - Empire of solidarities: a connected history of private charity across a decentred Romanov Empire, 1855–1914

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EMPSOLID seeks to redefine conventional centre-periphery approaches to studying empires by recovering horizontal threads connecting regions traditionally studied separately from one another. By analysing little-known cases of intra-imperial aid, the project investigates how solidarities were both shaped by, and could also overcome, confessional and ethnolinguistic differences. In doing so, the project contributes a long-overdue, decentring perspective to critical approaches to East European and Eurasian studies and imperial history, which has become especially urgent following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The project aspires to open and intensify cross-regional networks and partnerships between various sub-fields of scholars working on regional histories of the Romanov Empire (Baltic Studies, Ukrainian Studies, Caucasus Studies, Central Asian Studies) to generate new narratives about the empire’s history based on entanglements between its border regions. It approaches solidarity as not only a research topic, but also as a scholarly working practice through modelling new, collaborative ways of writing histories that transcend the traditional confines of national and regional borders.

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    Horizontal Threads: Towards an Entangled Spatial History of the Romanov Empire
    (Cambridge University Press, 2025-10-30) Gibson, Catherine; Kotenko, Anton
    This article outlines an emerging approach in the spatial history of the Romanov empire. Similar to other empires of the long nineteenth century, the Romanov empire has traditionally been understood as a spoked wheel, whose vertical axes of power and lines of communication flowed between the metropolitan “core” and the “peripheries.” We argue for the need to move beyond this well-worn image of the empire as a vertical structure of “center-periphery” relations. Instead, we consider the heuristic potential of studying horizontal “periphery-periphery” entanglements interconnecting this state, following threads which were not necessarily woven through the metropole. The argument is illustrated through a discussion of several examples from the Baltic and southwestern provinces, which highlight both the challenges and potentials of intra-imperial entangled history.