Problems and Perspectives of Study of the Scientific Heritage of Professor Liubomirov

Abstract

The article presents an overview of the biography and scientific heritage of a graduate of St. Petersburg University, a student of S. F. Platonov, and an outstanding Russian historian of the first half of the 20th century, P. G. Liubomirov. Based on the analysis of the works and materials of the personal archive of the scientist, it was shown that the sphere of scientific interests of P. G. Liubomirov included several directions. A great contribution was made by scientists in the study of the socio-economic history of the Low Volga region in the 17th – 19th centuries, the history of social thought in Russia in the 18th century. In regional scientific periodicals in the 1920–1930s a series of articles by P. G. Liubomirov on these topics was published. Many works of the scientist were not published and are kept in his archive as manuscripts. In the 1930s – 1940s a collective of his students and colleagues did a large amount of work on publishing of his works. However, due to the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War and ideological campaigns of the turn of the 1940–1950s this work has not been completed. Today, much of the scientific heritage of P. G. Liubomirov remains unpublished and unknown to historians. The works of the historian has not lost their scientific significance to the present. In this regard, it is necessary to resume work on the study and publication of the works of P. G. Liubomirov, which was interrupted in the 1950s.

Keywords:

P. G. Liubomirov, the history of Russia of the 17th – 19th centuries, the history of the Time of Troubles, the history of Russian industry in the 18th century, the history of the Low Volga region, the social thought of Russia of the 18th century