Likhachev D.S., (1906-1999), literary historian

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LIKHACHEV Dmitry Sergeevich (1906 - 1999, St. Petersburg), philologist and cultural historian, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1970), Hero of Socialist Labor (1986), Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg (1993, the first to be granted the title after it had been restored). Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the State Leningrad University in 1928. From 1928 to 1932, he was subjected to political persecution and deported to the Solovki camp on the Solovetskie Islands on the White Baltic Sea Canal. Upon returning to Leningrad, he worked as a proof-reader at various Leningrad publishing houses until 1937. In 1954, he joined the staff of the Institute of Russian Literature, also known as the Pushkin House, where he headed the department of Old Russian Literature. From 1946 to 1953, he also taught at the State Leningrad University. He spent the siege winter of 1941/42 in the city, working at the Institute of Russian Literature, and then was evacuated to Kazan, where he stayed until 1944. In 1961-63 and 1987-89, Likhachev was a deputy of the Leningrad City Soviet, and was elected the People"s Deputy of the USSR in 1989. From 1986 to 1991, he was Chairman of the Management Board of the Soviet Cultural Fund, and directed the Russian International Cultural Fund (1991-94), which he helped establish. He was a member of the Union of Writers (1956), and a fellow, associate or honorary doctor of many foreign academies and universities. He published over 600 academic papers and hundreds of articles, many of which deal with the historical and cultural monuments in St. Petersburg. One of the founders of the St. Petersburg Textological Academic School for the Study of Old Russian Literature. Likhachev especially appreciated the European aspect of St. Petersburg culture and, aside from defending certain historical monuments, stood up for following Peter the Great"s general plans for the city. In this spirit he reconstructed the city"s early 20th century cultural topography. His book, Memoirs, published in St. Petersburg in 1995, holds special significance for the city"s history. The scholar"s awards include the Stalin Prize (1952), the State Prize of the USSR (1969), and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1993). In 1917-28 Likhachev lived at 27 Oranienbaumskaya Street, in 1932-42 he lived at 9 Lakhtinskaya Street, and then moved to 35 Baskov Lane, where he lived until 1964. His last address, from 1964 on, was 34 Second Murinsky Avenue (memorial plaque installed). He was buried at the Komarovskoe Cemetery. The Likhachev"s name was given to school № 47 of the Petrogradsky District.

References: Дмитрий Сергеевич Лихачев. 3-е изд., доп. М., 1989. (Материалы к биобиблиогр. ученых СССР. Сер. лит.и яз.; Вып. 17); К 90-летию академика Дмитрия Сергеевича Лихачева // Тр. Отд. древнерус. литературы / Ин-т рус. лит. (Пушкинский дом) РАН. СПб., 1997. Т. 50. С. 3-82; Дмитрий Лихачев и его эпоха: Воспоминания. Эссе. Документы. Фотографии. СПб., 2002.

A. G. Bobrov. Likhachev Dmitry Sergeevich
Peter I, Emperor
Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich
2nd Murinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 44
Baskov Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 35
Lakhtinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Дмитрий Сергеевич Лихачев. 3-е изд., доп. М., 1989
К 90-летию академика Дмитрия Сергеевича Лихачева // Тр. Отд. древнерус. литературы / Ин-т рус. лит. (Пушкинский дом) РАН. СПб., 1997
Дмитрий Лихачев и его эпоха: Воспоминания. Эссе. Документы. Фотографии. СПб., 2002 Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg
Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of
Siege of 1941-44
Komorovskoe Cemetery
1999