“Proceedings of the Department of Russian Language and Literature” Edited by E. F. Karsky as a Reflection of the Publishing Policy of the DRLL in Soviet Times

Abstract

The Department of Russian Language and Literature (DRLL) of the Imperial Academy of Sciences acquired an independent printing organ early on, the initiator of the creation of which and the first editor was I. I. Sreznevsky. “Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences on the Department of Russian Language and Literature” were published under his editorship (first series) in 1852—1863 and determined the nature of this academic periodical publication — a publication reflecting the organizational and scientific life of the DRLL, responding to the priority areas of research of the department, publishing the works of members of the academy and researchers associated with it with their works, paying tribute to outstanding figures in the field of Russian language and literature. The second series of “Proceedings” began to be published after a break, from 1896 under the title “Proceedings of the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences / Russian Academy of Sciences / USSR Academy of Sciences” and continued until the reorganization of the department in 1927; then three more volumes were published under the title “Proceedings on the Russian language and literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences”. The last editor of the magazine who took over this assignment after the death of A. A. Shakhmatov at the end of 1920 was academician E. F. Karsky, who by that time had rich editorial experience as the publisher of the “Russian Philological Bulletin”. In a difficult time for slavistics in the first soviet years, E. F. Karsky managed to preserve not only the magazine itself, but also its fundamental appearance, maintaining the publishing traditions laid down by the first editor — I. I. Sreznevsky.