Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russian history

New article: List of Soviet tank factories

List of Soviet tank factories. —Michael Z. 2007-02-06 07:59 Z

Pages needing the most work

I thought that we should make a list of pages that need more work than others. What does anyone else think? Eurohistbuff 16:04, 8 March 2007

Categories

The existing categories used to tag Russian history content are a bit of a mess. I (MP) suggest we begin our work by simply collecting what's out there in Wikispace and tagging it with the "History of Russia" category. See task one below. That will give us a good impression of what sorts of category hierarchies (temporal, geographic, national) are currently being employed. Once we are done with that, we can rationalize existing categories, e.g.,

1. History of the East Slavs
   1. History of Russia
      1. East Slavic Migrations to Rus'
         1. (etc.)
      2. Kievan Rus'
         1. Foundation of Rus'

Category:History of Russia

History of the Soviet Union

Yikes! What the heck happened to History of the Soviet Union? Wikipedia does not have such a thing as "a single article consisting of four pages". I have eliminated the misleading and broken fake TOC on that article. I strongly suggest that someone move this one to History of the Soviet Union up to 1927 and rebuild an actual summary article about the entire history of the Soviet Union (covering at least the years 1922 to 1981). —Michael Z. 2007-07-21 19:16 Z

"Anglo-Russian" or "Russo-British"

I'm about to stub up the Convention of 1839, the Stikine dispute settlement and Alaska Panhandle lease by the HBC, and I'm uncertain as to whether there's a convention on British-Russian combination/hyphenized form; I tend to go with Russo-British but I've seen Anglo-Russian also; is there a preference? I've sween the Adams-Onis Treaty as the "Russo-American Treaty" also....

No answer, so I'm going to go with "Anglo-Russian" which is used in most sources I've seen so far.Skookum1 (talk) 15:52, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Governors of Russian America, bios needed

There is a listing of Governors of the Russian-American Company on the company page, with half a dozen or so in need of bio articles; my intention is to write more of a paragraph on the governors and migrate the list to its own list-page, and also to create a Category:Governors of Russian America category, but it would help to have the missing bios made, if someone here would care to indulge; also some of the existing articles, like Furuhjelm's, need references; even Russian-language ones would do. Thanks.Skookum1 (talk) 15:52, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

New Category:Russian America categories

Hi; please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Alaska#FYI_new_categories, though perhaps I should copy over that set of propossd categories here so as to not clutter up the WPAlaska talkpage/ or on Talk:Russian America maybe. Looking for feedback/ideas...Skookum1 (talk) 05:39, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Who was Governor General Hershelman?

I need some help digging up information about a "General Hershelman". Here's what I know so far: He seems to have been active in the Russo-Japanese War.[1] In 1908 he was a Governor General of Moscow.[2] In 1909 he was the "military commander of Vilna". He was famous for persecuting Jews and political dissidents (but who wasn't?). In 1909, a Russian Jewish anarchist named Moishe Tokar tried to assassinate him. That's all I can find—no first name, no dates of birth or death, etc. If anyone can find any useful information about this person, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 17:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't know anything about the guy, but could I suggest that you try the German form of the name, i.e. Herschelmann? Or even Gerschelmann, given the G/H switch common in Russianized names?Skookum1 (talk) 17:48, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Didn't find "Herschelmann", but I did find "Hirschelman", see Evan Hirschelman. Funny thing, in both cases it looks quite a bit like a Jewish name....or maybe I'm just thinking of the stereotypical personal name Herschel/Hirschel...??Skookum1 (talk) 17:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

That helps. I found this in Why Europe Leaves Home: "General Herschelmann, who was governor general of Moscow and later commander of the army in the Vilna district...". Still haven't found any other information about him though. If I could just find a first name, I would be satisfied :P Kaldari (talk) 22:52, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Found it: Sergei Konstantinovich Gershelman (Сергей Константинович Гершельман). Thanks for the help! Kaldari (talk) 23:32, 13 January 2009 (UTC)