Dmitry Likhachev Totally Explained

Everything about Dmitry Likhachev totally explained

Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov (also Dmitri Likhachev or Likhachyov;, St. Petersburg – September 30, 1999, St. Petersburg) was an outstanding Russian scholar who was considered the world's foremost expert in Old Russian language and literature. He has been revered as "the last of old St Petersburgers", "a guardian of national culture", and "Russia's conscience".

Biography

Likhachov graduated in 1928 from the Leningrad University. In the same year, he was arrested for his speech deploring the Bolshevik reform of Russian orthography. Deported to the Solovki Special Purpose Camp, he spent 5 years studying the "criminal folklore" as he termed it. Likhachov returned to Leningrad unbroken, and started his spectacular scholarly career in the Pushkin House (as the Russian Literature Institute is known), which spanned more than 60 years and saw the publication of more than 500 scholarly works. Likhachov didn't stop his work even during the Siege of Leningrad. He believed that Russia was an integral and indivisible part of European civilization, contrary to "Euroasiatic" views of Russia popular with Lev Gumilev, Boris Rybakov, and many other contemporaries.
In 1953, Likhachov was admitted into the Soviet Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member. He defended Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and other dissidents during their persecution by Soviet authorities. In 1986, he was elected the first President of the Russian Cultural Fund. In his 80s and 90s, he became more of a public figure, serving as an informal advisor to St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak and President Boris Yeltsin. In 1993, he became the first person to be named an Honorary Citizen of St Petersburg. He also presided over the commission set up to prepare for Alexander Pushkin's tercentenary. A year before his death, Likhachov became the very first recipient of the reinstated Order of St. Andrew. The Likhachov Philanthropic Fund

was set up by his daughter and George Soros in 2001.

Legacy

A minor planet 2877 Likhachev discovered in 1969 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh is named after him.

Honours

1952 - Stalin Prize
1963 - Elected to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1964 - Honorary doctorate of the Torun University
1964 - Honorary doctorate of the Oxford University
1966 - Order of the Red Banner of Labor
1968 - Elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences
1970 - Elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences
1964 - Honorary doctorate of the Edinburgh University
1969 - USSR State Prize
1972 - Elected to the Serbian Academy of Sciences
1973 - Elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1983 - Honorary doctorate of the University of Bordeaux
1983 - Honorary doctorate of the University of Zurich
1985 - Honorary doctorate of the Budapest University
1986 - Hero of Socialist Labor
1987 - Elected to the Lincean Academy
1988 - Honorary doctorate of the Gottingen University
1991 - Honorary doctorate of the Charles University
1992 - Honorary doctorate of the University of Siena
1993 - Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993 - Lomonosov Gold Medal
1995 - Elected to the American Philosophical Society
1998 - Order of St. Andrew
2000 - Russian State Prize

Main Works

1942 - Defense of Old Russian Towns

1945 - National Self-Consciousness of Ancient Rus

1947 - Russian Chronicles and Their Cultural Significance

1950 - The Tale of Bygone Years (2 volumes)

1952 - Genesis of the Tale of Igor's Campaign

1955 - The Lay of Igor's Campaign

1958 - Human Dimension of the Old Russian Literature

1962 - Russian Culture at the Times of Andrei Rublev and Epiphanius the Wise

1962 - Textology

1967 - Poetics of Old Russian Literature

1971 - Artistic Heritage of Ancient Rus in Our Time

1973 - Development of Old Russian Literature: the Epochs and Styles

1975 - Great Heritage: Classic Works of Old Russian Literature

1976 - Laughing World of Ancient Rus

1978 - The Tale of Igor's Campaign and Culture of That Time

1981 - Russian Notes

1981 - Literature - Reality - Literature

1982 - The Poetry of Gardens

1985 - Letters about the Kind and Beautiful

1987 - Selected Works, in Three Volumes

1989 - From the Note-Books of Various Years

1992 - Russian Art from the Antiquity to Avantgarde

1995 - Reminiscences

1996 - Essays on the Philosophy of Artistic Creativity

1997 - Articles on Intelligentsia

1999 - Meditations about Russia

2000 - Essays on Russian CultureFurther Information

Get more info on 'Dmitry Likhachev'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://dmitry_likhachev.totallyexplained.com">Dmitry Likhachev Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.