Peretz Vladimir

Peretz Vladimir (1870–1935) – philologist, paleographer, historian of literature, folklorist, specialist in source studies.

In 1893, he graduated from the St. Petersburg University; in 1896-1903, he worked there as Ass. Docent.

In 1900, he defended his Master thesis, and in 1902 – his Doctor thesis; they were published as series of ‘Historical and Literary Research’ in three volumes.

In 1903, he became Ass. Professor; in 1903-1904, he was Full Professor of the Chair of Russian Language and Literature of the Historical and Philological Faculty of the Kievan St Vladimir University; since 1907, he supervised there the Seminar in Russian Philology. In 1914-1917, he was Professor of the Saratov University; in 1914-1927, he was Ass. Professor of the St. Petersburg/Leningrad University.

Laureate of the Macarius Award (1900), and Small Lomonosov Award (1903).

Academician of the Ac. of Sc. (1914; excluded on June 17, 1934; restored on March 22, 1990). Academician of the Ac. of Sc. of the Ukrainian Ac. of Sc. (1919).

He was arrested on April 11, 1934, in Leningrad in the frames of the so called ‘Affair of the Russian national Party’. On June 16, 1934, he was sent to exile to Saratov for three years, where he died on September 24, 1935. He was buries on one of the oldest cemeteries of the city – the Voskresenskoe Cemetery. Rehabilitated in 1957.

Compositions

Contemporary Russian Folk Song. St. Petersburg, 1893. (in Rus.)
Puppet Show in Rus’: Historical Survey. St. Petersburg, 1895. (in Rus.)
Verses of Skomorokh from a manuscript of the Eighteenth Century. 1898. (in Rus.)
Small Russian Verses and Songs Fixed in the Sixteenth – Eighteenth Centuries. St. Petersburg, 1899. (in Rus.)
Historical and Literary Research and Materials. Vol. I: From the History of Russian Song. St. Petersburg, F. Weisberg and P. Gershunin Typography, 1900. (in Rus.)
Historical and Literary Research and Materials. Vol. II. From the History of Old Russian Tale. Rumours and Talks about Patriarch Nikon in Depiction of Writers of the Seventeenth – Eighteenth Centuries. St. Petersburg, F. Weisberg and P. Gershunin Typography, 1900. (in Rus.)
Historical and Literary Research and Materials. Vol. III. From the History of the Evolution of Russian Poetry of the Eighteenth Century. St. Petersburg, F. Weisberg and P. Gershunin Typography, 1902. (in Rus.)
Essays in the Old Small Russian Poetry. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc., 1903. (in Rus.)
Monuments of Russian Drama of the Epoch of Peter the Great. St. Petersburg, 1903. (in Rus.)
New Works on the Source Studies for the Old Russian Literature and Paleography: Critical and Bibliographical Survey. St. Petersburg, 1905-1908. (in Rus.)
Tale on Three Kings-Magician in the West-Russian Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc., 1903. (in Rus.)
On the History of Polish and Russian Folk Theatre. Iss. 1-14. St. Petersburg, 1905-1909
Essays on the History of Poetic Style in Russia: the Epoch of Peter the Great and Early Eighteenth Century // ZhMNP. 1905, October, pp. 345—404; 1906, June, pp. 382—408. (in Rus.)
A Short Essay on Methodology of History of Russian Literature. Petrograd, 1922. (in Rus.)
The Old Theatre in Russia in the Seventeenth — Eighteenth Centuries. Petrograd, 1923. (in Rus.)
On Studying the Tale of the Prince Igor Campaign. Leningrad, 1926. (in Rus.)
Research and Materials on the History of Old Ukrainian Literature of the Sixteenth – Eighteenth Centuries. Moscow – Leningrad, 1962. (in Rus.)

About him

Peretz Vladimir Nickolaevich // Encyclopedic Lexicon of Brockhaus and Ephrone, in 86 vol. St. Petersburg, 1890 – 1907. (in Rus.)
Seminar in Russian Philology of Acad. V. N. Peretz: 1907‒1927. Leningrad, 1929. (in Rus.)
Ziuzin А. V. Peretz Vladimir Nickolaevich // Philologists of the Saratov University, 1917– 2009: Materials for the Biographical Lexicon. Saratov University, 2010, pp. 178– 188. (in Rus.)

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