The archive activities of the Mikhail Alexandrovich Polievktov in 1920-1930-s.

The study, based on archival materials introduced into scholarly circulation for the first time, shows the archival efforts of the eminent Russian historian-caucasus expert M.A. Polievktov (1872-1942) during the "tiflis period" of scientific invention (1920-1942). It is stated in the scientific literature that the scientist's archiving activity has not yet become a research subject. The author intends to disclose similar characteristics of this behavior in the 1920s and 1940s. The article demonstrates that the name of M.A. Polievktov, a representative of the St.Petersburg historian school, is significantly linked with the construction of historial archives of the Caucasus in Georgia (from 1924 s.), training of specialists in archiving, setting up a course on archiving M.A. Polievktov developed the problems of Caucasian archeography, uncovered a number of archaeological materials on Georgian history and Russian-Geogian ties, and introduced them into scholarly circulation. Documents relating to the origins of diplomatic ties between Georgia and Russia were discovered in the Central Archives of the USSR as a result of scientific visits arranged by the Central Archives of the SSR of Georgia. M.A. Polievktov's archiving activities occurred during a critical juncture in the development of Soviet archival research, as the internal political struggle worsened and historical science became more ideologically oriented. All of this was reflected in the fate of the scientist and architect. During the fifth, he was subjected to discrimination against dissidents («kondrativism») and was temporarily barred from working at the SSR of Georgia's Central Archive.

The article, for the first time, depicts this most important episode in the life of the scientist-archivist through the publishing of excerpts from archive materials from the "case of M.A. Polievktov." They exhibit the characteristics of Georgian archival growth between 1920 and 1930. M.A. Polievktov's archival labor was an important part of his life, and it had a lasting impression on Caucasian historiography.

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