Biography:
PhD in Modern History (Moscow State
University, 2005; University of Paris–Sorbonne, 2008)
Senior research fellow (Institute of
World History, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Associated research fellow (Roland
Mousnier Center: University of Paris–Sorbonne / CNRS, France)
olga.okouneva@gmail.com
Profile on Academia.edu: https://igh.academia.edu/OlgaOkuneva
Research areas:
- New World Discovery and
Exploration (the Case of Portuguese America). European Colonial Expansion in
the Americas.
- French Presence in
Brazil (16th–17th Centuries) and its Legitimation.
- European Perception of the New World. American Alterity and the French
Consciousness. Early Modern Travel Literature and Text Studies. Cartography of
the New World.
- French in the Scientific and Intellectual Life in Russia, XVIIIth –XXth
Centuries. Henri Brocard and His Family in Moscow.
Main
publications:
1) New World
Discovery and Exploration (the Case of Portuguese America). European Colonial
Expansion in the Americas. French Presence in Brazil (16th–17th
Centuries) and its Legitimation. Europeans and Native People of the Coastal
Brazil (16th–17th Centuries)
- Did the French Discover
the Brazil? In: Latin
America, 2003, no. 4. P. 66-78.
- “The Enterprise that
Begun with Success and Costed so much Labors”: the “Antarctic France” in Brazil
in the XVIth Century. In: Latin America, 2004 no. 12, pp. 51-67.
- Red Gold Rush: French
and Portuguese in Brazil (first half of the 16th Century). In: Modern
and Contemporary History, 2005, no. 5, pp. 198–211.
- To Plant One’s Name on a Map: Toponyms as a Method to Legitimate French Presence in Brazil during the
XVIth – beginning of XVIIth Centuries. In: American Yearbook – 2011. Moscow, Ves Mir, 2011, pp. 314–325.
- Europeans in the New
World: French Presence in the Brazil during the XVIth – beginning of
XVIIth Centuries. In:
Electronic Scientific and Educational Journal «History». Volume 2 (10), 2012. Dossier:
Medieval Studies: New Approaches on the Limits of the Periods in the World
History (Pavel Yu. Uvarov ed). – http://history.jes.su/issue.2012.1.3.2-10-/s207987840000312-2-2
See also the paper edition of this issue: Moscow, Institute of World
History, 2012, pp. 84–89.
- Traitors and Betrayal in the
French Brazil during the XVIth – beginning of XVIIth centuries. In:
Kirill Levinson (ed.) Betrayal as a Matter for the Historic Analysis. Moscow,
Institute of World History, 2012, pp. 213–240. See also in: Odisseus. A Man in
History. 2012. Moscow, Nauka, 2012, pp. 139–166.
- V.A. Vedushkin, O.V. Okuneva, G.A. Shatokhina. Colonial Possessions of
the European States in the XVIIth Century. In: World History in 6 volumes
(ed. in chief A.O. Chubarian). Vol. 3: Early Modern World (edited by V.A.
Vedushkin, M.A. Yussim). Moscow, Nauka, 2013, pp.
727–735.
- Gastaldi’s Map of Brazil from the Third Volume of Ramusio’s Navigationi
et Viaggi (1556, 1565, 1606). In: Irina Konovalova (ed). Historical Geography. Vol. 2. Moscow, Aquilon, 2014, pp. 268–301.
- “We” and “Our Guys”: French Authors on American Indians as Allies in
Brazil (XVIth and early XVIIth Centuries). In: Electronic
Scientific and Educational Journal «History». Volume 4 (27), 2014. Dossier: Scientists, Knowledge and Power in
Colonial and Continental Empires (Velikhan S.
Mirzekhanov, Olga V. Okuneva, Samuel B. Volfson eds). – URL: http://www.history.jes.su/s207987840000711-1-1. See also
the paper edition of this issue: Moscow, Integration: Education and Science,
2015, pp. 101–114.
- La «France Antarctique» au Brésil: le prologue des
guerres de Religion en France? In: Proslogion: Problems of the Social History and Culture of the Middle
Ages and Early Modern period. № 1 (13). Special issue on the French Wars of
Religion (Vladimir Shishkin, Hugues Daussy eds). Saint Petersburg, 2016, pp.
293–314.
- “A Nail Better than a Golden
Coin”: Everyday Communication and Trade Techniques between French and Brazilian
Indians in the 16th Century. In: Olga Togoeva (ed). Everyday
Practices in the Middle Ages and Modern Period. From the Unique Testimonies to
the Verifiable Information. Moscow, Institute of World History, 2015, pp.
25–68.
- Los corsarios y los mercaderes
franceses en las costas del Brasil en el siglo XVI. In: J. Quintero Gonzalez,
M. Alfonso Mola, C. Martínez
Shaw (eds). La economía marítima en España y las Indias. 16 estudios.
San Fernando, Excmo Ayuntamiento de San Fernando, 2015. P. 17–27.
- Russian Ambassadors and Brazilian Indians at the Court of Marie de
Medicis and Louis XIII. In: Srednie Veka (= Middle Ages). Studies on Medieval
and Early Modern History. Vol.
76 (3-4). Moscow, Nauka, 2015, pp. 161–192.
- Henriville’s Mystery.
Authors of the 16th and 17th Centuries on the Town that
Should Be a French Predecessor of Rio de Janeiro. In: Universitas Historiae.
Collection of Articles in Honor of Pavel Yu. Uvarov. Moscow, Institute of World History,
2016, pp. 177–182.
- White Lie, Simulation
for Courtesy and Wrong Impressions: Some Episodes from the History of the
French Brazil ((XVIth and
early XVIIth Centuries). In: Olga Togoeva, Olga Kosheleva (eds).
Fraud and Trickery as an Everyday Practice. Individual and Collective
Strategies of Conduct. Moscow, Institute of World History, 2016, pp.
243–276.
- The First Russian
Embassy in France (1615–1616) and Some Curious Echoes of the Events in the New
World. In: Kira Yu. Kashlavik (ed). Russia and France. The XVIIth Century.
Nijni Novgorod, Radonej,
2016, pp. 21–30.
2) European
Perception of the New World. American Alterity and the French Consciousness. Early Modern
Travel Literature and Text Studies
- Modalidades de la representación
del Brasil y de sus habitantes en la Francia del siglo XVI. In: I. Rodríguez Moya (ed.), Arte, poder e identidad
en Iberoamérica : de los virreinatos a la construcción nacional, Castelló
de la Plana: Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, D. L, 2008. Р.
105-116. (0,5 п.л.).
- “To Extend the Matter”:
Brazil and Its Native People as Viewed in France of the 16th
Century. In: Iberica Americans. Latin American Culture in the Discussions of
the late XXth and early XXIth Centuries. Moscow, Institute of World Literature, 2009, pp. 210–223.
- French Testimonies on
Travels to Brazil in the mid-XVIth Century: Literary Strategies. In:
Olga Togoeva, Igor Danilevski (eds) Homo legens. Between Reality and the Text of
the Historic Document. Moscow, Institute of World History,
2011, pp. 226–256.
- Barbarian and / or Noble Savage: Views on the Brazilian Indians in France
(16th Century). In: Vera Budanova, Olga Vorob’eva (eds).
Civilization and Barbarity: Transformation of Concept and Regional Experience.
Moscow, Institute of World
History, 2012, pp. 129–149.
- The Importance of Being
French: From the Brazilian Indians’ Point of View (16th Century).
In: Srednie Veka (= Middle Ages).
Studies on Medieval and Early Modern History. Vol. 73 (1-2). Moscow, Nauka, 2012, pp. 295–312.
- XVIth
Century Catholic and Protestant Authors on the First French Colony in Brazil.
In: Igor Danilevski, Olga Togoeva (eds). Retrospective Information of the
Historic Documents: Images and Reality. Moscow, Institute of World History, 2013, pp. 179–200.
- Ensaio sobre o mapa “Brasil” de G. Gastaldi
pertenecente ao Delle navigationi e viaggi de G. B.
Ramusio (1556; 1565; 1606). In: Terra Brasilis (Nova Série), № 2, 2013. Rede Brasileira de
História da Geografia e Geografia Histórica (ed). URL: http://terrabrasilis.revues.org/715
- Essai sur la carte de G. Gastaldi «Brasil» insérée dans «Delle navigationi
et Viaggi» de G. B. Ramusio (1556; 1565; 1606). In : Terra Brasilis (Nova Série), № 2, 2013. Rede Brasileira de História
da Geografia e Geografia Histórica (ed). URL: http://terrabrasilis.revues.org/743
- Testimonies on the S. America in the French Travel Literature (16th
–early 17th c.): Overview of Primary Sources and Changing Methods of
Study //
Anthropology of the Peoples of America: Sources and Historiography. Moscow, Nov
11–12, 2015. Abstracts and Materials from the Symposium. Moscow, 2015. P. 73–74.
3) History of Brazil
- The Fall of the Bragança
Dynasty in Brazil. In: Vokrug Sveta (= Around the World), 2009, no. 5, pp.
114–122.
- Question-Answer: What
Does Brazilian Flag Mean; Why Brazil is Called So. In: Vokrug Sveta (= Around the World), 2009, no. 5, p. 84.
- Liudmila Okuneva, Olga Okuneva. Three Capitals in the History of Brazil:
Transfer of the Metropolitan Functions in the Historic Retrospective. In: Irina
Konovalova (ed). Transfer of a Capital: Historic Experiences of the
Geopolitical Planning. Abstracts and Materials from the Conference held on
2013, October 28-29. Moscow, Institute of World History; Aquilon, 2013, pp. 106–115.
- Abolition of Slavery in
Brazil. In: World History in 6 volumes.
Ed. in chief Alexander O. Chubarian. Vol. 5: World in the XIXth
Century: toward Industrial Civilization (edited by Velikhan S. Mirzekhanov).
Moscow, Nauka, 2014, pp. 744–745.
- Liudmila Okuneva, Olga Okuneva. Brazil.
In: Russian Historic Encyclopaedia (ed. by Alexander Chubaryan). Vol. 3.
Moscow, Olma Media Group, 2016, pp. 219–235.
- Liudmila Okuneva, Olga Okuneva. Not Only a Translation: Some Considerations on
the Russian Edition of Boris Fausto’s “História concisa do Brasil”. In: Ibero-Romanic
Studies. Vol. 15: On the Anniversary of Portuguese Studies in Moscow State
University. Moscow, Max Press,
2016, pp. 124–141.
TRANSLATION:
- Boris Fausto. The
Concise History of Brazil. Translation from Portuguese into Russian by Liudmila
and Olga Okuneva; introduction by Boris Komissarov, afterword by Liudmila
Okuneva. Moscow, Ves’
Mir, 2013. 448 p.
4) French
in the Scientific and Intellectual Life in Russia, XVIIIth –XXth
Centuries
- Les
Français dans la vie intellectuelle et scientifique en Russie, XVIIIe–XXe siècles (sous la
direction d’A. Tchoubarian et F.-D. Liechtenhan; coord. O. Okouneva). Moscou,
Olma Media Group, 2010. 384 p.
- Les Français dans la vie
intellectuelle et scientifique en Russie au XIXe siècle / sous la
direction d’A. Tchoubarian, F.-D. Liechtenhan, V. Rjeoutski et O. Okouneva.
Moscou, Institut d’histoire universelle, 2013, 387 p.
- Les Français dans la vie
intellectuelle et scientifique en URSS au XXe siècle / sous la direction d’A.
Tchoubarian, F.-D. Liechtenhan, S. Coeuré et O. Okouneva. Moscou, Institut
d’histoire universelle, 2013, 353 p.
- Сherpitel N., Okouneva
O. Henri Brocard, entrepreneur
français à Moscou : parfumeur et collectionneur. In : Les Français
dans la vie intellectuelle et scientifique en Russie au XIXe siècle
/ sous la direction d’A. Tchoubarian, F.-D. Liechtenhan, V. Rjeoutski et O.
Okouneva. Moscou,
Institut d’histoire universelle, 2013, pp. 368-382.
Member of the Editorial Bord:
- Volume in honor of
academician Alexander Chubarian on the occasion of his anniversary. Moscow, Institute of World History, 2012. 378 p.
- Electronic Scientific and Educational Journal «History». Volume 4 (27),
2014. Dossier: Scientists, Knowledge and Power in Colonial and
Continental Empires (Velikhan S. Mirzekhanov,
Olga V. Okuneva, Samuel B. Volfson eds). – URL: http://www.history.jes.su/s207987840000711-1-1. See also the paper edition of this issue: Moscow, Integration:
Education and Science, 2015, 267 p.
- World History in 6 volumes. Ed. in chief Alexander O. Chubarian. Vol. 5:
World in the XIXth Century: toward Industrial Civilization (edited
by Velikhan S. Mirzekhanov). Moscow, Nauka, 2014, 935 p.
- History of Spain.
Vol. 2: From the War of the Spanish Succession to the Beginnings of the
XXIth Century (Mikhail A. Lipkin, Olga V. Volosiuk, Ekaterina E.
Yurchik eds). Moscow, Indrik, 2014, 816 p.
- Universitas Historiae.
Collection of Articles in Honor of Pavel Yu. Uvarov. Moscow, Institute of
World History, 2016.