История Московского университета

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The first edition of this book was prepared for the 250th anniversary of Moscow University in 2005. The book presents publications of the first university newspaper “Moskovskie Vedomosti” (Moscow Gazette), published from 1756 to 1917, which contain a significant part of the history of Moscow University. In the second half of the 18th century. it was the only newspaper in Moscow. “Moskovskie Vedomosti” (Moscow Gazette) was prepared by professors and students of Moscow University, printed at the university printing house, and sold in the university bookstore. Gazetny Lane in Moscow is named so because the printing house, where the latest issues of the newspaper Moskovskie Vedomosti were distributed to subscribers, was located there at the beginning of the 19th century.

The book is addressed to everyone who is interested in the history of higher education in Russia and the history of Moscow University.

Published in accordance with the publishing programme dedicated to the 270th anniversary of Moscow University. The book contains information about teachers, graduate students and students of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University who died in the Great Patriotic War, their biographies are given in alphabetical order, and portrait photographs are provided, if any could be found. Biographies are additionally illustrated with individual and group photographs of the war years, or documents that reflect the fate of the heroic defenders of the Motherland. In preparing the publication, documents from several state archives were studied, where personal files of a number of the book’s heroes were found, as well as other documents containing biographical information about personalities. Some information was reported by their descendants. The appendix contains lists of scientific works of young philosophers who died at the front and lists of literature about them.

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