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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">history</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Вестник РГГУ. Серия: Литературоведение. Языкознание. Культурология</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2073-6355</issn><publisher><publisher-name>RSUH</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.28995/2686-7249-2020-10-41-58</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">history-849</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>«Известная должность»: жизнь и «служба» фаворита при дворе Екатерины II в конце XVIII в.</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>“Notorious position”: life and “service” of the favorite at the court of Catherine II in the late 18th century</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Курукин</surname><given-names>И. В.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kurukin</surname><given-names>I. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"/><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Igor’ V. Kurukin, Dr. of Sci. (Нistory), associate professor</p><p>bld. 6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, Russia, 125993</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">kurukin@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Российский государственный гуманитарный университет</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Russian State University for the Humanities</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2020</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>23</day><month>11</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>0</volume><issue>10</issue><fpage>41</fpage><lpage>58</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Курукин И.В., 2020</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Курукин И.В.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kurukin I.V.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://history.rsuh.ru/jour/article/view/849">https://history.rsuh.ru/jour/article/view/849</self-uri><abstract><p>В данном сообщении предпринята попытка рассмотреть повседневную деятельность последнего фаворита Екатерины II П.А. Зубова. Комплекс опубликованных источников (писем императрицы, камерфурьерских журналов и мемуаров современников) и архивных материалов из фондов РГАДА и РГИА позволяет охарактеризовать как обязанности Зубова при дворе в качестве генерал-адъютанта и одного из ближайших к императрице лиц, так и его неформальные занятия. Последние же были связаны прежде всего не с его официальными должностями, а с ролью влиятельного посредника, канала неофициального общения подданных с верховной властью. Однако эта же деятельность не превращала фаворита в правителя, а, скорее наоборот, делала его исполнительным чиновником в рамках уже существующего механизма канцелярии статс-секретарей.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This report attempts to examine the daily activities of the last favorite of Catherine II, P.A. Zubov. The complex of published sources (letters of the Empress, chamber-Fourier journals and memoirs of contemporaries) and archival materials from the funds of the RGADA and RGIA (RSHA) allows us to characterize both Zubov’s duties at court as an adjutant General and one of the closest persons to the Empress, as well as his informal activities. The latter were connected primarily not with his official positions, but with the role of an influential intermediary, a channel of unofficial communication between subjects and the Supreme power. However, the same activity did not turn the favorite into a ruler, but rather, on the contrary, made him an Executive official within the existing mechanism of the office of state secretaries.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>императорский двор</kwd><kwd>фаворит</kwd><kwd>Екатерина II</kwd><kwd>П.А. Зубов</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Imperial court</kwd><kwd>favorite</kwd><kwd>Catherine II</kwd><kwd>P.A. Zubov</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title></ref-list><fn-group><fn fn-type="conflict"><p>The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest present.</p></fn></fn-group></back></article>
