Sinaida Vladimirovna Udaltsova

Zinaida Vladimirovna Udal'tsova born Zinaida Vladimirovna Mylzyna , ( Russian Зинаида Владимировна Удальцова , maiden name Russian Зинаида Владимировна Мыльцына * 5. March 1918 in Kislovodsk , † 29. September 1987 in Baku ) was a Soviet medievalist , Byzantinistin and high school teacher .

Life

Udalzowa, daughter of the landowner Vladimir Amwrossijewitsch Mylzyn, studied at the University of Moscow (MGU) in the historical faculty (IstFak) with a degree in 1940. She was married to fellow student Ivan Ivanovich Udalzow , who served in the Red Army after graduating in 1940 .

During Udalzowa's subsequent aspiration , the IstFak was evacuated with the students after the start of the German-Soviet war . During the evacuation, Udaltsova met the historian and writer Michail Antonowitsch Alpatow (1903-1980), whom she married in second marriage and with whom she had their son Vladimir Michailowitsch Alpatow in 1945 . She completed her postgraduate studies in 1945 with the successful defense of her dissertation on the party struggle in Byzantium in the 15th century and Bessarion's work for a doctorate as a candidate in historical sciences.

1945–1949 taught Udaltsova at the distance learning party college at the Central Committee of the CPSU . From 1946 she taught at the Chair of Medieval Studies at the MGU. She also worked at the Institute for Slavic Studies from 1947 to 1949 .

In 1949 Udaltsova became a research assistant at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) in the sector of Byzantine Studies . In 1960 it was for her doctoral dissertation about Italy and Byzantium in the 6th century doctor PhD of historical sciences. From 1961 she headed the Byzantine Studies sector.

In 1968 Udaltsova became head of the Byzantine Studies Sector of the AN-SSSR Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies and Professor of General History. In 1970 she became head of the Byzantine Studies Sector of the Institute for General History of the AN-SSSR, which she took over in 1980 and held until her death. In 1976 she was elected Corresponding Member of the AN-SSSR.

Udalzowa headed the Association of Byzantinists of the USSR and was elected vice-president of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines in 1976 . From 1978 to 1983 she was President of the Russian Palestine Society and from 1982 a foreign member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Udalzowa's research interests were the economy, social and political development and cultural life in the Byzantine Empire and the history of feudalism in Europe . The Byzantinist Sergei Arkadjewitsch Ivanov denied that Udaltzova's work was scientifically based on the partisan communist attitude and assumed that Alexander Kazhdan , for example , had emigrated because of her leadership behavior . On the other hand, Ivanov pointed out that she promoted the Slavist Sergei Sergeyevich Averintsev , although he did not meet Soviet standards and turned to religious issues.

Udaltsova died in Baku and was buried in Moscow in the Vagankovo ​​cemetery .

Honors, prizes

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1975)
• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union (1981)
• State Prize of the USSR (1987 posthumously ) for participation in 13-volume world history
• State Prize of the Russian Federation (1996 posthumously) for participation in the 3-volume monograph on Byzantine culture of the 14th-15th centuries. Century

Web links

• Literature by and about Sinaida Vladimirovna Udaltsova in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Catalog of the Russian National Library : Удальцова, Зинаида Владимировна

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Архивы Российской академии наук: Ученица и последовательница Е.А. Косминского - Удальцова Зинаида Владимировна (accessed May 14, 2020).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} MGU: Удальцова Зинаида Владимировна (accessed on May 15, 2020).
3. ↑ В.М.Алпатов: О матери (Воспоминания о Зинаиде Владимировне Удальцовой) (accessed May 15, 2020).
4. ↑ Russian Academy of Sciences: Удальцова Зинаида Владимировна (accessed May 15, 2020).
5. ↑ Международные научные связи. Краткие сообщения . In: Вестник АН СССР . No. 5 , 1983, pp. 87 ( [1] [accessed May 15, 2020]).
6. ↑ Профессор Сергей Иванов о комплексе неполноценности, наследниках Византии и уплощении образовании, accessed on May 15, 2020.