Department Of Manuscripts Research Articles

«Главным предметом для моих работ и исследований всегда служили и служат проявления духовной, умственной интеллектуальной жизни русского народа…»: автобиография народника, религиоведа и социолога А. С. Пругавина. 1898 г.

The recent years have seen a growing interest of scholars in the history of the right (non-revolutionary) wing of Narodnichestvo (Populism), which was engaged in cultural and educational activities in the interests of the people, and in the personalities of its prominent representatives. One of such figures was a well-known publicist and sociologist, researcher of Old Believers and sectarianism, who also studied state of popular reading and primary public education, Alexander Stepanovich Prugavin (1850–1920). Various aspects of his work, especially in the field of religious studies, are being studied; many of his works have been republished. But until now, the personality and activities of A. S. Prugavin have not become a subject of special monographic study, many facts of his biography have not been studied. In the late 19th century, the famous literary critic and bibliographer S. A. Vengerov began collecting autobiographies of modern writers and scientists. This publication presents A. S. Prugavin’s autobiography written in 1898, which is kept in the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House) in St. Petersburg in the S. A. Vengerov fond (fond 377, series 7, file 2998, pp. 1-3). A. S. Prugavin’s autobiography is a valuable source on his life and work, as well as on the socio-political situation in Russia in the last third of the 19th century. It permits to understand the formation of A. S. Prugavin political views, his contribution to the study of Old Believers and sectarianism and his conscious departure from this problem in the mid-1880s under the pressure of the authorities and his turning to studying sociology of popular reading and public education. The autobiography of A. S. Prugavin contains references to all his significant newspaper and magazine publications and books. A large number of works published by A. S. Prugavin over 20 years bespeaks of his high creative activity and journalistic talent and showcases existence of a large number of liberal and liberal-populist newspapers and magazines (despite the opposition of the authorities) regularly offering him their pages. The autobiography of A. S. Prugavin permits to clarify some points of his biography and publication activity, of history of Russian intelligentsia, right-wing Narodnichestvo (Populism), of study of Old Believers and sectarianism and the state of popular reading and public education.

Луи Дьемер — корреспондент И. С. Тургенева (к истории литературно-музыкальных благотворительных концертов в Париже)

The article concentrates on the little-known aspects of the history of literary and musical matinées held in Paris by I. S. Turgenev, and explores his active contribution to them. The writer is known to have taken part in the benefi t concerts together with Pauline Viardot and numerous other performers. Turgenev’s letter to the celebrated French pianist and composer Louis Diémer, kept at the Manuscript Department of Pushkinskij Dom, is introduced here for the first time. This newly published letter makes it possible to date one of the matinées, as well as to reproduce the list of the performers. The letter also traces Turgenev’s links with the Parisian musical world and adds a number of corrections to the Chronicle of Ivan Turgenev’s life and literary career.

INTERNET RESOURCES OF RUSSIAN ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES IN AUXILIARY HISTORICAL DISCIPLINES TEACHING

The article analyzes the possibilities of using information systems and databases in auxiliary historical disciplines teaching. Particular attention is paid to paleography and genealogy internet resources which were created by Russian archives and libraries. The most important method of research applied in this study is the historical and comparative method, which identifies the most successful digital resources in auxiliary history disciplines in terms of scholarly execution and pedagogical use. Digitization of monuments of Russian writing of the XI-XVIII centuries generated a number of resources prepared by the National Library of Russia. The project “Russian autographs. Russian writing monuments in the collections of the Russian National Library Manuscripts Department” is of great importance for students on paleography as a source of additional information. Electronic copies of some monuments with their scientific description, transcription and translation can be used in practical classes, independent study and students' knowledge and skills testing. Russian archives create databases which permit the search for files related to genealogical issues and provide access to electronic images of historical sources. Such resources allow to form the skills of information search in databases and research family history. However, there are currently no internet resources with fully developed methodological tools.

Text and Paintings

The manuscript now preserved as Indien 745 in the Manuscript Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) contains 137 paintings by an Indian artist, each accompanied by an explanation in French. These paintings depict deities and sages in static posture or narrative mode, as well as icons associated with temples. The present contribution forms a preliminary study of this manuscript in our project on South Indian manuscripts with paintings of deities preserved in the BnF.

LANGUAGE MATERIALS OF THE CENTRAL ASIA AND SIBERIA COLLECTİON OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS OF THE INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

For more than 100 years, the Department of Manuscripts and Documents of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (formerly the Asiatic Museum, the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences) has been collecting materials on linguistic monuments of Central Asia and Siberia (mainly Turkic). However, there was no description and cataloguing of these materials. Since January 2010, the author of the present article has carried out an inventory and identification of these materials. As a result of this work, it was found that the collection contains a large number of unique linguistic materials, mainly rubbings of Turkic runic inscriptions, which significantly expand the possibilities of linguistic and historical study of the written heritage of the ancient Turks. The rubbings are copies of texts of both well-known and unknown monuments, as well as inscriptions that were considered lost. In the course of work with the collection, materials stored in the State Hermitage Museum, the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), the Russian Museum of Ethnography, the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Archives of the Orientalists of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the RAS were involved. In parallel, work was carried out on the conservation of storage units. Some materials were included from other collections.

„Chciał patronować wszystkiemu”. O wkładzie Leona Halbana w rozwój lubelskiego życia naukowego

The aim of the article is to indicate the contribution of prof. Leon Halban and the importance of his involvement in the functioning of this scientific community. The research problem is contained in the question of what determined the professor to courageously enter and actively participate in various aspects of scientific life in the post-war years. The text has been divided into three parts. The first concerns the scholar’s pedigree along with the period of university work in Lviv. The second part presents the professor’s contribution to the activities of three Lublin juridical departments and related teaching and the performance of administrative functions at KUL and UMCS. The third part relates to other forms of scientific activity and popularizing science. The reasoning was carried out on the basis of the historical and legal method and the analysis of archival materials. Obtaining materials from the archives of the Catholic University of Lublin, UMCS, DALO in Lviv and the Manuscript Department of the University of Lublin, their analysis and recalling the relevant literature on the subject allowed us to draw the following conclusions: prof. Leon Halban belongs to the group of people who helped to resume research and teaching activities at the Catholic University of Lublin after the Second World War. He applied to the juridical departments of this university on the basis of working methods learned from the Jagiellonian University in Lviv. He was a pioneer when it comes to teaching historical and legal disciplines at UMCS. His interests also exceeded the strict limits of science. It can certainly be said that such a style of action and commitment was determined by the work ethic of a scientist, the sources of which should be sought in the studies and work at the Jagiellonian University in Lviv.

Rare and Valuable Copies from the Library of N. V. Ustyugov in the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the SB RAS

The article deals with the problem of identifying and studying personal book collections of researchers in the funds of state libraries on the example of the documents from the collection of the Soviet historian N. V. Ustyugov, stored in the department of rare books and manuscripts (RBMD) of the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GPNTB SB RAS). The purpose of the article is to introduce valuable documents from this collection into scientific circulation, to attract the attention of the research community to it. The most notable documents from this collection obtained in 2018 are considered. They are: books of the XVIII – first third of the XIX centuries, belonging to the category of book monuments, the oldest of which (“Tsarstvennyj Letopisets”) was printed in 1769. In the process of studying copies stored in RBMD from the Ustyugov book collection , more than 250 books with donation records of outstanding scientists (A. A. Zimin, V. T. Pashuto, N. I. Pavlenko, A. M. Sakharov etc.) were also revealed.; records of 150 donors have been identified in total). They reflect the professional and human relations of the owner with colleagues, students, various aspects of his activities. The value of this collection as a curios reflection of a certain period of Soviet historical science is emphasized.

Two New Sources for Frederic Tubach’s Index Exemplorum 639 and Further Justification for Robert Holcot as a Source of A Christian Mannes Bileeve

In the introduction to the edition of the Middle English explanation of the Apostles’ Creed, known as A Christian Mannes Bileeve (hereafter CMB), I note that Robert Holcot’s Convertimini, a compilation of examples used by preachers, stands as the source for the exemplum of birds dying in the woods during the Passion week.1 This example is catalogued as entry 639, ‘Birds die in Passion Week’, in Frederic Tubach’s Index Exemplorum, a handbook of 5,400 religious exempla culled from thirty-seven different medieval collections.2 There, Tubach describes a Saracen leading an Englishman to a wood where they witness dead birds that will resurrect at Easter. He cross-references J. A. Herbert’s Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum to provide only two sources of that avian story: Holcot’s Convertimini and John Mirk’s ‘Sermon on Corpus Christi’ from his collection of homilies known as the Festial.3 This note adds two additional instances of this same example to Tubach, thus bringing the total number of medieval texts using the reference to birds dying in the woods during the Passion to four. The first of these new sources is CMB, a 12,000-word Middle English explanation of the Apostles’ Creed dating from the late fourteenth century, which uses the example in CMB’s section on the fourth article of the faith, Passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus et sepultus [He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and buried] to foreshadow the miracle of Christ’s resurrection.4 The second is British Library MS Harley 2247, a fifteenth-century collection of Temporale sermons that includes a revised version of Mirk’s Corpus Christi sermon. There the homilist positions the exemplum as a mnemonic device to encourage heartfelt remembrance of Christ’s crucifixion.5 This note also provides additional clarification that the example in Holcot’s Convertimini—and not Mirk’s Corpus Christi sermon or its revision in Harley 2247 (both identified in the edition, and the latter not named in Tubach)—is the ultimate source of the exemplum as it appears in CMB.

«Too much ideological bitterness has been added to this issue»: V. N. Andreev’s correspondence with M. Finley

The documents of M. Finley in the library of Cambridge University and in the personal fund of V. N. Andreev in the manuscript department of the Russian National Library in Saint Petersburg contain letters from two historians. The correspondence of M. Finley and V. N. Andreev shows that the Soviet scientist was not only a situational Finlean, but also quite consciously followed the principles of M. Finley’s work with sources. Acquaintance with M. Finley’s works and correspondence with him significantly influenced V. N. Andreev: he became a follower of an English scientist, working outside the framework of scientific schools that existed in Soviet scholarship. Correspondence with M. Finley shows a high degree of inclusion of a Soviet scientist in the current agenda of world science about Antiquity in the late 1950s – first half of the 1960s, however, the closeness of the Soviet scientific community, the lack of full-fledged international communication did not contribute to the perception of V. N. Andreev’s ideas by Western scientists. For M. Finley, V. N. Andreev was apparently just one of his many followers scattered around the world. The lack of personal contact did not allow this position to be changed. The very fact that the Soviet scientist in matters of methodology followed and listened to the advice of the scientist of the «bourgeois» testified that the Soviet historiography of Antiquity since the late 1950s could no longer be perceived as a single stream; the Soviet historical narrative of the thaw era ceases to be unified.

The Lithuanian Consulate in Petrograd, 1921–1923

The Lithuanian Consulate in Petrograd in the years 1921–1923 has been studied in Lithuanian historiography by focusing on the establishment of Lithuanian consulates in Soviet Russia in 1921 and the appointment and activities of Stasys Zaskevičius as Consul ad Interim from the second half of 1922 through 1923. The period when the consulate was led by Jonas Matukas, his appointment and activities, the origins of the consulate and its operation in 1922 have not been investigated at all. Therefore, based on the sources and historiography, the aim of the research is to reconstruct the process of the establishment and functioning of the Lithuanian Consulate in Petrograd from 1921 to 1923 with a special focus on the specificities of the living conditions and activities. The research is based on unpublished sources from the Political Archive of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs kept at the Lithuanian Central State Archives, the Manuscripts Department of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and published sources, namely documents, periodicals and studies by Lithuanian (Tomas Balkelis, Milena Tamošiūnienė) and foreign (Aleksander Wasilewski, Winfried Baumgart) authors. Methods of qualitative analysis and synthesis (the new material of the sources was supplemented with the information circulating in historiography), the comparative method (the information published in the Lithuanian press was compared with the information found in the Lithuanian Central State Archives), and the descriptive method were applied in this research. To process the primary sources in Lithuanian, German, and Russian languages, the logical-analytical method was applied (the notional content and information analysis was conducted). The research led to the conclusion that due to the correspondence bureaus established in Petrograd during World War I, the city became the centre of communication between Lithuanians on both sides of the front. After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed and Germany recognised Lithuania’s independence, Petrograd became the centre of repatriation of Lithuanian deportees and refugees. The Lithuanian consular institution established in Petrograd in 1921 employed over thirty members of staff who helped the deportees and refugees of Lithuanian nationality and citizenship to return to the restored state of Lithuania and provided assistance in the form of food and clothes through the Lithuanian Red Cross until 30 September 1923.

On the Experience of a Comprehensive Study of Handwritten Books of Old Russia: Parchment Illuminated “Synodic” of the Main Collection of Handwritten Books, F.p.IV.1 in the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Russia

On the Experience of a Comprehensive Study of Handwritten Books of Old Russia: Parchment Illuminated “Synodic” of the Main Collection of Handwritten Books, F.p.IV.1 in the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Russia

BEHİÇ ERKİN İLE GYULA NÉMETH ARASINDAKİ YAZIŞMALAR (1934-1949)

Behiç Erkin corresponded with Gyula Németh, the famous Hungarian turcologist, where he was the minister in Hungary between 1928-1939. These correspondences, which began in 1934 and continued until the end of the 1940s, are kept in the Manuscripts Department of the National Széchenyi Library in Budapest. The relevant folder consists of 19 letters, business cards and postcards. It is understood that this contact, which initially included official contacts on professional issues, evolved into a friendship over time; So much so that these two people continued to write to each other despite the obstacles such as the Second World War and the Cold War. Following Erkin completed his diplomatic missions and returned to Turkey, the content of the correspondence took the form of New Year gratitudes. These correspondences are remarkable owing to the fact that they reflect the political and social atmosphere of the period and give clues about the turcology in Hungary. The correspondence emerged during the examination of the origins of Turkish history and language, which was an important pillar of the Turkish Cultural Revolution in the Early Republican Period, as Németh's area of expertise was in line with. The Turkish authorities were able to utilize the Hungarian scholar's knowledge to its utmost where the latter was very willing to share his professional experience. In this study, the correspondence between Behiç Erkin and Gyula Németh in the referred classification is completely given while the people and events mentioned in these correspondences, which are given in a chronological order, are explained and interpreted.

The History of the Latin-graphic Book of Psalms in the Church Slavonic Language from Norov´s Book Collection

This article is devoted to the research of the History of the Book of Psalms manuscript from A.S.Norovʼs book collection stored in the Department of manuscripts of the Russian State Library. The manuscript was written at the beginning of the 18th century in Church Slavonic language Polish letters by two nuns from the East Slavic region of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who moved to Russia at that time. Very few such texts have survived, and almost all of them were created in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Records by the owners of the manuscript indicate that the manuscript was found at the estate of Prince Andrei Dolgorukov near Moscow — in the village of Bogorodskoye located in the immediate vicinity of the Moscow Ascension maiden Monastery. It is suggested that the creator of the manuscript could be a village nun of this monastery who lived in the village of Bogorodskoye. The article analyzes indirect information about the authors of the manuscript and draws a conclusion about their use of certain symbols characteristic of the cultural and theological environment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Archival collections in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Research Library of Tomsk State University: experience and prospects of work

The Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Research Library of Tomsk State University stores more than 30 archival collections related to public figures, scientists, writers, as well as certain parts of the archives of institutions that existed in Tomsk. The time and circumstances of their arrival are different. Personal collections predominate, mostly thematically, anyway connected with Siberia. For example, the personal archives of G. N. Potanin and N. M. Yadrintsev, N. I. Naumov, P. I. Makushin are stored in the library of Tomsk State University.To date, 1/3 of them have inventories, work with the rest of the collections continues.The problem of availability of archival collections in libraries is frequent in specialized scientific literature. It is noted that the institutions of memory – libraries, archives and museums – can often have a variety of types of documents, which sets the task of ensuring safety of complex and diverse collections, choosing accounting systems and combining them, developing an acquisition policy, and establishing interaction with each other for working with scattered collections. The purpose of this paper is to present the current state of archive collections stored in the Research Library of TSU, their structure, the results of the work done and the main problems to be solved. Such collections are of great value for scientific research and educational, exhibition work. Meanwhile, not all archival collections have been systematized and described, since the vast stock of the department poses a number of other important tasks for the stuff.It is noted that the task of cataloging all the collections stored in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books can be solved by staffing this area of work; developing an acquisition policy and instructions for processing the Library archival stocks; involving students and volunteers to the analysis and description of documents; and broadening inclusion of these collections in scientific research.

An Amulet Scroll from Erzurum from August D. Żaba’s Kurdish Collection in the Manuscript Department, National Library of Russia, Kurd. 51

Abstract This article presents an edition, translation, and study of the amulet scroll Kurd. 51 from the Kurdish collection of August D. Żaba that was presented by him to the Manuscript Department of the National Library of Russia (NLR) in St Petersburg in 1868 along with 52 manuscripts and lithographs. The amulet contains passages in Arabic and Persian and was found, according to Żaba, among the Kurds in Erzurum.

Learning from Steinkopf

AbstractThis paper contributes to the deliberations around the future of modernist architecture in the Modern Heritage of Africa (MoHoA) initiative. As creative practitioners and academics, our work has focused on considerations of architecture and urbanism, variously designing, theorizing, and photographing cities and structures. Our work is very much a critique of architectural photography, an approach to visualizing and thinking about cities that is analytical. Our collaborative work is set in dialogue with conventional forms of architectural scholarship and photography. For 12 years we have been working to examine the questions of ‘apartheid's modernities’. Our current project is to document architect Roelof S. Uytenbogaardt's buildings. Uytenbogaardt died in the late 1990s. His papers are lodged at UCT Libraries' Department of Manuscripts and Archives. We have been collecting and constructing our own archive and have recorded a large percentage of Uytenbogaardt's public buildings, projects and sites in South Africa.

Akademik Vasilij Bartol'd v istoricheskom krymovedenii: neizvestnye stranicy nauchnoj biografii

The article restores the Crimean aspect of the academic activity of Academician Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (1869-1930), unknown to biographers of the historian. On the basis of the preserved epistolary heritage, documents of the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the manuscript department of the Scientific Archive of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the largely unrealized programs of the scientist for the preparation of expeditions to study the monuments of material culture of the Turkic peoples of the Crimea have been recreated. Diverse information on the history of Crimean studies of the first third of the twentieth century is introduced into scientific circulation.

COMPARATIVE AND TEXTOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SCIENTIFIC-CRITICAL TEXT OF THE WORK WITH THE AUTOGRAPH “RASHAHOT” (TEHRAN EDITION, 1977)

This article is dedicated to the study of the text of the work “Rashahot ain al-hayat” (Drops from the Fountain of Life) written by Fakhruddin Ali Safi Koshifi Hiravi (d. 939/1532-1533). In the article, the oldest copies of this work are kept in Tashkent manuscript funds - State Literary Museum named after Alisher Navoi of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan “Rashahot”.manuscript. №33/II, Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu Rayhan Beruni of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan “Rashahot”. manuscript №10147, Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu Rayhan Beruni of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu Rayhan Beruni of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, “Rashahot”. Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu Rayhan Beruni of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan manuscript.№5418 ҳамда “Rashahot”. National Manuscripts Department of Tehran Library Council #8201 (26458) inv. digital) features of manuscripts are discussed. The article also includes the texts of these ancient manuscript copies of “Rashahot” and the Tehran edition of the work (“Rashahot”. Scientific and critical text. Tehran, 1977. Prepared for publication - AA. Mu’iyniyan.) text is compared with each other and the State Literary Museum “Rashahot” named after Alisher Navoi of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. manuscript. It is firmly concluded that the text of copy #33/II is the perfect, most reliable text of the work "Rashahot ain al-hayat" (Drops from the Fountain of Life).

Арабографичные рукописные произведения по корановедению в истории мусульманских народов Республики Башкортостан

The Republic of Bashkortostan can be considered one of the few subjects of the Russian Federation where Arabographic manuscripts were brought to, copied and written in large numbers by local authors and scribes. At the moment, more than 5,000 copies of Arabographic sources of var-ious subjects and chronology are deposited in various institutions of the republic. This article is de-voted to the comprehension and analysis of the book manuscript heritage of the Muslim peoples of the Southern Urals in the form of Arabographic historical sources mostly related to religious scienc-es. The object of the research are Arabographic manuscripts thematically related to the sections of the Qur’anic sciences and deposited in two academic institutions of Ufa: 1) the Department of Man-uscripts and Rare Editions of Ahmet-Zaki Walidi National Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan (ORRI NB RB). 2) the Department of Rare Books at the Academic Library of the Ufa Federal Re-search Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ORC NB UFIC RAS). As a result of the research of these funds, the most widespread and significant works on Qur’anic studies that have played a certain role in the enlightenment and formation of religious consciousness among the Muslim peo-ples of the Republic of Bashkortostan have been identified. In general, research in this area allows to expand the source base on the history of Islam in Russia.

International Refugee Aid in Postwar Germany as Evaluated by Emigrants and Displaced Persons from Russia and the Soviet Union

This article is devoted to international assistance to refugees who stayed in German camps in the second half of the 1940s. The authors of the article focus on ego-documents coming from Soviet “displaced persons” and emigrants from Russia. The novelty of this study lies in the fact that the authors carry out a comparative analysis of the information found in these historical sources and the official documents of the UN structures involved in helping refugees, which has not been done previously. The authors refer to materials from the archives of the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace (Stanford, USA), the Bakhmetev Archive of Russian and East European Culture of Columbia University (New York, USA), the Manuscript Department of the Library of Congress (Washington), the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library (Moscow, Russia), and the UN archive. Also, they rely on the conceptual developments of specialists in the field of ego-document analysis as a historical source. As a result, it is proved that many statements in the memoirs of Soviet “displaced persons” and emigrants are emotional in nature and not supported by information found in other sources. The analysis demonstrates that international organisations created to help refugees after the Second World War faced objective difficulties. The activities of these structures were peculiar in that they developed on the territory of Germany, which was divided into occupation zones. The authors identify the main parameters of the activities of international organisations to help refugees and show the sources and scale of funding provided for the camp system in Germany in the second half of the 1940s. Considerable attention is paid to the evolution of the system of international assistance to refugees associated with the transition from the UNRRA to the IRO. The authors prove that in the first postwar years, there was a search for ways to provide assistance to refugees and “displaced persons” and the development of international mechanisms in this area, which would be improved in the subsequent period.