title: From Prague to New Haven
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metadata.value: Tribunskii, Pavel A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-07-11T19:31:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-07-11T19:31:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-06
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metadata.value: Tribunskii P. A. From Prague to New Haven. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2024, vol. 69, issue 2, pp. 321–334. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.205 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.205
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45736
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article explores one of the turning points in the biography of the historian Georgy Vladimirovich
  Vernadsky (1887–1973) — his appointment at Yale University. After fleeing Russia,
  G. V. Vernadsky and his wife settled in Czechoslovakia. From time to time Vernadsky received
  offers to move from Europe to the United States, but they did not lead to any results. His
  change of educational institution, country, and continent in 1927 is a vivid example of the academic
  mobility of a Russian scholar abroad. In the scholarship, the reasons and circumstances
  of his moving to the USA are, as a rule, examined on the basis of subjective and not always
  reliable sources — on memoirs and letters. This article for the first time refers to university
  records to reconstruct the facts of the appointment. Vernadsky’s case is considered within the
  corporate history of Yale University and within the context of the development of Russian
  studies. Yale was among the few American Universities where “Russian” subjects were introduced
  in the late 1890s. The combination of a number of factors — an increasing interest in
  the Russian studies in the West in the 1920s, financial resources and ambitions of officials at
  Yale University and the influence of the member of the department of History M. I. Rostovtzef,
  whose protégé G. V. Vernadsky was, made his appointment feasible. University officials assumed
  that Vernadsky, in addition to teaching, would compile a systematic list of Russian
  books for acquisition by the library, and prepare a textbook on Russian history. However, an
  interest in Russia at Yale in the 1920s turned out to be short-lived. Vernadsky had held the
  same temporary position, which he was offered when he came to Yale in 1927, for almost
  19 years. He remained the only lecturer of “Russian” courses until the 1940s.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The work was supported by Alexander M. and Christina Schenker Fellowship (Beinecke Rare Book
  and Manuscript Library, Yale University).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 69; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: G. V. Vernadsky
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: M. I. Rostovtzeff
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Yale University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: academic mobility
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian studies in the USA
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia Abroad
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: From Prague to New Haven
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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