Adrianova-Peretz Varvara

Adrianova-Peretz Varvara (1888–1972) – philologist, medievalist, specialist in the Old Russian literature, folklore, and hagiography. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. (1943), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian S.S.R (1926), Doctor in Philology, Professor.

In her works on the Old Russian didactic literature, she put a special attention to the problems of religious and philosophical anthropology. Studies by A-P in the sphere of the analyses of satirical and democratic literature of the seventeenth century are of great importance for understanding the traditions of Russian free thinking. She was a disciple of V.N. Perez (1870 – 1935), an outstanding researcher of Slavic folklore, philologist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences, repressed in 1934, died in exile in Saratov. In 1906 – 1908, A-P studied at the Historical and Philological Faculty of the High Female Courses in Kiev. In 1907, her report “Philology, and Its Methods” opened the first session of the “Seminars in Russian Philology” under the supervision of Prof. V.N. Perez; soon they got married. In 1912, she received the external degree of the Historical and Philological Faculty of the Kievan St Vladimir’s Imperial University; in 1914, she passed there through the Master Grade exams. A-P was one of the two first women who taught philology at the Kievan University. In 1914, together with V.N. Perez, who had been elected Academician of the Academy of Sciences, she moved to St. Petersburg. In 1917, she wrote the Master Thesis ‘The Life of St Alexis, a Man of God, in the Old Russian Literature, and Folk Narration’ (Petrograd, 1917), that provided her the Lomonosov Award of the Academy of Sciences. Since 1917, she taught at various high schools of Petrograd/Leningrad: at the First Petrograd Teachers-Training Institute (1917–1923) (nowadays the Russian State Herzen Teachers-Training University), at the State Institute of the Art History (1921-1930); worked as a senior researcher, and Head of the Sector of the Old Russian Literature at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinsky Dom) of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. (1934–1954). In 1960-s, at the Philological Faculty of the Leningrad State University, she supervised a seminar, where traditions of the seminar of V.N. Perez were restored. Up to the end of her life, A-P edited publications of manuscripts, taking the work for “an excellent remedy, which although does not heal, but protects from sliding to the bottom of illness” (letter to M.N. Tikhomirov from May 18, 1958).

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Gospel of Thomas in Old Ukrainian Literature. — Izvestiya Ac. of Sc, ORYaS, 1909, vol. 14, book 2, pp. 1-47. (in Rus.)
On the Text of the ‘Aristotle Gates’. — Russky Filolog. Vestnik. (Warsaw), 1911, vol. 66, [No 3-4], pp. 1—14. (in Rus.)
On the History of the Legend on Wandering Jew in Old Russian Literature. — Izvestiya Ac. of Sc, ORYaS, 1915, vol. 20, book 3, pp. 217—232. (in Rus.)
The Life of St Alexis, a Man of God, in the Old Russian Literature, and Folk Narration. Petrograd, Ya. Bashmakov Typ., 1917, VIII, 518 p., 1 incl. p. with a table. (in Rus.)
From the History of Russian Hagiography of the Sixteenth Century. — In: Sertum bibliogicum in Honour of the President of the Russian Bibliological Society, Prof. А. I. Malein. Petersburg, Gosizdat, 1922, pp. 146—154. (in Rus.)
Aesop’s Fables in Russian Humouristic Literature of the Eighteenth Century. — Izvestiya Ac. of Sc. U.S.S.R., ORYaS, 1929, vol. 2, book 2, pp. 377—400. (in Rus.)
Symbolism of the Freud’s Dreams in the Light of Russian Riddles. — In: Ac. of Sc. U.S.S.R. to Acad. N. Ya. Marr. XLV. Moscow—Leningrad, Ac. of Sc. U.S.S.R., 1935, pp. 497—505. (in Rus.)
Essays on the History of Russian Satiric Literature of the Seventeenth Century. — TODRL, 1935, т. 2, с. 215—282. (in Rus.)
Essays on the Poetic Style of Old Russia. Moscow—Leningrad, Ac. of Sc. U.S.S.R., 1947, 188 p. (in Rus.)
Folk Poetic Creativity of the Time of Peasants and Citizens’ Uprisings of the Seventeenth Century. — In: Russian Folk Poetic Creativity. Vol. 1. Essays on the History of Russian Folk Poetic Creativity of the Tenth — Early Eighteenth Centuries. Leningrad, Ac. of Sc. U.S.S.R., 1953, pp. 348—477, ill. [with B. N. Putilov]. (in Rus.)
On the Problem of Depicting of ‘Inner’ Man in Russian Literature of the Eleventh — Fourteenth Centuries. // Issues of Studying Russian Literature of the Eleventh — Twentieth Centuries. Moscow—Leningrad, 1958. (in Rus.)
Russian Democratic Satire of the Seveteenth Century. Publication of texts, an article, and comments by V. P. Adrianova-Peretz. Moscow—Leningrad, Ac. of Sc. U.S.S.R., 1954, 292 p., ill. (in Rus.)
A Man in the Didactic Literature of Old Russia // TODRL. Leningrad, 1972. Vol. 27: The History of Genders in Russian Literature of the Tenth — Eighteenth Centuries. (in Rus.)
Old Russian Literature and Folklore. Moscow., 1974 (in Rus.)

Bibliography

Bibliography comp. by R. I. Goryacheva. Moscow, 1963. (Materials for Bio-Bibliography of Researchers of the U.S.S.R. Seria of Literature and Language; Iss. 4); Droblenkova N. F. The
List of Published Works by the Corresponding Member of the Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R. V. P. Adrianova-Peretz for 1957-1968. // TODRL. Leningrad, 1969. Vol. 24, p. 15-20. (in Rus.)

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V. P. Adrianova-Peretz / Introduction by. D. S. Likhachev;
Bibliography comp. by R. I. Goryacheva. Moscow, 1963. (Materials for Bio-Bibliography of Researchers of the U.S.S.R. Seria of Literature and Language; Iss. 4) (in Rus.);
Droblenkova N. F., Dmitriev L. А., Likhachev D. S., Panchenko А. M. V. P. Adrianova-Peretz (obituary) // Izvestiya Ac. of Sc. U.S.S.R., ORYaS. 1973. Vol. 32, Iss. 1, pp. 100-103 (in Rus.);
Kagan M. D. A Tradition of Studying of Old Russian Literature in the Field of Philology // Russkaya Literatura. 1973, No 4, pp. 237-240 (in Rus.);
Byaly G. А. V. P. Adrianova-Peretz // TODRL. Leningrad, 1974. Vol. 29, pp. 44-46 (in Rus.);
Adrianova О. N., Adrianova L. N. Memories on Varvara Pavlovna Adrianova-Peretz // TODRL. Leningrad, 1992. Vol. 45, pp. 9-11 (in Rus.);
Proceedings of the Conference by the 100th Anniversary of the Corresponding Member of the Ac. of Sc. Of the U.S.S.R. Varvara Pavlovna Adrianova-Peretz // TODRL. St. Petersburg, Nauka, 1992. Vol. 45, pp. 5–43. (in Rus.)

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