The County of Vaduz and the Lordship of Schellenberg were granted imperial immediacy by the Emperor as early as the second half of the 14th century. The rulers were entitled to exercise high jurisdiction ("blood jurisdiction"), which was the core of the rights of a sovereign state. Subsequently, the dynasties changed about every hundred years. The imperial privileges were always transferred to the new rulers and were confirmed by the emperor again and again. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Princes of Liechtenstein received the title of Imperial Princes from the Emperor, but this title alone did not yet give them the right to participate in the Imperial Diet. For this they needed a territory that was placed under the direct ("immediate") authority of the Empire. After decades of repeated efforts, Prince Johann Adam I was able to buy the Lordship of Schellenberg in 1699 and the County of Vaduz in 1712. These two domains were located far from their other possessions in Austria, Moravia and Bohemia. They were economically almost insignificant, but they had the status of imperial immediacy. At the request of Prince Anton Florian of Liechtenstein, Emperor Charles VI united the two domains and elevated them to the Imperial Principality of Liechtenstein. This gave the Princes the right for "seat and vote" on the Imperial Diet, and secured them a distinguished place among the high nobility in Vienna.
The study deals with one of the important areas of the emergence and formation of Russian icon painting. Addresses the issue of patterns, according to which to write icons of Russian saints. Notes that the source of the information of contemporaries, alternatively, the images arising during the life of the saints and also their posthumous miraculous revelation. In the 18th century with the model for the icons they become portraits of the spiritual.
The article discusses the history of the text of the Bulgarian Saint Ilarion Meglinskij in the structure of the Personal Annalistic code, its translation into modern Russian.
The study deals with the perception of the book of the prophet Daniel in the Russian environment. It focuses primarily with the interpretation of the story of three young men in the fiery furnace.