About Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy (On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth)
The article is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding scientist, teacher, public figure Academician Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy, great-grandson of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy. At the 15th of April, 2023 Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy would have turned 100 years old. The article presents the memoirs of Nikita Ilyi...
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies
2023-07-01
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| description | The article is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding scientist, teacher, public figure Academician Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy, great-grandson of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy. At the 15th of April, 2023 Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy would have turned 100 years old. The article presents the memoirs of Nikita Ilyich’s student about her mentor. The main facts of his biography are listed, including childhood in exile, participation in the Second World War as part of the Yugoslav partisan underground and of the Red Army, and the career of a Soviet philologist. The article tells about the important stages of his scientific, pedagogical and social activities. The author recalls the key ideas, research, works and achievements of Nikita Ilyich. She discusses the emergence of ethnolinguistics, which he founded, and ethnolinguistic expeditions in Polissia, which he inspired and organized for many years. The author emphasizes the importance of the organizational activities of the scientist in the difficult period for the Russian science during the late 80s – 90s. The text contains many private episodes from everyday meetings, studies and work side by side with Nikita Ilyich, personal impressions. Outstanding education, intelligence and aristocracy of the descendant of the famous Tolstoy family are noted. The author also notes the sincere and deep religiosity of Nikita Ilyich, which he did not hide in spite of external circumstances. The article presents to the readers a full, living image of a man and a scholar who left a deep mark both in scholarship and in the hearts of all who were lucky enough to know him personally. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bd2ab319a20b4b67b791d60271fa23e72024-03-02T09:13:43ZrusRussian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic StudiesСлавянский мир в третьем тысячелетии2412-64462023-07-01181-2141151https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2023.18.1-2.09About Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy (On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth) Nadirya (Nadezhda) Nizametdinova 0Department of History of the Russian Language and General Linguistics, Faculty of Russian Philology, Institute of History and Philology, State University of Education (Moscow State Regional Pedagogical University) The article is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding scientist, teacher, public figure Academician Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy, great-grandson of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy. At the 15th of April, 2023 Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy would have turned 100 years old. The article presents the memoirs of Nikita Ilyich’s student about her mentor. The main facts of his biography are listed, including childhood in exile, participation in the Second World War as part of the Yugoslav partisan underground and of the Red Army, and the career of a Soviet philologist. The article tells about the important stages of his scientific, pedagogical and social activities. The author recalls the key ideas, research, works and achievements of Nikita Ilyich. She discusses the emergence of ethnolinguistics, which he founded, and ethnolinguistic expeditions in Polissia, which he inspired and organized for many years. The author emphasizes the importance of the organizational activities of the scientist in the difficult period for the Russian science during the late 80s – 90s. The text contains many private episodes from everyday meetings, studies and work side by side with Nikita Ilyich, personal impressions. Outstanding education, intelligence and aristocracy of the descendant of the famous Tolstoy family are noted. The author also notes the sincere and deep religiosity of Nikita Ilyich, which he did not hide in spite of external circumstances. The article presents to the readers a full, living image of a man and a scholar who left a deep mark both in scholarship and in the hearts of all who were lucky enough to know him personally.https://slavicworld.ru/index.php/jsw/article/view/391/407nikita ilyich tolstoyethnolinguisticsdictionary “slavic antiquities”jubileememoirs |
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