Tatiana Sergeevna Passek

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Tatyana Passek ( Russian Татьяна Сергеевна Пассек ; born August 2 . Jul / 15. August  1903 greg. In St. Petersburg , † 4. August 1968 in Moscow ) was a Russian - Soviet prehistorian .

Life

Passek's great-grandfather Wadim Wassiljewitsch Passek was a well-known archaeologist and ethnographer . Her great-grandmother Tatiana Petrovna Passek was a writer and related to Alexander Ivanovich Herzen . Passek's grandmother Alexandra Nikolajewna Peschkowa-Toliwerowa was a children's author and member of the Giuseppe Garibaldi movement. Passek's mother Vera Sergejewna Passek was a playwright . Passek's father was an official in the Treasury.

Passek studied at the University of Leningrad in the Department of Archeology and Art History of the Faculty of Social Sciences with subsequent aspirantur (graduation in 1930). Her teachers included Ivan Iwanowitsch Meschtschaninow , Alexander Alexandrowitsch Miller and Alexander Andrejewitsch Spizyn . Even as a student she was particularly interested in the Cucuteni-Tripolje culture , which was hotly debated at the time. After graduating, she became a research assistant at the State Academy for the History of Material Culture (GAIMK) in Leningrad .

In 1932 Passek went to Moscow and worked at the State Academy for Art History. In the same year she moved to the Moscow department of the GAIMK, which in 1937 became the Institute for the History of Material Culture (IIMK) and in 1957 the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . She stayed there until her death.

Objects from a Cucuteni-Tripolje settlement near Cărbuna, Ialoveni district (1962)

In the 1930s Passek was involved in the investigation of the objects excavated in the Caucasus and Transcaucasia from the Copper Age and Bronze Age . In 1934 she led the Tripolje expedition in the Ukrainian SSR . In the same year she defended her candidate dissertation on Cucuteni Tripolje ceramics , published in French in 1935 . In 1947 she received her doctorate in history .

From 1947 Passek led the expedition of the Institute of Archeology to research the sites in the Moldavian SSR . She also worked on the routes of the Moscow Metro, which was under construction . In 1958 she became chief editor in the magazine KSIA the Institute of Archeology as a successor to Alexander Dmitrievich Udalzows . Her successor was Irina Timofejewna Kruglikowa . Valery Sergeyevich Titov was a pupil of Passek.

Passek was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery next to her husband, the stage actor Ivan Jakowlewitsch Gremislavski (1886-1954).

August 15, Passek's birthday, is celebrated as Archaeologist's Day in Russia and Ukraine .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Белановская Т. Д .: Светлой памяти Т. С. Пассек . In: Stratum plus . No. 3 , 2002.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Відейко М. Ю .: Пассек Тетяна Сергіївна . In: Енциклопедія історії України. Т.  8 . Наук. думка, Kiev 2011 ( [1] [accessed May 6, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Т.С.Пассек - дослідниця Трипільської культури (accessed May 6, 2020).
  4. ↑ Passek TS: Периодизация трипольских поселений (III — II тыс. До  н.  Э.) . 1949.
personal data
SURNAME Passek, Tatyana Sergeyevna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пассек, Татьяна Сергеевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1968
Place of death Moscow