"IN GENERAL, THIS CONGRESS IS MORE LIKE A PICNIC THAN A SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE": LETTERS OF V.V. ADORATSKY ABOUT THE TRIP TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF HISTORIANS, 1928
S.G. Petrov
Institute of History SB RAS, 8, Nikolaev str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
Keywords: history of historical science, VI International Congress of Historians, Soviet historians, V.V. Adoratsky, epistolary sources, everyday life
Abstract
The paper considers the VI International Congress of Historical Sciences held in August 1928 in Oslo, the Norwegian capital. The official Soviet delegation took part in the work of Congress for the first time. It pays attention to such a historical source as ego-documents containing personal impressions of the Soviet participants of the Congress about their sojourn in Norway. The article introduces into scientific circulation, analyzes and publishes full body of private messages consisting of six letters from Oslo by V.V. Adoratsky. This epistolary corps contains nowhere else published detailed information about the Congress activity, presented reports, lobby discussions, meetings with foreign colleagues, communication with them, as well as the everyday life during the trip to Oslo, starting with getting visas, solving difficult transportation problems, and to depicting the vivid impressions of the cultural program of the Congress, local sights, solemn banquets and feasts, habitation in a student hostel.
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