- PII
- S0131-60950000339-7-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S50000339-7-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 1
- Pages
- 5-34
- Abstract
- The Chancellor of the Russian Empire, Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev, having retired, organized and financed from his own funds several large-scale scientific events to study the past and present of Russia. In particular, the activities of the count and his staff - members of the "Rumyantsev circle" - were aimed at finding and publishing new or little-known written sources and other materials related to the history of the Russian state.By the early 1820s, several centers of the circle's scientific activity had been formed. The Moscow Center functioned around the Moscow archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs and the Commission for the Printing of State Letters and Treaties, created on its basis. Its members included: A.F. Malinovsky, K.F.Kalaidovich, P.M.Stroyev. In St. Petersburg, the center of the circle became the Rumyantsev mansion on the English Embankment. Here they regularly met and discussed scientific issues, worked with materials from the richest Rumyantsev collection, bibliographer F. Adelung, orientalist H. D. Fren, Byzantine scholar F. I. Krug, Slavist A. Kh. Vostokov, and others. in Gomel, Polotsk, Vilna. The Chancellor's instructions were carried out there by the future Minister of Finance, EF Kankrin, II Grigorovich, IN Danilovich. Employees of the Rumyantsev circle also worked in Smolensk, Kiev, Novgorod, etc.
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- Date of publication
- 02.01.2018
- Year of publication
- 2018
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