Places of Summer Vacations of Academician Evfimiy Karskiy: Crimea and Beyond (for the 160th Anniversary of His Birth)

Abstract

The article reconstructs the places of the summer vacancy of the academician-Slavist Evfimiy Fyodorovich Karskiy (1860—1931) during the entire time of his scientific and educational activity (since his graduation from the Nizhyn Historical and Philological Institute) on the basis of several groups of sources: reports (published and archival) on Karskiy's summer trips, his scientific publications, official documents (stored in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg, the Polish State Archive), published minutes of the Council of the Imperial Warsaw University, correspondence of the scientist from the archives of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Prague, memoirs of members of the academician's family. The favorite places of repeated summer stay of the academician's family are: Grodnenskaya province (Migovo and Ponemun estates), Crimea and the village Luga in the Leningradskaya region. The first trip to the resort — to Alushta — was taken by E. F. Karskiy, as the rector of the Warsaw University, just before his retirement, at the age of 49. E. F. Karskiy's second trip to the Crimea took place in the summer of 1914. The study managed to identify one of the photographs from the family archive of A. A. Karskyj as image of a dacha of the late 19th — early 20th century, owned by the hydrogeologist I. M. Peddakas, whose appearance was unknown for Alushta historians and museum workers.