Archival documents and materials relating to M. V. Dovnar-Zapolsky

Evaluation of M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky’s work

Notice from the Russian Geographical Society on M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky’s awarding with a silver medal for his work “Peasant games in Minsk Province”. 10 March 1892. Manuscript on printed form. (Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv, f. 262, op.1, d. 9, l. 1)
Letter from A. Gren, Privat-Docent at the Kiev St. Vladimir University to the dean’s office of the history and philology faculty informing that Prof. M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky’s pedagogical work was banned by the order of the interior minister. 14 April 1904. Manuscript. (Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv, f. 262, op.1, d. 17, l. 1)
Article “Dovnar-Zapolsky”. Printed. New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron. Saint-Petersburg, [1912]. Vol. 16. P. 462. (NIAB, scientific reference libary, № 384)
Chapter from the book by V. Bondarchik “The history of Belarusian ethnography” about M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky. Printed. V. Bondarchik. Istoriya belorusskoi etnografii. Minsk, 1964. P. 201-215. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 20906)
Publication by V. Lebedeva “An autobiographical document of M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky”. Printed. Belarusian Archeographical Yearbook. Minsk, 2001. P. 287-293. Belarusian and Russian. (BGAMLI, library, № 21187)
Article by V. Bondarchik “With love to the people” about M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky. 28 September 1960. Authorized typescript with author’s corrections. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 12, op. 1, d. 571, l. 29-44)
Article by V. Bondarchik “The legacy of the historian and ethnographer”. Newspaper “Litaratura i mastatstva”. № 102. 20 December 1960. P. 3-4. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library)
Excerpt from the book by M. Goretsky “The history of Belarusian literature” about M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky. Printed. M. Goretsky. Istoriya belorusskoi literatury. Vilna, 1920. P. 131. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 22116)
Publication by R. Platonov “Expulsion. To the 130th anniversary of the birth of M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky.” Newspaper “Litaratura i mastatstva”. 1997. № 26. P. 14-15. Belarusian and Russian. (BGAMLI, library)
Resolution draft of the CP(b)B Central Committee Bureau regarding Protocol № 1 on the Belarusian intelligentsia and the Institute of Belarusian Culture ( №16 on M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky’s dismissal from the Belarusian State University). 4 February 1926. Typescript. (NARB, f. 4p, op. 1, d. 2008, l. 77-79)
Book review by V. Serbenta “About the manuscript of Dovnar-Zapolsky’s book “A History of Belarus”. 6 February 1926. Printed. M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky. Istoriya Belarusi. Minsk, 1994. Belarusian and Russian. P. 497-506. (BGAMLI, library, № 15925)
Minutes of closed meeting № 10 of the CP(b)B Central Committee Bureau ( № 4 on the impossibility to publish M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky’s book “A History of Belarus” and the fate of its manuscript). 28 January 1926. Typescript. (NARB, f. 4p, op. 1, d. 2008, l. 46-46 ob.)
Minutes of closed meeting № 24 of the CP(b)B Central Committee Bureau ( № 7 on the terms of M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky’s exit from the Belarusian SSR and the necessity to acquire his library). 2 April 1926. Typescript. (NARB, f. 4p, op. 1, d. 2536, l. 1-2)
Minutes of meeting № 17 of the CP(b)B Central Committee Bureau ( № 218 on the circumstances of M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky’s election to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR). 14 June 1929. Typescript. Belarusian. (NARB, f. 4p, op. 1, d. 4325, l. 36-37)
Excerpt from the book by V. Bondarchik “Evdokim Romanovich Romanov” about M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky. Printed. V. Bondarchik. Evdokim Romanovich Romanov. Minsk, 1961. P. 43-49. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 360)
Excerpt from the book by N. Gilevich “Care for the people’s songs…” about M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky. Printed. N. Gilevich. S zabotoi o pesnyakh naroda… Minsk, 1970. P. 83-86. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 22624)
Excerpts from the book by G. Kisilev “In search of the name” about M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky’s viewpoint on the authorship of the poem “Taras on Parnassus”. Printed. G. Kisilev. Poiski imeni. MinskМинск, 1978. С. 26-31, 45-46, 50-53. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 14824)
Letter from Ya. Stankevich, Belarusian linguist and historian (Prague) to V. Lastovsky, Belarusian public figure and politician, chief editor of the magazine “Kryvich” (Kaunas), mentioning the use of M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky’s work “The foundations of Belarusian statehood”. 11 July 1923. Printed. Archives of the Belarusian National Republic. Fonds 582 of the State Archives of Lithuania. Vol. І. Book 2. Vilnius, New York, Minsk, Prague. 1998. P. 1407. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 19462)
Article by A. Kavka “Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapolsky – literary critic” (versions). 1997. Typescript with author’s corrections. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 340, op.1, d. 84, l. 1-9, 11-11 ob.)
Article by A. Kavka “Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapolsky the founder in the context of literary criticism”. Clipping from the newspaper “Litaratura i mastatstva”. 19 September 1997. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 340, op.1, d. 84, l. 10)
Collected papers on economics by M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky “The Baku period in M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky’s work” / editor V. Lebedeva, author-compiler D. Kozlov (cover, title page, contents, preface). Photocopy. Printed. Gomel, 2007. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky)
Book by A. Taras “Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapolsky: The father of Belarusian historiography” (cover, title page, preface, contents, conclusion). Photocopy. Printed. Minsk, 2012. Belarusian. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky)
Collected papers and documents “The investigator of the history of the three peoples: Mitrofan Victorovich Dovnar-Zapolsky” / ed. V. Lebedeva (cover, title page, contents). Photocopy. Printed. Gomel – Rechitsa, 2000. Belarusian and Russian. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky)