Koka Alexandrovna Antonova

Koka Alexandrovna Antonova ( Russian Кока Александровна Антонова ; born March 10 ^{. Jul} / 23. March  1910 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , † 2007 in Moscow ) was a Soviet - Russian indologist .

Life

Antonova came from a family of professional revolutionaries . After attending school in Brighton , she studied at Moscow University (MGU) , graduating in 1931. She then worked at the International Agricultural Institute and the Institute for World Economy and World Politics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)) where she studied British Politics in Ireland , Canada and Australia .

1936 Antonova began postgraduate at the History Faculty at Moscow State University at the orientalist Igor Mikhailovich Reissner (son of the jurist and historian Mikhail Andreyevich Reissner ) and dealt with the history of India .

After the arrest of her mother as a traitor to the fatherland ( Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code ) in 1937 during the Great Terror , Antonova was exiled to Siberia . In 1939 she obtained permission to return to Moscow to continue her studies. In 1940 she successfully defended her dissertation on India during the time of Governor General Warren Hastings for her doctorate as candidate for historical sciences.

During the German-Soviet war she was evacuated in Tashkent . There she began her doctoral degree and the study of the Persian language in the evacuated Institute for Oriental Studies of the AN-SSSR . After returning to Moscow, she worked in the Fundamental Library of Social Sciences . In 1948 she successfully defended her doctoral thesis on Akbar's religious policy and the history of the Indo- Islamic secession for her doctorate in historical sciences.

In 1950 Antonova became a research assistant at the Moscow Institute for Oriental Studies of the AN-SSSR or RAN and worked there until her death.

Antonova was married to the historian Vladimir Mikhailovich Turok-Popov.

A book about Antonova's life and work was published on her 100th birthday.

Web links

• Literature by and about Koka Alexandrovna Antonowa in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Catalog of the Russian National Library : author: (антонова кока александровна)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Большая энциклопедия российская: АНТОНОВА Кока Александровна (accessed on 27 July 2020).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} АНТОНОВА Кока Александровна (р. 1910) . In: Я. В. Васильков, М. Ю. Сорокина (Ed.): Люди и судьбы. Биобиблиографический словарь востоковедов - жертв политического террора в советский период (1917–1991) . Петербургское Востоковедение, St. Petersburg 2003 ( [1] [accessed July 27, 2020]).
3. ↑ ^{a b} " В России надо жить долго …": памяти К.А. Антоновой (1910–2007) . 2010, ISBN 978-5-02-036451-6 ( [2] [accessed July 27, 2020]).
4. ^ The social background of Akbar's religious reform . In: Труды 25-го Международного Конгресса востоковедов. Москва, 9–16 авг. 1960 . tape 4 , 1963, pp. 9-15 .
5. ↑ История семьи (accessed July 27, 2020).