Home>Uliana Pavlyuchkova
Research Interest(s): Russian Empire, Eastern Siberia, colonisation, religious dissent, sectarian colonisation.
Discipline(s): History
Language(s): French, English, Russian, Polish
Biography
Uliana Pavlyuchkova’s thesis examines the Russian colonial presence in Sakha-Yakutia in the 19th century (1822–1917), focusing on a specific group of individuals: the exiles, who were forcibly settled in a region that remained untouched by the mass peasant colonisation which affected the rest of Siberia during that period. Focusing on ordinary people and spaces of interaction, this work aims to reconstruct the encounter between local populations and the exiles. The aim is to understand how these ‘involuntary’ settlers - many of whom were religious dissidents brought there against their will, with tenuous ties to the state - learned to negotiate a place within a social order where their status as ‘dominant’ was by no means a given. By linking colonisation and exile, settlement and the penal system, this thesis seeks to refine the meanings of ‘colonising’ and ‘settling’ within the context of the Russian Empire.
Education
2024–2026: Master’s in History, Sciences Po.
- Research dissertation: ‘Settlers against their will. The history of the exile of the Skopts to Yakutia (1859–1914)’ supervised by Sabine Dullin
- Summa cum laude, honour student of the School of Research
2023–2024: Exchange year, London School of Economics.
2021–2024: Undergraduate College, Sciences Po.
- Geographical specialisation: Central and Eastern Europe
- Summa cum laude
Thesis topic
La drôle de colonisation. Une histoire de la Iakoutie à travers ses colons involontaires (1822-1917) [The Strange Colonisation: A History of Yakutia through its Unwilling Settlers (1822–1917)], under the supervision of Sabine Dullin.