scholarly journals On the History of the Soviet Byzantine Studies: The Correspondence of M. Ja. Sjuzjumov to Z. V. Udal’tsova

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 318-392
Author(s):  
Tatiana Viktorovna Kushch ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Body ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This publication comprised the letters of Mikhail Jakovlevich Sjuzjumov, the founder of the Ural school of Byzantine Studies, to Zinaida Vladimirovna Udal’tsova, the head of the Soviet Byzantinology, with appropriate comments. The traces of their long-lasting epistolary communication reside in the Russian Academy of Sciences Archive and the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region as 55 letters by M. Ja. Sjuzjumov and 6 letters by Z. V. Udal’tsova. This almost 30-year-long correspondence enabled the Ural scholar to keep abreast of all what happened in the Soviet Byzantinology and to deal efficiently with organisational matters. The correspondence in question covered various topics related to Sjuzjumov’s scholarly and educational works: the organization of the defence of his doctoral dissertation, the preparation and publication of his articles and books, the discussion of his published academic works, the organization of conferences and his participation in them, the work in the editorial boards of Vizantiiskii Vremennik and collective volumes of the History of Byzantium, relations with colleagues, patronage of students, current university matters, etc. These letters also uncover Sjuzjumov’s concept of the genesis of feudalism and his position related to some disputable issues of the Byzantine and Mediaeval Studies. The publication of the main body of correspondence of the two twentieth-century Byzantologists sheds additional light on many pages in the history of Soviet Byzantine studies.

scholarly journals The Neelovs Fond from the State Archive of the Smolensk Region: Russian Public Figures of the 19th Century in the Midst of Rural Everyday Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 995-1006
Author(s):  
Natalia I. Gorskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Body ◽  
State Archive ◽  
The Family ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article analyzes sources in the family fond “The Neelovs” from the State Archive of the Smolensk Region. The main body of documents relates to the history of the 19th century and has not yet been introduced into scientific use. The Neelovs, nobles of the Gzhatsk uezd, who were included in the first part of the genealogical book of the nobles of the Smolensk gubernia, participated in major events of the 19th century on national and regional level. The article is to describe the content of the fond and to assess the information potential of its sources for studying the history of a noble provincial family in the context of Russian history. It establishes that the documents differ in their origin and significance. Recordkeeping documents and those of personal provenance are numerous and informative. Among recordkeeping documents of particular interest are documents of economic nature and the Neelov brothers’ records of service; among sources of personal provenance of most interest are travel notes and epistolary heritage of the family members. There are numerous documents reflecting the Neelov brothers’ life and career, many of which concern well-known Russian professor of the Military Academy and writer N. D. Neelov and the director of the department of agriculture of the Ministry of State Property and Senator D.D. Neelov. The author concludes that the identified sources allow to recreate the history of a rural noble family before and after the abolition of seldom, to study its economic situation, culture, everyday life, and evolution of the social role of nobility in provincial life. The fond content also clarifies socio-economic processes in the midst of peasantry, history and repercussions of the major events of the 19th century: the war of 1812, the Polish uprising of 1831, preparation of the abolition of seldom, activities of the Zemstvo institutions; it helps to connect the history of the family and the history of the country.

scholarly journals Crimean Correspondents of Academician V. I. Vernadsky (1920s–1930s)

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Andrey A. Nepomnyashchy ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Local History ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Pedagogical Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Written Sources

Referring to a corpus of epistolary sources kept in the personal archival fund of academician V. I. Vernadsky in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (correspondence sent to him from Crimea) and documents from the St Petersburg branch of the RAS Archive and the Department of Written Sources of the State Historical Museum, the author restores some aspects of the daily life of Crimean local history of the 1920s–1930s. Vernadsky’s attention to people and events on the peninsula are connected with a dramatic period of his biography, i.e. his unexpected tenure as rector of the University of Taurida (October 1920 — January 1921). Thanks to the participation of the university in the activities of the Taurida Scientific Association, the academician formed a social circle of scientists from different fields of knowledge in Crimea. The analysis of Vernadsky’s correspondence helps define his range of interests related to Crimean affairs after his departure from Crimea. Vernadsky, not indifferent to the fate of Taurida University (M. V. Frunze Pedagogical Institute) (during the years in question described as Crimean University), was interested in the fate of the prominent professors who he worked with at the university in 1920. Thanks to the Crimean correspondence of A. I. Markevich, the leader of the local history movement, the author has been able to clarify the fate of individual manuscripts by V. I. and G. V. Vernadsky and the history of transfer of funds of the pioneers of comprehensive exploration of the peninsula P. I. Köppen and H. H. Steven to the Archives of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The epistolary heritage of geologists P. A. Dvoichenko and S. P. Popova, Vernadsky’s former colleagues at Taurida University, makes it possible to recreate the pages of the research of the natural productive forces of Crimea carried out in those years. In his correspondence with professors E. V. Petukhov and N. L. Ernst, Vernadsky discussed individual issues that worried scientists.

scholarly journals Materiały do dziejów Archiwum Państwowego w Poznaniu w świetle spuścizn z zasobu PAN Archiwum w Warszawie Oddział w Poznaniu

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 199-209
Author(s):  
Jarosław Matysiak
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Polish Academy ◽  
State Archive ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

W artykule przedstawiono spuścizny czterech pracowników Archiwum Państwowego w Poznaniu, przechowywane w zasobie PAN Archiwum w Warszawie Oddział w Poznaniu – dyrektorów placówki: Kazimierza Kaczmarczyka, Czesława Skopowskiego i Jana Szajbla, oraz kierownika Pracowni Konserwacji materiałów archiwalnych Kazimiery Chojnackiej. W tekście przedstawiono okoliczności przejęcia spuścizn przez PAN Archiwum w Warszawie Oddział w Poznaniu, omówiono materiały dotyczące Archiwum Państwowego w Poznaniu i działalności autorów spuścizn w okresie pracy w tymże archiwum. Materials regarding the history of the State Archive in Poznań in the light of the legacies from the collection of the Archive of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poznań branch The article presents the legacies of four employees of the State Archive in Poznań, kept in the collection of the Archive of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poznań branch, namely the directors of the office: Kazimierz Kaczmarczyk, Czesław Skopowski, and Jan Szajbel, as well as Kazimiera Chojnacka, the head of the Archive Materials Preservation Lab. The text presents the circumstances in which these legacies were taken over by the Archive of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań branch, and discusses the materials concerning the State Archive in Poznań and the activity of the authors of the legacies while they had worked in this archive.

Novgorod Governorate’s Marshal of Nobility Mikhail Nikolayevich Butkevich, a Forgotten Soviet Historian and Archivist

2018 ◽  
pp. 578-590
Author(s):  
Simon S. Ilizarov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
Social Background ◽  
The State ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
History Of Knowledge ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Landed Gentry ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The paper reconstructs the biography of a forgotten historian archivist M. N. Butkevich (29.12.1858—23.03.1933). His pre-revolutionary life is described: his social background, studies at the St. Petersburg University and his fascination with the Narodniks’ ideas and deportation to Vologda under overt surveillance in 1879, followed by a successful and typical career of major landed gentry that culminated in his election to the State Council, achievement of the rank of Actual State Councillor, and election as Novgorod Governorate’s Marshal of the Nobility early in 1917. In 1927, after several years of despondency, deprived of his fortune and privileges, M. N. Butkevich became a staff member of the USSR Academy of Sciences’ Commission on the History of Knowledge with the help of Academician V. I. Vernadsky. In his line of duty, Butkevich had performed a number of important historical and archival studies of the documentary legacy of M. V. Lomonosov, P. S. Pallas, and others. Butkevich’s work on sorting out Lomonosov’s papers was highly valued as ‘very meticulous and helpful’ by V. I. Vernadsky, A. I. Andreev, and M. M. Soloviev. His contribution to the archeography of Lomonosov’s works is well worth exploring. Besides his participation in the re-publication of Lomonosov’s works, his description of Lomonosov’s papers in Leningrad is well worth mentioning. This description is typologically similar to description of the Pallas documents, but is probably even more detailed. Butkevich’s description in 14 folio pages offers results of his study of the materials from the Archive of the Conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Incunabula Department, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the State Public Library. Events of the ‘Academic case,’ which resulted in the purge of ‘old-regime’ workers from the Academy, did not affect Butkevich much. Surprisingly, even after Vernadsky had to leave his post of the Commission for the History of Knowledge director, in which he was replaced by N. I. Bukharin, little changed for Butkevich. Moreover, on March 15, 1930 deputy director of the Commission for the History of Science academician I. Yu. Krachkovsky authorized M. N. Butkevich to collect archival materials for special projects. The paper is based on the documentary sources introduced for scientific use for the first time.

scholarly journals One hundred years in the networks of bureaucracy. Review of the book by V. V. Ogryzko “Pod nadzorom Kremlya: izryadno potrepannaya, no utselevshaya Akademiya nauk” [Under the supervision of the Kremlin: a fairly battered, but survived Academy of Sciences]

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 242-247
Author(s):  
Sergey Egerev
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Special Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

An excursion through the pages of the book by V. V. Ogryzko “Under the supervision of the Kremlin: a fairly battered, but survived Academy of Sciences” is given. The history of uneasy relations between the government and the Academy of Sciences can be traced from the first post-revolutionary years to the present day. The mostly detailed description relates to the efforts of the Soviet government to tame (“to Sovietize”) the Russian Academy of Sciences in the first post-revolutionary years. In his research, based on unique archival sources, the author operates with a large number of sources and a large number of activehistorical figures, from academics to employees of special services. It is noted that over the past hundred years, not only the Academy has changed, the methods of state influence on the academic community have changed, and the goal setting of the state has also changed. In the first decades, the Soviet government was faced with the task of introducing as many loyal communists as possible into the academic community, and after the collapse of the USSR, the task of “depriving” the Academy from material assets became firmly on the agenda. The author of the book – V. V. Ogryzko – comes to the conclusion that many discoveries andachievements of our scientists were made not thanks to the support of the state, but rather in spite of it.

scholarly journals Formulating World History According to Alexander O. Chubaryan. Oriental Courier’s Digest for the 90th Anniversary of Academician Alexander O. Chubaryan

2021 ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Marina V. Starodubtseva
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
The State ◽  
State Prize ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
90Th Anniversary ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This article is a digest of ideas and statements of a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, head of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN) and Chairman of the National Committee of Russian Historians Alexander Oganovich Chubaryan, composed in honour of his 90th anniversary.

A History of Oriental Studies in Russia, based on the Correspondence of V. V. Bartol’d and N. F. Petrovskii between 1893 and 1908, from Archival Collections in the Russian Academy of Sciences (История отечественного востоковедения в переписке В.В. Бартольда и Н.Ф. Петровского (1893–1908 гг.) из архивных собраний Российской академии наук)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-184
Author(s):  
Mikhail Dmitrievich Bukharin (Михаил Дмитриевич Бухарин ◽  
Irina Fedorovna Popova (Ирина Федоровна Попова)
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
Eastern Turkestan ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This article presents twenty-five unpublished letters between the outstanding Russian scholar Vasilii Vladimirovich Bartol’d and the diplomat Nikolai Fedorovich Petrovsky, who was a key organizer of Russian archaeological research in Eastern Turkestan. The letters illustrate certain peculiarities in the development of Oriental studies in Russia during the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, and they enlarge our knowledge of Bartol’d’s and Petrovskii’s roles in that developmental process. В публикации представлена переписка (25 писем) выдающегося востоковеда В.В. Бартольда и дипломата, организатора археологического изучения Восточного Туркестана Н.Ф. Петровского. Переписка характеризует особенности развития востоковедения в России в конце xix – начале xx вв. и расширяют наши знания об участии в этом процессе Бартольда и Петровского.

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