New facts from professor D. Belyaev’s life in view of the correspondence with professor D. Korsakov
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2023-5-1-12-23
Abstract
The study presents an analysis of the epistolary heritage of Dmitry Belyaev (1846–1901), the resident professor of Kazan Imperial University, classical philologist and byzantologist. These precious documents are currently kept in the personal fund of professor D. Korsakov – the addressee of D. Belyaev – in the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan. For the first time in Russian historiography, the identified and formed complex of the sources provides information on a number of events from the scientific biography of the scholar previously little-known and sometimes virtually unreported in science. The sources under consideration allow us to clarify the circumstances of the philologist’s personal life, to supplement his biography with qualitatively new characteristics. The above archival documents cast light on such an important event in the researcher’s life as moving to Kazan in 1877 to work at Imperial Kazan University, identify his circle of scientific communication, and also provide information about the activities and personalities of the Faculty of History and Philology in the 1880s–1890s. Along with that, it is possible to specify some of the peculiarities of the professor’s scientific work on Byzantine antiquities. The conducted research makes it accessible to rediscover the facts from the scholar’s biography previously forgotten in home historical science, to carry out a more definite and accurate historical and biographical reconstruction of the life and scientific heritage of Dmitry Belyaev.
About the Authors
A. A. Nikitin
The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anton A. Nikitin
420111, Kazan, Kremlevskaya St., bld. 2
A. A. Khokhlov
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexandr A. Khokhlov, Cand. of Sci. (History), associate professor
420008, Kazan, Kremlevskaya St., bld. 18
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Nikitin A.A., Khokhlov A.A. New facts from professor D. Belyaev’s life in view of the correspondence with professor D. Korsakov. History and Archives. 2023;5(1):12-23. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2023-5-1-12-23
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