Jelena Cheslavovna Skrschinskaya

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Jelena Tscheslawowna Skrschinskaja ( Russian Елена Чеславовна Скржинская ; born April 12 . Jul / 24. April  1894 . Greg in St. Petersburg , † 2. April 1981 in Leningrad ) was a Russian - Soviet medievalist and high school teacher .

Life

Skrschinskaja's father Tscheslaw Kiprianowitsch Skrschinski (1849-1912) was an electrical engineer and came from the Polish Szlachta family Skrzyńska. Skrschinskaja began her studies in St. Petersburg in 1912 at the Faculty of History and Philology of the Advanced Courses for Women . Her teachers included Michael Rostovtzeff , Lev Platonowitsch Karsawin and Iwan Michailowitsch Greaves . She was most strongly influenced by Olga Antonovna Dobiash-Roshdestvenskaya . After the October Revolution , Skrschinskaya graduated from Petrograd University in 1919 .

After graduation, Scrchinskaya worked in Petrograd at the State Academy for the History of Material Culture under the direction of Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr . She researched medieval Italian inscriptions in the Crimea . In 1930 she was dismissed from the Academy because of attending church services and the support of Lev Platonovich Karsavin, who was one of the founders of the Free Philosophical Society and the Theological Institute and had been banished from the USSR in 1922 without the right to return . Skrschinskaja now lived from casual work and published her work in foreign specialist publications. In 1936, following a decision by the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR), she received her doctorate without defending a dissertation as a candidate for historical sciences.

Even before the German-Soviet war , Skrschinskaja was a lecturer at the University of Leningrad and taught Latin palaeography (1936–1942 at the Chair for Medieval Studies , 1945–1949 at the Chair for Byzantine Studies ). From 1943 she worked in Moscow and after the end of the Leningrad blockade and the end of the war in the Leningrad department of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the AN-SSSR. In 1953 she was released and retired.

In 1956, Skrschinskaya received a position at the Leningrad Institute for the History of the AN-SSSR, which allowed her to conduct fruitful research and which she held until 1970.

Skrschinskaja's main research interests were the Crimea in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, in particular the Genoese and Venetian colonies there , medieval Italy , the development of handicrafts, the military and mining in Europe in the Middle Ages in connection with the development in Russia and the trips of Giosafat Barbaros , Ambrogio Contarinis and other Italians to Russia. She also researched the ethnogenesis of the Polovzians . Particularly significant was their examination and translation into Russian of Getica the historian Jordanes , who appeared with their comments in 1960 and her dissertation for her doctorate on the doctor was in History 1,961th Igor Pavlovich Medvedev was one of her students who completed his aspirant course with her with the preparation of his candidate dissertation. She was a corresponding member of the Genoese Società Ligure di Storia Patria .

Skrschinskaja's daughter Marina Vladimirovna Skrschinskaja became a Ukrainian ancient historian .

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  1. ↑ a b c d e University of St. Petersburg: Скржинская Елена Чеславовна (accessed on May 13, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b c d Medvedev IP: Е. Ч. Скржинская (некролог) . In: Византийский временник . tape 44 , no. 69 , 1983 ( [1] [accessed May 13, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Мажуга В. И .: Е. Ч. Скржинская - исследователь и публикатор исторических источников . In: Иордан. О происхождении и деяниях гетов. Getica . Алетейя, Moscow 2001 ( [2] [accessed May 13, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Neussychin AI : Рецензия на издание Иордана под ред. Е. Ч. Скржинской . In: Иордан. О происхождении и деяниях гетов. Getica . Алетейя, Moscow 2001, p. 5-6 .
  5. ↑ a b c Владимир Шаронов. Он поэтически предвидел судьбу … Книга « Джиордано Бруно » как скрытая исповедь Льва Карсавина . In: The Ergo Journal . March 5, 2015 ( [3] [accessed May 12, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Котляр Н. Ф .: Предисловие . In: Иордан. О происхождении и деяниях гетов. Getica . Алетейя, Moscow 2001, p. 5-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Skrschinskaja, Jelena Tscheslavovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Скржинская, Елена Чеславовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet mediaevalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1981
Place of death Leningrad