Philosophical Oriental Studies. By the 100th Anniversary of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1921-2021)

The Russian Oriental studies are rich and diverse in their disciplines. The focus of research activities conducted mainly at the university centres of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, and during Soviet times in the capitals of some republics (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, etc.), was largely determined by the domestic political and geopolitical interests of the Russian Empire. Thus, a philosophical aspect in oriental studies, as well as university philosophical education practical^ did not exist. The changes brought by the revolution of 1917 have greatly affected all fields of social life, including the academic milieu. The article examines a complex and contradictory path of development of the national philosophy, on the example of the Institute founded in 1921 by Gustav Gustavovich Speth (1879-1937), nowadays the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The latter has become the main focal point of the philosophical research activities in the former Soviet Union. Particular attention is paid to the liberation from the Eurocentrism inherited from imperial times concerning the spiritual heritage of the peoples of the East as a whole, and in philosophy in particular. The pivotal points of its activity became “History of Philosophy” in 3 Volumes (19411943) and “History of Philosophy” in 6 Volumes (1957-1966). The real breakthrough was the encyclopedias, such as: “The New Philosophical Encyclopedia” in 4 volumes (2001); “Indian philosophy. Encyclopedia” (2009); “The Philosophy of Buddhism: Encyclopedia” (2011). The Orientalist aspect in higher philosophical education nowadays becomes more visible. The recent international recognition of the achievements of the Russian Orientalist philosophical studies regardless of a relatively small number of specialists is largely due to their collective efforts and close cooperation.

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Contribution of Pyotr Lerch to the Study of the History of Central Asia (Based on Materials from the Archives and Libraries of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

Manuscripta Orientalia International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research ◽

10.31250/1238-5018-2021-27-1-61-64 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 61-64

Author(s):

Dilora Radjabova ◽

Keyword(s):

Central Asia ◽

Asian Studies ◽

The Real ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Central Asian ◽

History Of ◽

Oriental Studies ◽

Academy Of Sciences

The article is devoted the works and activities of Pyotr Ivanovich Lerch (1828—1884), one of the modest but truly devoted to the real scholarship representatives of Russian academic Oriental studies tradition, whose scholarly contributions are closely connected the Central Asian studies. His name is associated with interesting collections of manuscripts and documents, study and replenishment of numismatic collections, archaeological surveys, philological research and important scholarly events.

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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)

Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography ◽

10.1163/22102388-01000006 ◽

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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The 9th International Conference “Written Historical Sources of the East. Aspects of Translation and Interpretation»

Orientalistica ◽

10.31696/2618-7043-2019-2-4-1081-1094 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 1081-1094

Author(s):

L. V. Goriaeva

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Present Communication ◽

Historical Sources ◽

International Conference ◽

Its Analysis ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

History Of ◽

Oriental Studies ◽

Academy Of Sciences ◽

First Time

Оn October 28–30, 2019, at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was held the 9th International Conference “Written Historical Sources of the East. Aspects of Translation and Interpretation”. It attended by Orientalist scholars of different specialties: historians, specialists in languages and historians of literature. They offered their interpretation of the wide variety of historical sources written in more than 10 languages. The variety of researched material invited various approa ches and methods of its analysis as it has been demonstrated by 30 speakers, who represented institutions of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa and Olomouc (Czech Republic). The Conferences was opened by Professor Vladimir Alpatov, the Member of the Russian Academy. In his talk, he highlighted the fact that the interdisciplinary format of the Conference has transpired to attract various scholars who work on various aspects of the history of the East. Over a third of the conference participants attended it for the first time. The present communication provides a summary of the most interesting talks made at the conference.

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ANNALS OF THE KOLA SCIENCE CENTER. YEAR 2015.

Herald of Kola Science Centre of the RAS ◽

10.37614/2307-5228.2021.13.1.004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1/2021) ◽

pp. 62-74

Author(s):

O.A. Bodrova ◽

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Y.A. Stogova ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Science Center ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Science Management ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences ◽

Scientific Awards

The chronology of the main events of the history of the Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2015 is presented: the results of researches, scientific and management activities, information on events, social life, state and scientific awards and transformations, as well as photographs from the Archive of the Department of Science Management of FRC KSC RAS.

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Alexander Marakuev - the first Director of the Central Scientific Library of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Bibliosphere ◽

10.20913/1815-3186-2017-4-96-100 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 96-100

Author(s):

A. A. Khisamutdinov

Keyword(s):

Far East ◽

Scientific Work ◽

Foreign Languages ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Research Activities ◽

Oriental Studies ◽

University Degree ◽

Academy Of Sciences ◽

Far Eastern ◽

Central Scientific

In 2017 the Central Scientific Library of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CSL FB RAS) in Vladivostok celebrates the 85th anniversary of its foundation. The publication uses rare materials from Vladivostok archives. CSL FBRAS formation was due to the enthusiastic orientalist A. V. Marakuev (1891-1955), who was its first Director (since 1932). Without a University degree, he educated himself the whole life, learnt Chinese and other foreign languages. During a trip around the world he lived in Harbin, where was engaged in scientific work. Arriving Vladivostok, Marakuev participated in opening the Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. At that time, he has published many articles on bibliography and economic geography of the Far East and Oriental studies. A. V. Marakuev awarded a degree of candidate of geographical sciences for a series of his works. In difficult years of repression, Marakuev could form a unique book collection, which base was the Oriental Institute collection in Vladivostok (1899-1920). Unfairly repressed A. V. Marakuev continued research activities in Alma-Ata.

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Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Commonality and Diversity”. 21–22 May 2019. Session “Linguistics”

Slavic World in the Third Millennium ◽

10.31168/2412-6446.2019.14.1-2.21 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (1-2) ◽

pp. 295-297

Author(s):

Sergej A. Borisov

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Middle Ages ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

International Context ◽

Slavic Languages ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Current State ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences

For more than twenty years, the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences celebrates the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture with a traditional scholarly conference.”. Since 2014, it has been held in the young scholars’ format. In 2019, participants from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Togliatti, Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, and Rostov-on-Don, as well as Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania continued this tradition. A wide range of problems related to the history of the Slavic peoples from the Middle Ages to the present time in the national, regional and international context were discussed again. Participants talked about the typology of Slavic languages and dialects, linguo-geography, socio- and ethnolinguistics, analyzed formation, development, current state, and prospects of Slavic literatures, etc.

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All men and beasts, lions, eagles, quails… Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Representations of Nations and States in Slavic Сultural Discourse

10.31168/0441-1 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Russian Empire ◽

Imagined Communities ◽

Cultural Discourse ◽

Visual Images ◽

Scientific Conference ◽

Historical Evolution ◽

The South ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences

The book was compiled on the materials of the scientific conference “Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representations of nations and states in the Slavic cultural discourse” (2019), held at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and devoted to the history of the nations’ personifications and generalized ethnic images in period of “imagined communities” formation. This process is reconstructing on verbal and visual sources and by methods of various disciplines. The historical evolution of such zoomorphic incarnations of nations as an Eagle (in the Polish patriotic poetry of the first third of the 19th cent), a Falcon (in the South Slavic and Czech cultures in the 19th cent), a Griffin (during the formation of the Cassubian ethnocultural identity) is considered. The animalistic national representations in the Estonian caricature of the interwar twenty years of the 20th cent., so as the functioning of the Bear’s allegory as a symbol of Russia in modern Russian souvenir products are analyzed. The originality of zoomorphic symbolism in Polish and Soviet cultures is shown оn the examples of para- and metaheraldic images in XXth cent. The transformation of the verbal and visual images of “Mother Russia” personifications in Russian Empire was reconstructed. The evolution of various allegories of ethnic “Self” and “Others” is presented by caricatures of 19th – 20th cent. in Slovenian periodic and in Russian “Satyricon” journal (1914–1918).

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