Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevskii Papers, 1873-1950

Collection context

Creator:
Kovalevskiĭ, M. M. (Maksim Maksimovich), 1851-1916, Lavrov, P. L. (Petr Lavrovich), 1823-1900, Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904, Mili︠u︡kov, P. N. (Pavel Nikolaevich), 1859-1943, Struve, Petr Berngardovich, 1870-1944, Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883, and Mikhaĭlovskiĭ, N. K. (Nikolaĭ Konstantinovich), 1842-1904
Extent:
400 items (4 boxes; 1 oversized folder)
Language:
Russian .
Scope and content:

The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, and printed materials. Correspondence includes 82 letters from Maksim Kovalevskiĭ to the mathematician Sofii︠a︡ Kovalevskai︠a︡; 69 letters from Petr Lavrov to Kovalevskiĭ; and letters to Kovalevskiĭ from Anton Chekhov (typed copies), Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovskiĭ, Pavel Mili︠u︡kov, Petr Struve, and Ivan Turgenev (typed copy). Manuscripts consist of Kovalevskiĭ's handwritten memoirs, with a typed copy and some printed excerpts. Documents consist of Kovalevskiĭ's diplomas from the University of Berlin (1873), the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences (1899), and the Deputazione Veneta di Storia Patria (1901).

Biographical / historical:

A historian and sociologist, Kovalevskiĭ taught in western Europe as well as Russia. His major works included "Pervobytnoe pravo" (1886) and"Proiskhozhdenie sovremennoĭ demokratii" (1895-1899). Kovalevskiĭ served in the State Duma and the State Council, and from 1909 was the publisher of "Vestnik Evropy.".

Access and use

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