Abstract
The article explores the biography and research activities of philologist, paleographer and specialist in folklore Pavel Konstantinovich Simoni. In 1888, being a graduate of the Historical and Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg University and a disciple of I. V. Yagich, he was involved in the work on the publication of the dictionary of the modern Russian language, which was being prepared by the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Having proved himself in the course of this work in the best possible way, in January 1892 P. K. Simoni received an invitation to join the Department of Russian Language and Literature and take up a new position of clerk, established shortly before. Since then, the whole life of the scholar has been inseparably linked with the Academy of Sciences and the Department of Russian Language and Literature, where he worked for almost 35 years. P. K. Simoni had a wide range of research interests and often worked simultaneously in several different areas: he conducted studies in the field of Russian paremiology, studied and published old recordings of Russian songs and epics, prepared several works on the history of bookmaking in Russia, etc. After the revolution of 1917 P. K. Simoni turned to a new for him kind of activity — teaching. He began to give lectures and hold seminars on Slavic-Russian paleography, the history of printing houses, the history of books and book distribution in various educational institutions of Petrograd. Recognizing P. K. Simoni’s scholarly merits, in December 1921 the Russian Academy of Sciences elected him as its corresponding member to the Department of Russian Language and Literature and by the specialty “Russian literature”. After the retirement in 1926, the scholar continued his active research and teaching activities, not giving it up until the last days of his life.
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