Yefim Karsky: important events of life (biographical timeline)

Yefim Fyodorovich Karsky
(1861-1931)

Philologist-Slavist, folklorist, palaeographer, ethnographer.
Prominent researcher of the culture of the Belarusian people, the language and literature of other Slavonic peoples. Founder of Belarusian scholarly linguistics and literary studies. Author of over 700 scholarly papers in Belarusian, Russian and Slavonic studies, including fundamental works in dialectology, history of Belarusian language and literature, folklore, ethnography, Old-Russian palaeography etc. His fundamental work «Belarusians» is the highest achievement of European Slavonic studies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a real encyclopaedia in the study of Belarusian language, literature and culture. 

Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg (from 1916, correspondent member from 1901), the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917), the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1925), a full member of the Institute of Belarusian Culture (later the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, 1922) and the Czech Academy of Sciences (1929).


Major events of life and work

village of Lasha, Grodno district, Grodno province, Russian Empire (1861-1862)
(now Grodno district, Grodno region, Republic of Belarus)

– Yefim Karsky was born on 1 January 1861 (20 December 1860, Old Style).
Father Fyodor Nikolayevich Novitsky – psalmist at Lasha Church and teacher in a folk school at Lasha. Mother Magdalina Onufrievna Karskaya – daughter of a clergyman. Karsky was recorded under the surname of his mother as his parents’ marriage had not yet been registered.

village of Bytcha, Borisov district, Minsk province (1862-1866)

– spent his early childhood in the village of Bytcha where his father served in the church

village of Yatra (later Berezovets), Novogrudok district, Minsk province (1866-1871)

– childhood, primary education in a folk school in the village of Yatra where his father served in the church

Minsk (1871-1881)

– 1871-1877 – studies at Minsk Theological School
– 1877-1881 – studies at Minsk Theological Seminary (under his father’s name of Novitsky)

Nezhin, Chernigov province (1881-1885)

– August 1881 – June 1885 – studies at Nezhin Historical-Philological College where he learned Slavonic-Russian philology
– 1883-1885 – first papers and publications in scholarly magazines

Vilna (now Vilnius, 1885-1893)

– 1885-1893 – teacher of the Russian and Old Slavonic languages and Russian literature at Vilna Gymnasium  No. 2
1886
– 1886 – publication in Moscow of the research paper «Review of the sounds and forms of the Belarusian language»
– 1886 – publication in Kiev of the research paper «The Belarusian collection of E. Romanov» in the series «Two new sources in the study of Belarusian dialects»
– 1886, 21 August – speech at the annual meeting at Vilna Gymnasium  No. 2 «About the so-called barbarisms in the Russian language»
1887
– 1887, 12 July – marriage to a clergyman’s daughter Sofia Nikolayevna Stepurzhinskaya
– 1887, October – publication in Saint Petersburg of the research paper «P. Shein’s materials for the study of the daily life and language of the Russian population in the North-Western Region», Vol. 1, Part 1 in the series «Two new sources in the study of Belarusian dialects»
1888
– 1888 – publication in Vilna of a textbook for secondary educational institutions «The grammar of the Old Church Slavonic language compared with the Russian language» (the book had 19 editions)
1889
– 1889, August – publication in Warsaw of the research paper «About the suffixes in the Russian words  like…» (one of the first linguistic works dedicated to the historical analysis of morphology and word formation in the Russian language)
– 1889 – recorded folklore works «Belarusian songs in the village of Novosyolki-Zatrokskne, Troki district, Vilna province»
1890
– 1890, November – publication in Saint Petersburg of the research paper «P. Shein’s materials for the study of the daily life and language of the Russian population in the North-Western Region», Vol. 1, Part 2 in the series «Two new sources in the study of Belarusian dialects»
1891
– 1891, 17 September – successfully passed the master’s degree examination at the faculty of history and philology of the Imperial University of Warsaw
– 1891, 22 September – speech at the annual meeting at Vilna Gymnasiums No. 1 and No. 2 «In memory of M.Yu. Lermontov»
1892
– publication in Vilna of the research paper «On the study of the Old Western-Russian dialect. Bibliographical essay»

Warsaw (1893-1915)
1893
– 1893, 27 February – an inaugural lecture on the history of Russian literary language at the Imperial University of Warsaw
– 1893 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Dictionary of the Russian language compiled by the Academy of Sciences. Issue 2, 1892. Explanations concerning the phonetics and morphology»
– 1893 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the research paper «Materials for the study of the daily life and language of the Russian population in the North-Western Region collected and arranged by P.V. Shein», Vol. 2 in the series «Two new sources in the study of Belarusian dialects»
– 1893, August – participation at the 9th Archaeological Congress in Vilna
– 1893, August – publication of the study «Two monuments of the Old Western-Russian dialect. 1) Lutheran Catechesis of 1562 and 2) Catholic Catechesis of 1585»
– 1893 – publication in Warsaw of the study «On the history of sounds and forms of the Belarusian talk»
– 1893, 24 October – received a master’s degree in Russian language and literature from the University of Kiev for his papers «On the history of sounds and forms of the Belarusian talk» and «A review of sounds and forms of the Belarusian talk» (the first academic dissertation in Belarusian linguistics)
– 1893, 28 October – appointed as a teacher of the Russian language and subsequently as Associate Professor in the Department of Russian and Church Slavonic Languages, the Faculty of History and Philology at the Imperial University of Warsaw 
– 1893 – publication in Vilna of the article «What is the Old Western-Russian dialect?»
1894
– 1894, January – awarded the Big Gold Medal for his works in Belarusian ethnography by the Russian Geographical Society  
– 1894, 26 June – appointed as Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Russian and Church Slavonic Languages and History of Russian Literature
– 1894 – publication in Warsaw of the study «About the language of the so-called Lithuanian chronicles»
– 1894 – publication in Warsaw of the study «The Polish Psalter of Nikolay Rey»
1895
– 1895, August – worked in the libraries of Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Vilna to study paleographic and linguistic features of written monuments
– 1895 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Basic characteristics of the script and language of Mstislav Gospel»
1896
– 1896 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Western-Russian translations of the Psalter in the 15th-17th centuries»
– 1896 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Certain unique features of the Belarusian dialect in Sokolka district, Grodno province»
– 1896 – elected as member of the Archeographical Commission of the Moscow Archeological Society for his scholarly achievements in the field of Old Slavonic and Old Russian languages
– 1896, 14 December – awarded a doctor’s degree in philology at the University of Moscow for his study «Western-Russian translations of the Psalter in the 15th-17th centuries»
1897
– 1897, 14 February – received an academic title of Ordinary Professor at the the Imperial University of Warsaw
– 1897 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the third part of «Programme for the collection of the basic features of the Belarusian dialect»
– 1897 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the research paper «From the lectures on the Slavonic Cyrillic paleography…»
– 1897 – publication in Warsaw of the study «What is the Old Western-Russian dialect?»
– 1897 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the study «The Western Russian collection of the 15th century in the Imperial Public Library, Q.1. №391. Palaeographic features, composition and language of the manuscript»
– 1897 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the study «А. Sobolevsky. The experience of Russian dialectology. Iss.1. The Great Russian and Belarusian dialects»
– 1897 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the study «Materials for the study of Belarusian talks»
1898-1900
– trips to the provinces of Grodno, Vilna and Minsk to study folk dialects
1898
– 1898, 15 April – elected as correspondent member of the Saint Petersburg Society of Amateurs of Old Written Texts
– 1898, summer – academic studies in the Moscow Public Museum and Rumyantsev Museum and the libraries of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra to study the written sources for the history of Slavonic languages and paleography
-1898, December – awarded the P.N. Batyushkov Gold Medal from the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg for his critical review of P.V. Shein’s work «Materials for the study of the daily life and language of the Russian population in the North-Western Region»
– 1898 – publication in Warsaw of the study «The West Russian legend about the prophetess Sibyl in the 14th century manuscript. The text, composition and language of the legend»
– 1898 – publication in Warsaw of the study «A comment on the diphthongs of the folk speech in the villages of Baslovtsy and Podlesye, Slutsk district, Minsk province»
– 1898 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the study «Materials for the study of Belarusian talks»
1899
– 1899, 26 May – speech at the solemn meeting of the Imperial University of Warsaw «About the influence of A.S. Pushkin’s poetic works on the development of Russian literary language»
– 1899 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Features of the script and language of the 15th-century manuscript anthology known as Avraamka’s Chronicle»
– 1899 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the study «Report on the characteristic features of the dialect spoken in Minsk province, Slutsk district, the villages of Baslovtsy and Polesye»
– 1899 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the study «Materials for the study of the daily life and language of the Russian population in the North-Western Region collected and arranged by P.V. Shein»
– 1899 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the study «Materials for the study of Belarusian talks»
1901
– 1901 – elected as correspondent member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg in the department of Russian language and literature
– 1901 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Examples of the Slavonic Cyrillic script in the 10th to the 17th centuries»
– 1901 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Review of the Slavonic Cyrillic palaeography»
– 1901, 29 December – awarded the Small Lomonosov Prize by the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg for his books «Examples of the Slavonic Cyrillic script in the 10th to the 17th centuries» and «Review of the Slavonic Cyrillic palaeography»
– 1901 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Notes on the Belarusian dialects»
1902
– 1902, August – participation at the 12th Archaeological Congress in Kharkov with a report on the Belarusian ethnography
– 1902 – awarded the Gold P.N. Batyushkov Medal by the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg for his analysis of  E.P. Romanov’s ethnographic works
– 1902 – appointed as Dean of the Faculty of History and Philology at the Imperial University of Warsaw
– 1902 – publication in Warsaw of the study «About the influence of the Lithuanian and Latvian languages on the Belarusian dialect. – Collection of papers dedicated to academician F.F. Fortumatov»
– 1902 – publication in Mogilev of the article «About the ethnographic map of the Belarusian tribe»
1903
– 1903, April – participation in the preliminary committee for organizing the International Congress of Slavists-Philologists in Saint Petersburg
– 1903, Summer – expedition to Belarus to locate the ethnographic borders of the Belarusian nation and language and to explore the characteristic features of the Belarusian speech in the area bordering the Ukrainian and Polish speech
– 1903 – publication in Warsaw of the first volume of his major work «Belarusians. Introduction to the study of the language and folk literature»; contains the ethnographic map of the Belarusian tribe, in building which the language (Belarusian dialect) was used as an exclusive sign to make distinctions between the Belarusians and other peoples, the linguistic features of the residents were investigated in 114 places, as well as the material of folk and scholarly works 
1904
– 1904 – publication of the study «Undolsky sheets, a fragment of the Cyrillic Gospel of the 11th century»
– 1904 – publication in Kiev of the study «From the Russian dialectology…. – Collected writings dedicated to T.D. Florinsky»
– 1904 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the study «Analysis of E.P. Romanov’s historical-ethnographic works on the North-Western Region released in 1898-1901»
– 1904 – publication in Warsaw of the study «On the issue of the reform of the Russian orthography»
1905
– 1905, 1 January – appointed as Chief Editor of the «Russian Philological Bulletin» (the major journal of philology in the pre-Revolution period)
– 1905, 6 September – appointed as Rector of the Imperial University of Warsaw (the first elected rector of the university)
– 1905 – publication in Saint Petersburg of the study «On the issue of the folk dialect in Bryansk district, Oryol province»
– 1905 – publication in Moscow of the study «On the issue of the distribution of Russian dialects»
– 1905 – publication in Warsaw of the study «On the issue of the borders of Belarusian dialects. About the article by academician A.I. Sobolevsky…»
– 1905 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Russian literary language»
– 1905 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Report on the trip to Belarus in the summer of 1903»
1906
– 1906, February – a trip to the Ministry of Public Education in Saint Petersburg to settle the urgent questions at the Imperial University of Warsaw that arose in connection with the revolutionary events 
– 1906, May – offered to head the department of Russian language and literature at the University of Moscow
– 1906, spring – worked in the archives of the Moscow Society of Russian History and Antiquities
– 1906 – publication in Warsaw of the study «The Little Russian Lucidarius according to the 17th-century manuscript. The text, composition and language»
 1908
– 1908 – reelected for a three year term as Rector of the Imperial University of Warsaw
– 1908 – publication in Warsaw of the first part of the second volume of his fundamental work «Belarusians. The language of the Belarusian tribe. Historical outline of the sounds of the Belarusian dialect»
1909
– 1909 – publication in Warsaw of the study «The importance of Gogol in the history of Russian literary language»
– 1909, December – participation in the ceremonial on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the University of Saratov
1910
– 1910 – publication in Warsaw of the study «On the use of foreign words in the Russian language»
– 1910 – awarded the P.N. Batyushkov Full Prize by the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg for the first volume and the first issue of the second volume of his work «Belarusians»
– 1910 – finished his work as Rector of the Imperial University of Warsaw, continued his teaching activities
1911
– 1911 – publication in Warsaw of the second part of the second volume of his fundamental work «Belarusians. The language of the Belarusian tribe. Historical outline of word formation and inflection in the Belarusian dialect»
– 1911, 13 November – speech «The importance of M.V. Lomonosov in the development of Russian literary language» during the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Russian scholar and writer at the Imperial University of Warsaw
1912
– 1912 – publication in Warsaw of the third part of the second volume of his fundamental work «Belarusians. The language of the Belarusian tribe. Syntax of the Belarusian dialect. Amendments and corrections»
1913
– 1913 – awarded the Akhmatov Academic Prize for his second volume of «Belarusians»
– 1913 – publication in Warsaw of a course of lectures «Reviews of the syntax of the Old Church Slavonic and Russian languages»
– 1913 – publication in Warsaw of the article «Two jubilees: I.I. Sreznevsky and Ya.K. Grot»
– 1913 – publication of two reviews of E.P. Romanov’s work «The archaeology of Russia’s North-Western Region» and «The Borisov Stone in the village of Vysoky Gorodets, Senno district, Mogilev province»
1914
– 1914, 5 March – elected as honorary member of the Historical-Philological Society at the University of Novorossiisk
– 1914 – publication in Warsaw of the study «The introduction of the Russian dialectology and the history of the Russian language in the secondary school. About the new programme for the teaching of the Russian language in the 4th Form»
– 1915 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Lectures on the history of the Russian language in 1914/1915 academic year»

Rostov-na-Donu (1915-1916)

– worked at the Imperial University of Warsaw, which moved to Rostov-na-Donu during the First World War

Petrograd (1916-1917)
1916
– 1916, 8 October – elected as ordinary academician by the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg in the department of Russian language and literature
– 1916 – publication in Moscow of the first part of the third volume of his fundamental work «Belarusians. Essays on the language and literature of the Belarusian tribe. Folk poetry»
– 1916 – publication in Warsaw of the study «Notes on the Belarusian dialect»
1917
– 1917 – completed his twelve-year work as Chief Editor of the «Russian Philological Bulletin»
– 1917 – received the title of Professor at Petrograd University
– 1917 – publication in Petrograd of the ethnographic map of the Belarusian tribe (designed after the ethnographic map published in 1903)

Minsk (1917-1920)
1917
– 1917, March-April – participated in the Congress of Belarusian National Organizations as member of the special ethnographic commission
– 1917 – moved from Petrograd to Minsk
– 1917, December – participated in the First All-Belarusian Congress as honorary chairman, made a report on the conditions for opening Minsk University, the arrest of the congress presidium
1918
– 1918 – April 1919 – trips to Petrograd to participate in meetings of the Russian Academy of Sciences
– 1918, 10 August – elected as honorary member of the Belarusian Scientific-Cultural Society in Moscow
– 1918, 2nd half – started as Professor at Minsk Pedagogical Institute
– 1918 – the ethnographic map designed by Ye.F. Karsky was used in establishing the borders of the Belarusian National Republic and the Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus
– 1918 – the 1917 ethnographic map of the Belarusian tribe was reissued in Petrograd
– 1918 – publication in Petrograd of the study «Belarusian speech. Essays on the folk language from the historical view»
1919
– 1919, March – appointed as chairman of the organizing commission for the foundation of Minsk University
– 1919, May – the People’s Commissariat of the Lithuanian-Belarusian SSR resolved to remove Karsky from the position of Professor at Minsk Pedagogical Institute as a person with unreliable “political face”
– 1919, September – made a trip to Vilna on publishing business and to read a lecture about the Belarusian language at the Belarusian Gymnasium
– 1919 – refused the pension proposed by the Polish occupation authorities
– 1919 – published a number of articles on the history of literature and culture in the local press
Petrograd, Leningrad (1920-1931)
1920
– 1920, August – moved to Petrograd
– 1920 – appointed as Editor of «Proceedings of the Department of Russian Language and Literature at the Russian Academy of Sciences»
– 1920, September – looking for professors in Moscow for the new University of Minsk
– 1920 – publication in Minsk of the article «The Belarusian people and their language»
1921
– 1921, 2 November – appointed as Director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
– 1921 – publication in Petrograd of the second part of the third volume of his fundamental work «Belarusians. Essays on the language and literature of the Belarusian tribe. The Old West Russian language»
– 1921 – publication in Minsk of the study «What is to be done in the Belarusian language and literature?»
1922
– 1922, 5 January – refused the proposal of S.M. Nekrashevich to take the position of director in the newly opened Institute of Belarusian Culture (Inbelkult, later the Belarusian Academy of Sciences)
– 1922, 16 January – refused the proposal of S.M. Nekrashevich to return to Minsk (explained it was difficult to do research in Belarus and he could do more good for the country in Petrograd)
– 1922 – appointed as full member of the Institute of Belarusian Culture (Inbelkult, later the Belarusian Academy of Sciences), participated in working out the Inbelkult’s Charter
– 1922 – donated his personal library to the Belarusian University (about 4,000 examplars, works on ethnography and Slavic science by Russian, Belarusian, Polish, Serb, Czech, French and Slovak scholars; presently a separate collection at the National Library of the Republic of Belarus including 2,500 examplars)
– 1922 – publication in Odessa of the study «Belarusian speech in Arab script»
– 1922 – publication in Petrograd of the third part of the third volume of his fundamental work «Belarusians. Essays on the language and literature of the Belarusian tribe. Literature in the folk language»
– 1922, 30 December – report at the session of the A.N. Veselevsky Research Institute dedicated to the centenary since the publication of Iosef Dobrovsky’s Grammar of the Old Slavonic Language
1923
– 1923 – publication in Leningrad of an obituary «Ignaty Vikentyevich Yagich»
1924
– 1924, June – participated in the First International Congress of Slavonic Geographers and Ethnographers in Prague as chairman on the first day and made a report on research achievements in ethnography in Russia in 1915-1924
– 1924 – publication in Leningrad of the study «Russian dialectology. An outline of Russian literary pronounciation and folk speech in Great Russia (Southern Great Russian and Northern Great Russian dialects), Belarus and Little Russia (Ukrainian language)»
– 1924 – publication in Leningrad of the study «The contribution by I.V. Yagich to the studies of Old Slavonic and Russian languages»
– 1924 – publication in Leningrad of the study «Cultural achievements of the Russian language in old times in its western borberland»
1925
– 1925 – received the title of academician by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
– 1925, 24 May – elected as honorary member of the literary and scientific Society of Amateurs of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Moscow
1926
– 1926, 2 March – elected as full member of the Russian Geographical Society, made a report on «P.V. Shein’s works in Belarusian ethnography»
– 1926, summer – made a business trip to the South Slavic countries, passing through other European regions, established scholarly contacts with foreign Slavists
– 1926 – edited the first issue of the Laurentian Chronicle of the «Tale of Bygone Years» published in Leningrad
– 1926 – publication in Leningrad of the study «A review of the research and development of the Russian language within the borders of the USSR»
1927
– 1927, April, May – the Communist Party authorities together with the media and high-ranking academic functionaries organized a campaign criticizing Karsky’s activity in view of his business trip to the South Slavic countries and other regions in Europe in 1926
(the refutation of accusations sent to the newspaper «Pravda» was not published)
— 1927, 15 December – elected as honorary member of the Society of Written Language and Art in Leningrad
– 1927 – edited the second issue of Laurentian Chronicle «Suzdal Chronicle according to the Laurentian Codex» published in Leningrad
– 1927 – publication in Paris of the study «Deux points de phonetigue blanc-.russe»
1928
– 1928 – publication in Cracow of the study «On some features of the Belarusian language»
– 1928 – publication in Leningrad of the study «The Slavonic Cyrillic palaeography»
– 1928 – publication in Leningrad of the study «New books on Belarusian studies»
– 1928 – edited the third issue of Laurentian Chronicle «Continuation of Suzdal Chronicle according to Academic version. Appendixes. Indexes» published in Leningrad
– 1928 – publication in Leningrad of the study «Papers of the Academic Conference on the reform of the Belarusian orthography and alphabet»
– 1928 – publication in Leningrad of the study «On the history of the Slavonic philology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries»
1929
– 1929, January – elected as member of the Czech Royal Academic Society (later Academy of Sciences)
– 1929 – publication in Leningrad of the study «Observations on the syntax of the Laurentian codex»
1930
– 1930, 13 February – elected as Doctor at the University of Prague
– 1930, 2 October – removed from the position of Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
– 1930 – publication in Leningrad of the study «On the history of the Belarusian language in the 17th century»
– 1930 – publication in Leningrad of the study «The Cherven dialect (from the Belarusian dialectology)»
– 1930 – publication in Leningrad of the study «The Russian Truth according to the oldest known codex»
1931
– 1931, 29 April – Yevfimy Fyodorovich Karsky died. He was buried in Smolenskoye Orthodox Cemetery in Leningrad

Places of collection of folklore and linguistic materials (in Russian)
(source: A.A. Karsky «Places relevant to the biography of academician Ye.F. Karsky». CD-ROM «Heritage of academician Yefim Karsky: to the 150th anniversary of the birth» / compilers V. Skalaban, K. Susha / Minsk, 2010)



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