Milestones of the centuries-old path: the main stages of the history of historical education in a leading university of the Republic of Crimea

Abstract

The article describes the main stages of the 100 –year history of historical education at the oldest and most authoritative university of the Republic of Crimea – the former Tauride University, formed in 1918 at the height of the Civil War, and a year later, in 1919, recognized by the government of General A.I. Denikin as the “Twelfth Russian University”, now – the Crimean Federal University named after V.I. Vernadsky. The paper contains information about the fate of the archives of theTaurideUniversity– the university, in which, in 1918–1920, many prominent Russian scholars, including historians G.V. Vernadsky, B.D. Grekov, I.A. Linnichenko, Ars. I. Markevich, carried out their creative activity. Published inCrimeaduring the Civil War, the works of these scholars (they remain hardly known and do not appear in printed bibliographic directories) have been identified by the author of the article, they have been listed and there is a reference to the contemporary edition on the pages of which these works have been republished. The article presents information about the main stages in the history of historical education at the Crimean higher educational institution in the Soviet period, it also describes the cardinal changes in the system of historical education at the Crimean university after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the paper explicates the vigorous attempts undertaken in 1992–2013 to Ukrainize the university and depicts, as a consequence of these attempts, the difficult fate of the Department of Russian History.