Italy, Vatican, Russia. Scientific Path of Evgenia Sergeevna Tokareva. To the 70th Anniversary of Her Birth

Abstract

The article is devoted to the review of the scientific path of the leading Russian researcher of the history of Italy and the Catholic Church E. S. Tokareva and is timed to her jubilee. The whole scientific biography of the jubilee relates to the Institute of the World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where E. S. Tokareva has been working for 45 years. She began her research activity with the study of the relations between the Catholic Church and the Italian state in the period of the fascist dictatorship (1922—1943). Then she paid attention to the problems of interaction between religious communities in Europe and political regimes of various types, and since the late 1990s she has been working on the relationship between the Vatican as the Centre of the Catholic world and Soviet Russia. Much attention in the article is paid to the review of scientific and organizational activities of the jubilee, who since 2004 headed the Centre for the History of Religion and Church at the Institute of the World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and also coordinated scientific relations of the Institute of the World History with church (both domestic and foreign) academic structures, such as the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences, Gregorian University, and the Church Scientific Centre “Orthodox Encyclopedia”.