a history of slavic studies

[Alexey Vdovin]

Dear Hugh,
thank you so much for such generious list!
Best,


2013/8/27 Hugh Olmsted <hugh_olmsted at comcast.net>

> Dear colleagues:
> On the heels of the Slavic-Studies citations I sent out a short time ago,
> I thought I might mention another addendum, a bit of a curio concerning a
> very long strung-out research project of my own, now stretching back almost
> 30 years.  It is still unpublished, but, I hope, not for too much longer.
>  It involved contributions of Russian books to the Harvard Library by the
> first U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Quincy Adams,  a donation initiated
> by a request from the University's president on the eve of Adams' departure
> for St. Petersburg.  A similar request at the same time by the
> lexicographer Noah Webster yielded some volumes for the latter as well.
>  All these books survive in the Harvard and Yale Libraries, respectively --
> interestingly I discovered the larger part of the Harvard books just
> standing in the open Widener stacks, many with Adams' autograph; and
> promptly had them transferred to the Houghton Rare Book and Manuscript
> Library.
>
> The project was first presented in germ as:  "John Quincy Adams'
> contributions to the Harvard Library Slavic collections" (Paper delivered
> at the American Library Association annual midsummer conference, Chicago,
> July, 1985).
>
> I then expanded and mounted it as an exhibition:  "Russica for the
> Harvard Library and Noah Webster: John Quincy Adams' contribution to
> Russian studies in the United States" (Exhibition, Widener Library, Harvard
> University, November, 1987--coinciding with the AAASS Annual Convention,
> Boston, Nov. 4-6; and again with revisions in January, 1993 as "Opening a
> window on Russia: John Quincy Adams' contribution to Russian studies in the
> United States").
> Adams' contributions to Harvard and Webster served as a significant early
> contribution to Russian studies in the U.S.  I trust my resulting article
> will appear before too much longer.
>
> Hugh Olmsted
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> *From: *"Alexey Vdovin" <alexey.vdovin1985 at GMAIL.COM>
> *To: *SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> *Sent: *Saturday, August 24, 2013 1:48:31 PM
> *Subject: *[SEELANGS] a history of slavic studies
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> could you suggest any appropriate books / articles/ handbooks on the
> history of slavic linguistics / slavic studies (история русистики) in
> Russia and the West (esp. in the 19 cent.).
> Thank you.
> With best,
>
> --
> Alexey Vdovin / Алексей Вдовин, PhD
> доцент факультета филологии,
> Национальный исследовательский университет
> "Высшая школа экономики", Москва
> http://www.hse.ru/org/persons/61713299
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Алексей Вдовин, PhD
доцент факультета филологии,
Национальный исследовательский университет
"Высшая школа экономики", Москва
http://www.hse.ru/org/persons/61713299

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