«БЫТЬ В КУРСЕ ВАШИХ КРЫМСКИХ ПЛАНОВ.»: ИЗ ИСТОРИИ КРЫМОВЕДЕНИЯ ПО ПЕРЕПИСКЕ Ф.А. БРАУНА И С.Ф. ПЛАТОНОВА
На основе анализа переписки эмигрировавшего в Германию бывшего профессора Санкт-Петербургского университета Ф.А. Брауна и академика С.Ф. Платонова восстановлены неизвестные страницы изучения крымских средневековых памятников, в частности, Эски-Кермена, и организация в этой связи Академией наук СССР совместно с Обществом взаимопомощи немецкой науки совместной советско-германской археологической экспедиции в 1929 г. Раскрыты сложности межличностных взаимоотношений крымоведов в связи с правом изучения Эски-Кермена, особенности организации исследований средневековых крымских объектов культурного наследия. ; Bio-bibliographic studies allows us not only to reveal the state of affairs within several scientific communities and to trace interpersonal links them, but to identify social interrelations between those and all society in whole in the context of particular epoch creating its panoramic and multidimensional picture. The subject matter of my multi-year research is Crimean scientific community (first of all of historians) of early 20th century. In my article, using methods of source (archival) studies and historical reconstruction, I analyze correspondence between Prof. Fedor (Friedrich) A. Brown, former Professor at St. Petersburg University, who emigrated to Germany, on the one hand, and Academician Sergey F. Platonov, on the other hand. Based on this epistolary data, I reconstructed the unknown pages of the Crimean regional studies, related with archaeological excavation of famous medieval monument Eski-Kermen, and, in this regard, circumstances of forming joint Soviet-German archaeological expedition in 1929 (it was organized by the USSR Academy of Sciences and Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft, Emergency Association of German Science). The subject of correspondence was Prof. Btaun's participation in studying so-called 'Gothic problem' (archaeological and anthropological studies of Crimean Goths and their possible localization in places of Eski-Kermen and Cherkiz-Kermen in South-Eastern Crimea). In 1920-s, Academician Sergey F. Platonov became the main consultant who oversaw this issue in the USSR Academy of Sciences. In my article, I reconstruct main stages of F.A. Braun's biography and represent a brief sketch of his little-known publications on Crimean Goths. I also trace interpersonal relationships between Crimean and German historians in respect of the right to study Eski-Kermen, especially collisions and intrigues in its study management (among both Crimean historians and representatives of State Academy of Study of History of Material Culture in Leningrad). Analysis of several letters from Lyudmila A. Merwart, well known Soviet linguist and ethnographer, who also was correspondent of F.A. Brown shows that there were some doubts as to Nikolai Repnikov's interpretation of discoveries made by him during his excavations at Eski-Kermen. I have shown Soviet-German scientific cooperation in Gothic-Slavonic issue was rather fruitful, but it was interrupted by the 'academic case' of 1930s and Nazis ascension to power in Germany. I conclude there was significant political (ideological) element in Gothic studies in the 1920s-1930s, which had a negative impact on the quality of scientific research and on their organizations.