The First Ethnomusical Publications by Volodymyr Hoshovskyi

Relevance of the study. In 2022, the world community will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the outstanding Ukrainian ethnomusicologist Volodymyr Hoshovskyi. This date inspires a research of Hoshovskyi’s scientific career and his achievements. The main purpose of the study is to focus on less known period of scientific biography of V. Hoshovskyi and discuss his first ethnomusicological publications in 1958–1961, written in Transcarpathia in the early period of his scientific career. Scientific novelty of the research. V. Hoshovskyi’s early publications are considered in a new perspective. For the first time, the links between his four first published works have been revealed. Some of the publications have not yet been deeply analyzed in Ukrainian ethnomusicology. The main results and conclusions of the study. The study proved that not only a few, as was thought previously, but all early publications of V. Hoshovskyi discuss the issues of musical dialectology. The study «On the issue of musical dialects of Transcarpathia» (1958) became the first study on this problem. Taking into account the geographical landscape and stylistic heterogeneity of the folk music of the region, the scientist sketched out the main groups of musical dialects. The article «Some peculiarities of the historical development of Ukrainian folk song in Transcarpathia» (1959) touched upon the aspects of history influencing the formation of musical dialects and revealed such aspects as 1) the East Slavic origin of Transcarpathian music; 2) the processes of assimilation during the thousand years of Hungarian expansion, 3) contacts between inhabitants of the multinational Austria and Hungary. The issue of the influence of Czech and Slovak folklore on folk songs of Transcarpathia V. Hoshovskyi considered separately in the publication «Czech and Slovak songs in Ukrainian folklore of the Transcarpathian region of the Ukrainian SSR» (Prague, 1961; 1962, in Czech), thereby completing a historical review of multinational influences on folk music of Transcarpathia. The key role for the further Hoshovskyi scientific work had the article «Musical archaisms and their dialectal features in Transcarpathia» (1960), dedicated to the development of the methodology of musical and dialectical research. The innovative approach of V. Hoshovskyi consisted in a combination of achievements in related sciences: linguo-geography and ethnomusicology and was associated with a great rise in linguodialectic research in Transcarpathia. Thus, the early publications of V. Hoshovskyi identified the object of research, the reasons for the formation of musical dialects and outlined the methodology for their study. These studies reflected the stage of the formation of V. Hoshovskyi as a scientist, and in a broader sense – the first steps of Ukrainian ethnomusicology towards the development of musical dialectology.

COMMUNICATIVE RELATIONS ODESSA HISTORIAN S. I.-YA. BOROVOY WITH KYIV COLLEAGUES I. D. BOYKО AND I. O. GURZHII

The article is devoted to the representation of letters of well-known Kyiv historians I. O. Gurzhii and I. D. Boyko to the Odessa colleague S. I.-Ya. Borovоy. These letters for the period of the first half of the 1960’s are stored in the State Archives of Odessa region, in the fund of personal origin of Professor S. I.-Ya. Borovоy. The letters are a valuable source for studying the scientific biography and communication network of historians of the 1960s. Little-known archival documents were first published – correspondence with the Odessa historian of Kyiv colleagues who worked in various structures of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the 1940s and 1960s. These sources reflect their activities and connections with a colleague from Odesa. The purpose of this archeographic exploration is to update little-known archival sources, which significantly supplement the information about cooperation and personal contacts between Odessa and Kyiv historians, whose biographies and certain aspects of their scientific activity are revealed in the comments. The letters shed light on their scientific plans and creative laboratory of correspondents, views on social and cultural issues. The article examines the informative possibilities of letters from leading Kyiv historians of this period on the situation in historical science and the socio-cultural situation in the country as a whole. The epistles of these historians are of undeniable interest in the history of Soviet historiography, in particular, and the history of historical science. The provided materials reflect separate fragments of professional activity of two scientists and their personal and scientific communicative communications with some representatives of the Soviet scientific community. Epistles allow to reproduce some details of the history of Soviet historical science, certain episodes of the biography of a number of Soviet scientists of those years against the background of the events of the socio-cultural environment. The letters of scientists, despite the presence of powerful personal qualities, are characterized by high organization of the text, the ability to see the main things in events, extreme clarity in assessing the situation and expressing their opinions. The publication of the letters is accompanied by fairly complete comments on their content and introduces into scientific circulation a valuable historical source.

Investigation of social transformations on the verge of eras (to the 90th anniversary of Tymofiy Ivanovych Dereviankin)

The article highlights the contribution of the famous Ukrainian scientist T.I. Dereviankin in the development of historical and economic science. The main directions of his research activities and scientific achievements are characterized. The facts of the scientist’s work and scientific biography are presented. The authors provide a list of T.I. Dereviankin’s personal scientific and methodological works of 1954–2010; scientific publications that he edited; reproduction of works of prominent Ukrainian economists in 1982–2009, prepared by him; and summaries of dissertations for obtaining the scientific degree of the Candidate of Economic Sciences under his scientific advisorship in 1970–2004.

"I am at your disposal": a letter from Karl Lamprecht to Nikolai Kareev, 1914

В публикации реконструируется малоизвестная часть биографии Н.И. Кареева (1850–1931), связанная с пятинедельным пребыванием на территории Германии в на-чале Первой мировой войны. В центре публикации – письмо К. Лампрехта Н.И. Карееву, написанное в июле 1914 г. и выявленное в Научно-исследовательском отделе рукописей РГБ. Поводом к написанию письма для Н.И. Кареева стало обращение за помощью в содействии/протекции по вопросу возвращения на родину. Письмо вносит дополнительные ноты в изучение роли личных контактов ученых. Публикуется оригинал письма и перевод текста с немецкого языка. This article reconstructs a little-known part of the biography of Nikolay I. Kareev (1850-1931), associated with a five-week stay in Germany at the beginning of the First World War.. In the center of the publication is a letter from Karl Lamprecht to Nikolay Kareev, written in July 1914 and identified in the Research Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library. The reason for writing a letter to Kareev was to ask for help in promoting / protecting the issue of returning to the homeland. The letter adds additional notes to the study of the role of personal contacts of scientists and should be taken into account when reconstructing the scientific biography of Russian and German professors. The original letter and the translation of the text from the German language are published.

“We are familiar with your level of competence in historiography” The correspondence from Henri See to Nikolay Kareev in 1930-1931

В статье рассматривается переписка Николая Ивановича Кареева с французским историком Анри Сэ, материалы которой отложились в Научно-исследовательском отделе рукописей Российской государственной библиотеки. Они представляют собой письма, полученные Н.И. Кареевым от А. Сэ в 1930–1931 гг., в которых обсуждалась подготовка одной из его последних работ – статьи для французского научного издания «Revue d’histoire moderne». The article deals with the epistolary materials of Russian historian Nikolay Kareev which were found in the Manuscript Department of the Russian State Library. Materials consist of the letters that N. Kareev received from French historian Henri Sée in 1930-1931. Historians discussed the preparation of N. Kareev’s last article which was specially written for the “Revue d’histoire moderne” in 1930. The letters complement the part of N. Kareev’s scientific biography concerning his scientific contacts with French historians and his publishing activity in 1930-1931. The documents were found in the Manuscript Department of the Russian State Library and prepared for publication by V.V. Sliskova.

К СТОДЕСЯТИЛЕТИЮ ПРОФЕССОРА В.И. РОЗЕНГАРТА – РОДОНАЧАЛЬНИКА СРАВНИТЕЛЬНОЙ БИОХИМИИ ФОСФОРОРГАНИЧЕСКИХ ИНГИБИТОРОВ ХОЛИНЭСТЕРАЗ

The main stages of the life and scientific biography of Professor Viktor Iosifovich Rozengart, one of the founders of Russian neurochemistry and comparative biochemistry of toxic organophosphorus compounds, are presented.

Anatole Katok

We outline a personal, professional, and scientific biography of Anatole Katok.

A Significant Contribution to the History of Russian Folklore and Literary Studies

Рецензия на: Профессор сказочных наук. Научная биография Д. Н. Медриша: Монография / А. Х. Гольденберг, О. О. Путило, Н. Е. Тропкина. - М.: Флинта, 2021. - 456 с. Review of: Professor of Fairy-Tale Sciences. Scientific Biography of D. N. Medrish: Monograph. Ed. by A. H. Goldenberg, O. O. Putilo, N. E. Tropkina. Moscow: Flinta, 2021. 456 p.

The Dawn of Scientific Biography

This article endeavors to contribute to a better understanding of the literary contexts of early biographies of scientists written during the Scientific Revolution. To what extent are these biographies influenced by stereotypes that are an inadequate fit for modern history of science? Its claim is that there was, indeed, a literary model for biographies of scientists, and that this model had deep roots in Biblical and classical literature. While the model was similar to that used in Renaissance biographies of artists, it did not fully emerge until as late as the seventeenth century.

Bakhtin, Russia and World: Reception of Scientist’s Ideas and Works in 1996—2020 Research

The process of reception of M. M. Bakhtin’s scientific heritage over the past 25 years is analyzed in the review article. The focus of the authors is on identifying the stages and main directions, trends and achievements of modern Russian Bakhtin studies, determining the prospects for further research. The relevance of the review lies in the need for an objective reconstruction of the process of studying the ideas and heritage of M. M. Bakhtin in Russia and abroad, primarily over the past 25 years. It is noted that the works of M. M. Bakhtin are the most cited in scientific literary criticism and Bakhtin studies have become an independent branch of interdisciplinary research. The analysis revealed the role in the development of Russian Bakhtin studies of such a phenomenon as a collection of works by a scientist, Bakhtin studies journals and publications, publications of leading researchers. Conclusions are made that in 1996—2020 Russian Bakhtin studies have reached a fundamentally new level in the development of the scientist’s heritage, made a significant contribution to the study of his key ideas and concepts, completed a preliminary reconstruction of his scientific biography, carried out a systematic description of his terminological language and scientific theory as a whole, indicated the points of the necessary dialogue between Russian scientists and foreign colleagues.