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Mitrofan Victorovich Dovnar-Zapolsky (1867-1934)<\/font><\/b><\/p>\r\n

Personal diversity, active social temperament, wide \r\nrange of interests are the most characteristic features of Mitrofan Victorovich \r\nDovnar-Zapolsky. <\/p>\r\n

M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky \u2013 Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, full member \r\nof the Institute of Belarusian Culture (Inbelkult, later Belarusian Academy of \r\nSciences), founder of Belarusian national historiography. <\/p>\r\n

The main subjects of his interest included history, ethnography, folklore and literary studies. In his activity he was \r\nsupported by \r\nideas of economic materialism and the liberal-democratic methodology.\u00a0\r\n

Dovnar-Zapolsky is the author of over 200 scholarly works. His papers contain \r\nlarge factual material gathered in numerous ethnographic and folklore \r\nexpeditions and the primary sources examined in all major Russian and some foreign \r\narchives and libraries. His research topics are very diverse and span many centuries. These are \r\nworks on ethnography, social history, economics and politics in \r\nBelarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland from the early centuries to the \r\nfirst quarter of the Twentieth century. These include the innovative research \r\non issues of national economy and liberation movement in Russia previously not reported or banned.\u00a0On \r\nhis initiative and with his active participation, \r\nmany \r\narchival documents were published for the first time on a strictly \r\nscientific basis, as well as a multi-volume \r\nbook of essays and articles on Russian history. \r\n

Dovnar-Zapolsky lectured at the universities of Moscow, Kiev, Kerch, \r\nKharkov, Baku and Minsk. He was initiator and director of a number of higher \r\neducational institutions. He was active in scientific-pedagogical activities \r\nand trained a group of prominent historian-scholars. Also he founded his own \r\nscientific-historical school.\u00a0\r\n

Dovnar-Zapolsky maintained creative relations with many scholars and participated in all archaeological congresses as a chairman, adviser and \r\nopponent. He collaborated with many publishing houses, newspapers and magazines.\r\n

Many archive documents testify to \r\nthe literary creativity of Dovnar-Zapolsky. He is the author of plays, stories, translations and one novel. \r\n

Dovnar-Zapolsky’s intensive work in science, teaching and pedagogics were combined with his \r\nactive social activity and service in government structures, where he showed himself as a diplomat and practical economist.\r\n

Belarus holds a special place in Dovnar-Zapolsky’s work. Starting \r\nfrom his first studies, his major attention was focused on Belarusian national \r\nrebirth. Dovnar-Zapolsky is an outstanding researcher of \r\nBelarusian history, who investigated the national and cultural \r\nuniqueness of the Belarusian people. He was engaged in preparing and publishing \r\na number of books of \r\narchival documents containing valuable primary sources for the history of Belarus \r\nin the 14th-18th centuries, earlier not printed and unknown to researchers. He was one \r\nof the first who investigated Belarus as a separate subject of historical \r\nresearch. He is the author of the first special works on the origins and \r\nformation of Belarusian statehood, in which he explains the historical reasons \r\nfor the right of Belarus to independence and self-determination. In his works he \r\nhighlights the \r\nexistence of Belarusian nation with its own history, specific ethnographic \r\nfeatures, rich people’s culture and its own Belarusian language. Dovnar-Zapolsky \r\ncreated a map of the settlement of the Belarusians. In Ukraine, he was active in \r\nconsolidating the Belarusians and in solving the economic, commercial and diplomatic \r\nissues in the interests of Belarus. He stood at the origins of the Belarusian \r\nUniversity and the Belarusian Archaeographical Organization.\r\n

The dramatic circumstances of Dovnar-Zapolsky’s personal life, \r\nhis persecution and lack of need for academic works within the Soviet system \r\nconsiderably hampered his activities.\r\n

The creative achievements of Dovnar-Zapolsky were recognized by \r\nhis contemporaries and remain important in the present time. This is \r\ntestified by numerous reprints of his works (over a hundred during his lifetime \r\nand over forty after his death).\u00a0\u00a0 \r\n

In the native town of Dovnar-Zapolsky in Rechitsa, Gomel Region, a \r\nmonument was erected and beginning from 1997 seven International \r\nScholarly Dovnar Readings were conducted. In Kiev, the Jubilee \r\nAcademic Conference was \r\nheld to celebrate the 140th anniversary of his birth. In Minsk, an exhibition \r\nwas organized in the Library of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences to \r\nmark his 146th anniversary. Also, a \r\nstreet in Kiev bears the name of Dovnar-Zapolsky.\u00a0\r\n

Many records relating to Dovnar-Zapolsky’s life and work are dispersed in archives and libraries in six countries (seven in Belarus, \r\nfifteen in Russia, five in Ukraine, two in Lithuania, one in Azerbaijan and \r\nin Canada). The Central State Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv holds a separate \r\ncollection containing 212 storage items relating to Dovnar-Zapolsky.\u00a0\r\n

Today many fundamental works by Dovnar-Zapolsky occupy a worthy \r\nplace among the works of prominent researchers of the history of Belarus and other Slavic countries. His scholarly legacy remains important and, \r\nas before, has its proponents and \r\nopponents.\r\n

Presently the commemoration of\u00a0Mitrofan Victorovich Dovnar-Zapolsky in \r\nBelarus demands additional efforts appropriate to his contribution to \r\nthe theory and practical applications in the social, economic and political \r\nspheres. <\/p>\r\n

The major events of life and work of M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky<\/b><\/p>\r\n

\r\n– Rechitsa (1867-1879)<\/a>
\r\n– Mozyr (1880-1885) <\/a>
\r\n– Kiev (1885-1894) <\/a>
\r\n– Moscow (1894-1901)<\/a>
\r\n– Kiev (1901-1913) <\/a>
\r\n– Saratov (1914-1917) <\/a>
\r\n– Kiev (1917-1919)<\/a>
\r\n– Kerch (1920) <\/a>
\r\n– Kharkov (1920-1922)<\/a>
\r\n– Baku (1922 -1925)<\/a>
\r\n– Minsk (1925-1926)<\/a>
\r\n– Moscow (1926-1934)<\/a><\/i>\r\n

\r\n<\/a>Rechitsa (1867-1879)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

Mitrofan Victorovich Dovnar-Zapolsky was born on 14 June<\/b> (2 June Old \r\nStyle) 1867 <\/b> in the district town of Rechitsa, Minsk Province, Russian \r\nEmpire (now Gomel Region, Republic of Belarus).
\r\nHe came from the old and noble Belarusian family (coat-of-arms Pobog) known from the \r\n16th century and completely impoverished by the 19th century. The family branch \r\nof\u00a0 Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapolsky (his great grandfather Anthony, grandfather Martin) in \r\n1802 was recognized as the Russian nobility.
\r\nFather Victor Martinovich Dovnar-Zapolsky was collegiate secretary and \r\ndepartment head at the police administration in Rechitsa.
\r\nMother Aleksandra Stanislavovna (nee Lindaher), who was also of noble origin, \r\nraised four children except Mitrofan: Pyotr, Sofia, Maria and \r\nSerafima.

\r\nDue to financial difficulties, constant resettlement from one area to another, \r\nand as a result the family’s breakup Mitrofan (who had stayed with his father) received primary \r\neducation in various school institutions \u2013 in Rechitsa, Baranovichi, Plovdiv \r\n(Bulgaria) etc. <\/p>\r\n

<\/a>Mozyr (1880-1885) <\/b><\/p>\r\n

1880<\/b>
\r\n– began studies in a six-year secondary school in Mozyr
\r\n1883<\/b>
\r\n– first steps in research work and publication of the first \r\nshort article on local history \u00abFrom Mozyr\u00bb (Kiev)
\r\n1884-1885<\/b>
\r\n– publication of seven short articles mainly of ethnographic \r\ncharacter, including \u00abFrom Mozyr\u00bb (3 items), \u00abBy the banks of the Pripyat\u00bb, \u00abBooks \r\nfor the people\u00bb (Saint-Petersburg)
\r\n1885, autumn<\/b>
\r\n– left school voluntarily because of poor progress in studies and low assessment of his abilities\u00a0 <\/p>\r\n

<\/a>Kiev (1885-1894)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

1885, autumn<\/b>
\r\n– began studies at the Kiev First Gymnasium (classical school)
\r\n– publication of short articles \u00abFrom Kiev\u00bb and \r\n\u00abOn the nervous generation\u00bb (Saint-Petersburg)
\r\n1886<\/b>
\r\n– publication of the first article of economic character \u00abThe peasant \r\neconomy in Tver Province: from local studies\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n1887<\/b>
\r\n– publication of the essay \u00abFrom Kiev to Rogachev\u00bb, which expressed demand on \r\nbehalf of Belarusian peasants to print literature in the \r\nBelarusian language (newspaper \u00abMinsky listok\u00bb)
\r\n1888<\/b>
\r\n– worked as a home teacher to earn living
\r\n– established contacts with the University’s environment and became acquainted with Professor V. \r\nAntonovich, head of the Department of Russian History at the Kiev St. Vladimir \r\nUniversity, chief of a Kiev-based historiographical school\u00a0
\r\n– publication of the first brochure \u00abBelarusian wedding parties and \r\nsongs: \r\nAn ethnographic sketch\u00bb (Kiev)
\r\n– was expelled from the Gymnasium on 1 April 1888, two months before graduation, \r\nafter the gymnasium inspector had found unauthorized books at\u00a0Dovnar-Zapolsky’s \r\napartment, mainly works on Slavonic studies brought from Bulgaria \r\nduring his visit to his mother
\r\n– publication of a large essay \r\n\u00abThe Belarusian past\u00bb, which speaks of the necessity of national rebirth for \r\nthe Belarusian people similarly to the Czechs, Slovaks and Serbs; for \r\nthe first time essentially shows Belarusian history from national positions in contrast \r\nto the Great-Polish and Great-Russian concepts; advances the thesis of \r\nindependence for the Belarusian nation with its own history, culture and language \r\ndifferent from the neighboring peoples; and assumes the equality of \r\nBelarusians among the European nations (in six issues of the newspaper \u00abMinsky \r\nlistok\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of a short geographical essay \u00abOld \r\nBelarus: the 9th-12th cc.\u00bb (newspaper \u00abMinsky listok\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the paper \r\n\u00abThe statistical essays of the North-Western Region: I. Population and area; II. \r\nPopular schooling; III. Land property; IV. Agriculture; V. Factory-and-works \r\nindustry\u00bb (in fourteen issues of the bulletin \u00abVilensky vestnik\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the review of the book \u00abDoctor F. Skorina, his translations, books, language\u00bb \r\nby V. Vladimirov (newspaper \u00abMinsky listok\u00bb)
\r\n– refusal of Dovnar-Zapolsky’s petition to return to the Gymnasium in the autumn \r\nof 1888 for the probability that he would continue prohibited activities
\r\n1889<\/b>
\r\n– finished the Kiev Second Gymnasium on passing the exams as an external \r\nstudent and decided to enter the University despite his father’s refusal in \r\nfinancial assistance
\r\n– excellently passed the entrance exams to the Kiev St. Vladimir University, \r\nwas freed from tuition payments and was awarded the scholarship of SS. \r\nCyril and Mithodius
\r\n– began studies at the History and Philology Faculty (in the speciality of \r\nRussian history) at the Kiev St. Vladimir University \u2013 a major scholarly center \r\nin the western region of the Russian Empire (including Ukraine, Belarus and \r\nPoland), where a regional scientific school was founded by Professor V. \r\nAntonovich to investigate among other issues the historical legacy of the \r\nGrand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth \r\n(Rzeczpospolita), thus influencing Dovnar-Zapolsky’s choice of Belarusian studies
\r\n– organized the publication of \u00abCalendar of the North-Western Region\u00bb \u2013 \r\nsupplement to the newspaper \r\n\u00abMinsky listok\u00bb
\r\n– publication in Moscow of \u00abCalendar of the North-Western Region for 1889\u00bb \r\nedited by Dovnar-Zapolsky (with the active support of V. Zavitnevich and M. \r\nShakhov), which also printed Dovnar-Zapolsky’s own articles on history, \r\nethnography and statistics in Belarus, including \u00abThe Belarusian dialect\u00bb, \u00abV. \r\nDunin-Martsinkevich’s novella in verse in the Belarusian language \u00abGapon\u00bb (From \r\nthe history of Belarusian ethnography)\u00bb, \u00abThe Easter in Belarus [written in \r\nSlutsk district, Minsk province, the village of Konyukhi]\u00bb, \u00abThe church court in \r\nSmolensk Duchy in the 12th century\u00bb, \r\n\u00abSaint Vladimir and his time: (devoted to the 900th anniversary of the \r\nchristening of Rus)\u00bb\r\n
\r\n– publication of the review of N. Yanchuk’s book \u00abIn Minsk \r\nProvince: (Notes from the 1886 trip)\u00bb which criticized the positions of Russian, \r\nPolish and Ukrainian scholars claiming for Belarus as part of their national \r\nformations (\u00abVilensky vestnik\u00bb)
\r\n– development of the concept of scholarly research of Belarus with the support \r\nof local researchers for the preliminary committee of the Archaeological Congress in Vilna; \r\nfoundation \r\nof a regional research center, periodical, museum and library
\r\nthe 1890s<\/b>
\r\n– active contacts with fellow-countrymen, specialists in Belarusian studies A. \r\nElsky, E. Romanov, P. Slupsky, A. Zinovyev, N. Nikiforovsky, E. Lyatsky, Ya. \r\nLuchina\u00a0etc. with the purpose of their consolidation to investigate \r\nBelarusian history
\r\n1890<\/b>
\r\n– publication in Moscow of \u00abCalendar of the North-Western Region for 1890\u00bb \r\nedited by Dovnar-Zapolsky and including his works \u00abEssays on the history of \r\nBelarus: \r\nFrom the beginning to the death of Vladimir Monomakh (1125)\u00bb, \u00abStatistical data \r\non the North-Western Region\u00bb, reviews of P. Bryantsev’s \u00abHistory of the \r\nLithuanian state from the old times\u00bb, E. Volter’s \u00abThe family life of the \r\nLithuanian and Zmudz people\u00bb, \u0410. Veselovsky’s \u00abFrom the history of the novel and \r\nthe novella\u00bb
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abAn essay on the history of \r\nKrivichi and Dregovichi lands until the end of the 12th century\u00bb (\u00abUniversity \r\nnews\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of a historical and ethnographical study \u00abThe magic in \r\nthe North-Western Region in the 17th and 18th cc.\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the review of the book \u00abThe \r\nBelarusian antiquities\u00bb and the article \u00abThe funeral rites of the Belarusians\u00bb \r\n(newspaper \u00abMinsky listok\u00bb)
\r\n1891<\/b>
\r\n– publication in Kiev during his studies at the university of his first \r\nmonograph \u00abAn essay on the history of Krivichi and Dregovichi lands until the \r\nend of the 12th century\u00bb, for which he was awarded the gold medal
\r\n– member of the Imperial Society of Amateurs of Natural Science, Anthropology \r\nand Ethnography
\r\n– expeditions to the provinces of Minsk and Grodno to study folklore and daily \r\nlife of local residents, which resulted in the publication of \u00abNotes from \r\nthe trip to Belarus\u00bb in the newspapers \u00abVilensky vestnik\u00bb and \u00abMinsky listok\u00bb
\r\n1891-1894<\/b>
\r\n– publication of 30 works (articles, essays, reviews) on ancient history, \r\nBelarusian ethnography, Belarusian dialect, and notes for the Ninth \r\nArchaeological Congress in Vilna
\r\n1892<\/b>
\r\n– awarded the silver medal by the Russian Geographical Society for the work \u00abPeasant \r\ngames in Minsk Province\u00bb
\r\n– received official thanks from the preliminary committee of the Ninth \r\nArchaeological Congress in Vilna for his valuable recommendations on the \r\nsociety’s work
\r\n– ethnographic studies in Minsk Province
\r\n1894<\/b>
\r\n– began intensive activity to organize the Belarusian Scholarly Circle, \r\na basis for future Belarusian Organization, with its own periodical and \r\nbranches in Moscow (E. Lyatsky), Minsk (Ya. Zinovyev) and Kiev (M. \r\nDovnar-Zapolsky)
\r\n– graduated from the Kiev St. Vladimir University with the gold medal and high \r\nevaluation by the state examination commission, but at the same time was prohibited to teach in the Kiev school district \r\nbecause of his disloyalty
\r\n– received professor’s scholarship at the Department of Russian History at the Kiev \r\nSt. Vladimir University thanks to professors V. Antonovich, T. Florinsky and \r\nother lecturers
\r\n– assigned by the Kiev \r\nSt. Vladimir University to collect materials for his \r\ndissertation at the Moscow Archives of the Justice Ministry of the Russian \r\nEmpire, which preserved one of the most valuable sources on the Belarusian \r\nhistory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania \u2013 the Lithuanian Metrica<\/p>\r\n

<\/a>Moscow (1894-1901)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

1894<\/b>
\r\n– moved to Moscow in the summer of 1894
\r\n– began work in the Moscow Archives of the Justice Ministry to study the \r\narchive documents and prepare the master’s dissertation on the economic \r\nsystem of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th century
\r\n– began pedagogical activity as a teacher at Rzhevskaya’s Female Gymnasium
\r\n1895<\/b>
\r\n– ethnographic studies in Grodno Province
\r\n– publication in Kiev of the first large book \u00abBelarusian Polesye. Ethnographic \r\nmaterials collected by M. Dovnar-Zapolsky. Issue 1. The songs of Pinsk Polesye \r\nresidents\u00bb, which received positive \r\nreview from Academician E. Karsky and other scholars\u00a0and initiated \r\nacademic discussion on issues of\u00a0ethnography in Polesye Region
\r\n– publication of the essay on Belarusian ethnography \u00abDunin-Martsinkevich and his poem \u00abTaras on the \r\nParnassus\u00bb (\u00abVitebskie gubernskie vedomosti\u00bb)
\r\n1896<\/b>
\r\n– married Nadezhda Ilyinichna Zeifert
\r\n– prepared for publication several volumes of archival materials, \r\nincluding an important monument of Belarusian Middle Ages \u2013 \u00abRecords of the \r\nLithuanian-Russian State\u00bb containing legal acts of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania \r\n(Lithuanian Metrica)\u00a0\r\n
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abFrom the history of the Lithuanian-Polish \r\nstruggle for Volhynia: \r\nthe treaties of 1366\u00bb (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abFrom the history of the Union of \r\nLublin\u00bb (\u00abKievskaya starina\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of 12 book reviews on issues of history, archaeology, \r\nethnography and jurisprudence on Belarusian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and Estonian \r\nlands
\r\n1897<\/b>
\r\n– awarded the silver medal for diligent work at Rzhevskaya’s Gymnasium
\r\n– taken on the staff of the Moscow Archives of the Justice Ministry as senior \r\nassistant archivist for the Lithuanian Metrica and continued studies on \r\ncompiling the name index\u00a0 and description of books; finally chose his main \r\nsubjects of research \u2013 history of economics and archaeography\r\n
\r\n– secretary, and in fact organizer and editor of publications at the \r\nArchaeographical Commission of the Moscow Archaeological Society, founded on the \r\ninitiative of Dovnar-Zapolsky (for five years)
\r\n– worked in archives in Saint-Petersburg and Warsaw
\r\n– publication of the book \u00abDocuments of the Moscow Archives of the \r\nJustice Ministry\u00bb, \r\nwhich for the first time included the most important documents of \u00abRecords of \r\nthe Lithuanian-Russian State (14th-16th cc.)\u00bb with valuable data on the history \r\nof the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of \u00abNotes on the Crimean affairs in the Lithuanian \r\nMetrica\u00bb (Simferopol)
\r\n– publication of \u00abEssays on the family law of peasants in Minsk \r\nProvince\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the monograph \u00abThe Western Russian \r\nagricultural community in the 16th century\u00bb (Saint-Petersburg)
\r\n– publication of a historical essay \u00abThe Polish-Lithuanian Union in \r\nthe Seims until 1569\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of Dovnar-Zapolsky’s report at the Imperial Society of Amateurs of \r\nEarly Written Language \u00abOn the 16th-century Western Russian chronicle at the \r\nSynodal library: [Barkulabov Chronicle\u00bb]
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abCollection of Polish \r\nproverbs of the 18th century\u00bb (\u00abEthnographical review\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the review to the book \u00abPapers of \r\nthe Ninth Archaeological Congress in Vilna. 1893\u00bb (\u00abArchaeological\u00a0 news\u00bb)
\r\n1898<\/b>
\r\n– birth of son Vsevolod
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abLithuanian records of the Tartar \r\nhordes: \r\nThe treasury book of the Lithuanian Metrica of 1502-1509\u00bb (Simferopol)
\r\n– publication of the text of the Barkulabov Chronicle \u2013 \r\na historical and literary monument of the 16th and 17th centuries (\u00abUniversity \r\nnews\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the works of the Archaeographical Commission of the \r\nMoscow Archaeological Society \u00abAntiquities\u00bb (volume \r\n1, issues 1-2) edited by Dovnar-Zapolsky (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abBerestye starostvo in the 16th \r\nc.\u00bb (\u00abUniversity news\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the review \u00abOn the history of economic life in Galicia in the \r\n16th century\u00bb to the book \u00abSources into the history of Ukraine-Rus\u00bb
\r\n1899<\/b>
\r\n– began work at the University of Moscow as a privat-docent at the Department \r\nof Russian History led by Professor V. Klyuchevsky\u00a0
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abV.N. Tyapinsky, a translator of \r\nthe Gospel to the Belarusian dialect: I-II\u00bb (Saint-Petersburg)
\r\n– publication of the text of \u00abRecords of the Lithuanian-Russian State (14th-16th \r\ncc.)\u00bb, which first systematized documents on the history of the \r\nGrand Duchy of Lithuania for 150 years (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the works of the Archaeographical Commission of the \r\nMoscow Archaeological Society \u00abAntiquities\u00bb (volume \r\n1, issue 3) edited by Dovnar-Zapolsky (Moscow)
\r\n– speech at the Eleventh Archaeological Congress in Kiev with a review of \r\nactivities of provincial archival commissions
\r\n– acted as opponent (together with Professor V. Klyuchevsky) to doctor’s \r\ndissertation \u00abThe Lithuanian Seim\u00bb by M. Lyubavsky
\r\n1900<\/b>
\r\n– birth of son Vyacheslav
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abTo the history of the land reform in \r\nLivonia in 1580-1582\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abThe state economy in the \r\nGrand Duchy of Lithuania under the Jagiellon Dynasty\u00bb (\u00abUniversity news\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the works of the Archaeographical Commission of the \r\nMoscow Archaeological Society \u00abAntiquities\u00bb (volume 2, issue 1) edited by \r\nDovnar-Zapolsky (Moscow)
\r\n– met with writer Leo Tolstoy at his house in Khamovniki to discuss the history \r\nof the Decembrist Movement and their cooperation to publish and edit a \r\nliterary and political weekly (the project was not implemented because of the \r\ncensor’s opposition)<\/p>\r\n

<\/a>Kiev (1901-1913)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

1901<\/b>
\r\n– successful defence of master’s dissertation at the Kiev St. Vladimir University on the topic \r\n\u00abThe state economy in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under the Jagiellon Dynasty\u00bb, \r\nits publication in Kiev and receiving the P. Batyushkov Prize
\r\n– transferred to the Kiev St. Vladimir University by order of the Education \r\nMinister of the Russian Empire
\r\n– taken on the staff of the Kiev St. Vladimir University as a privat-docent at \r\nthe Department of Russian History
\r\n– lecture \u00abThe historical process of the Russian people in Russian \r\nhistoriography\u00bb at the Kiev St. Vladimir University on 20 September 1901 \r\ncontaining the slogan \u00abback to Marxism\u00bb, which caused a stormy favourable \r\nreaction from the students and was disapproved by the professorate
\r\n– publication of the reviews \u00abControversial questions in the \r\nhistory of the Lithuanian-Russian Seim\u00bb and \u00abThe old inventories of the \r\nLithuanian Metrica\u00bb (Saint-Petersburg)
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abThe reform of the comprehensive school under Empress Catherine II\u00bb \r\n(\u00abPedagogical listok\u00bb)
\r\n1902<\/b>
\r\n– birth of daughter Irina
\r\n– chairman of the Kiev Archaeographical Commission
\r\n– founder and chairman of the history and ethnography circle of students at the Kiev \r\nSt. Vladimir University, who investigated economic management in Russian regions in Middle Ages (the circle \r\nfunctioned for 11 years, published \r\n\u00abUniversity news\u00bb, released 10 books of academic works; in future many of its \r\nmembers became famous historians and scholars)
\r\n– elected as a member of the Kiev City Council, where until 1905 he was active in \r\nsolving social and economic issues
\r\n– confirmed as an acting extraordinary professor at the Department \r\nof Russian History at the Kiev St. Vladimir University
\r\n– publication of the works of the Archaeographical Commission of the \r\nMoscow Archaeological Society \u00abAntiquities\u00bb (volume 2, issue 2) edited by \r\nDovnar-Zapolsky (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the \r\npaper \u00abThe historical process of the Russian people in Russian historiography\u00bb \r\nand seven book reviews on various aspects of administration in the 16th-19th \r\ncenturies in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in Russia (Moscow magazine \r\n\u00abRusskaya mysl\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of \u00abNotes on the establishment of the Statistical Bureau under the \r\nKiev City Council\u00bb
\r\n1903<\/b>
\r\n– report at the Historical Society of Nestor the Chronicler \u00abFrom the history of \r\nserfdom in Western Russia in the 18th-19th cc.\u00bb
\r\n– publication of two book reviews on \r\nancient Russian law and Russian history in the first half of the 19th \r\ncentury (Moscow magazine \u00abRusskaya mysl\u00bb)
\r\n1904 <\/b>
\r\n– Ministry of Internal Affairs banned pedagogical activity to Dovnar-Zapolsky
\r\n– publication of the first volume of \u00abReading book in Russian \r\nhistory\u00bb edited by Dovnar-Zapolsky, which included a number of his own writings \u00abVeche\u00bb \r\n(popular assembly in ancient Russia), \r\n\u00abPrinces and prince’s administration\u00bb, \u00abColonization by the Slavs of the East \r\nEuropean Plain until the half of the 13th century\u00bb, \u00abThe Scythian tombs\u00bb, \u00abThe \r\nserfs\u00bb, \r\n\u00abThe church and the clergy\u00bb, \u00abThe map of ancient Russia in the 11th-13th cc.\u00bb\r\n(Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the \r\npaper \u00abThe establishment of ministries in Russia and the Decree on Laws of the \r\nSenate of 8 September 1802\u00bb (in three issues of \u00abVsemirny vestnik\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abThe \r\npolitical ideals of \u041c.\u041c. \r\nSperansky\u00bb (journal \u00abNauchnoye slovo\u00bb)
\r\n1905<\/b>
\r\n– successful defence of doctor’s dissertation on the topic \u00abEssays on the \r\norganization of Western Russian peasantry in the 16th century\u00bb and its \r\npublication in Kiev
\r\n– head of the Department of Russian History as an ordinary professor, lectured \r\non the history of the Moscow period in the Russian Empire and on the juridical \r\nsources to the history of Russian law
\r\n– member of the editorial council of the liberal publication \u00abKievskiye otkliki\u00bb, \r\nwhose contributors were many famous writers and humanist scholars
\r\n– took part in the creation of the Higher Female Courses in Kiev
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abA page from the history of serfdom in the \r\n18th-19th cc.\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the paper on the major agrarian reform in the Grand Duchy of \r\nLithuania \u00abThe peasant reform in the Lithuanian-Russian State in the half of the \r\n16th century\u00bb
\r\n– publication of the book \u00abFrom the history of social movements in \r\nRussia\u00bb, including articles \u00abThe historical process of the Russian people in \r\nRussian historiography\u00bb, \u00abNew notes by a Decembrist\u00bb, etc. (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of the first and second volumes of \u00abRussian history in \r\nessays and articles\u00bb edited by Dovnar-Zapolsky (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of legal documents from the collection of Count A. Uvarov edited by Dovnar-Zapolsky \r\n(Moscow)
\r\n1906<\/b>
\r\n– speech at the preliminary committee of the Fourteenth Archaeological Congress in Chernigov
\r\n– publication of \u00abMemoirs of the Decembrists (notes, letters, \r\ntestimonies and constitution drafts, extracted from the investigation file, with an \r\nintroduction and commentaries)\u00bb \u2013 the first officially permitted publication on \r\nthe history of the Decembrist movement, which began the academic research of \r\nthis social phenomenon (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of a historical essay \u00abThe secret society of the \r\nDecembrists\u00bb written on the basis of investigation files (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abThe political system in ancient Russia: The \r\npopular assembly (veche) and the prince\u00bb \r\nand \u00abChurch and clergy in pre-Mongolian Russia\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n– founder and director of the Higher Commercial Courses in Kiev
\r\n1907<\/b>
\r\n– founder of the Kiev Commercial Institute on the basis of the Higher \r\nCommercial Courses (the second educational institution of this kind in the \r\nRussian Empire and the first one in Ukraine) and its director for 10 years on \r\nthe basis of his own model of higher education, which combined fundamental \r\ntheoretical training and practical orientation (he used this experience in \r\nfuture to create four higher educational institutions); head of the Department \r\nof the History of National Economy; author of a special (and the only one in \r\nRussia) course of lectures on the economic history of Russia, taught Russian \r\nmodern history and Russian law
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abThe ideals of the Decembrists\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the work \u00abA new type of the higher education\u00bb (\u00abReview of \r\nteaching in the Kiev Commercial Institute\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the Archives of South-Western Russia, Volume 5, Part 8 \u00abLegal \r\nacts on Ukrainian administration in the 16th-17th cc.\u00bb (Kiev)
\r\n1908<\/b>
\r\n– participated in developing the draft law on the higher commercial \r\neducation in Russia
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abUkrainian starostvos in the first half of \r\nthe 16th c.\u00bb (Kiev)
\r\n1909<\/b>
\r\n– elected as an honorary member of the Vitebsk Academic \r\nCommission
\r\n– publication of the first volume of the book \u00abResearch papers and \r\narticles\u00bb which contained many works by Dovnar-Zapolsky, including 16 articles on \r\nethnography, sociology, statistics, Belarusian written language, \r\npreviously unpublished articles \u00abHandicraft industries in Minsk Province\u00bb, \r\nethnographical essays \u00abBelarusians\u00bb etc. (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of the first volume of \u00abRussian history in essays and \r\narticles\u00bb edited by Dovnar-Zapolsky and including his earlier not printed works \u00abThe \r\nprince, his council and administration\u00bb, \u00abColonization by the Slavs of the East \r\nEuropean Plain until the half of the 13th century\u00bb, \u00abA review of economic system \r\nin ancient Russia\u00bb, \u00abThe serfs\u00bb, \u00abThe church and the clergy\u00bb, etc. (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of \u00abThe map of ancient Russia in the 11th-13th cc.\u00bb compiled by \r\nDovnar-Zapolsky (in the first volume of \u00abRussian history in essays and \r\narticles\u00bb)
\r\n– speech by Dovnar-Zapolsky \u00abThe historical viewpoints of V.B. Antonovich\u00bb dedicated \r\nto the memory of the scholar
\r\n– report at the Fourteenth Archaeological Congress in Chernigov \u00abA historical \r\nnote on Chernigov\u00bb
\r\n1910<\/b>
\r\n– founder of the Society of Amateurs of Social Knowledge, which included the \r\nsections of history, pedagogics and law
\r\n– publication of the second volume of \u00abRussian history in essays and \r\narticles\u00bb edited by Dovnar-Zapolsky and including his works \u00abPolitical \r\nparties in the first half of the 16th c. and the power of the Moscow tzar\u00bb, \u00abThe \r\ntime of Ivan the Terrible\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abTrade and industry in Moscow in the \r\n16th-17th cc.\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of the papers \u00abMoscow humanists and obscurants in the 16th c.\u00bb and\r\n\u00abThe organization of Moscow artisans in the 17th c.\u00bb \r\n
\r\n1911 <\/b>
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abAt the dawn of the Peasant Emancipation: \r\nPublic lectures on serfdom on the eve of emancipation and the short course of \r\nthe reform\u00bb (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of the work \r\n\u00abThe Great Reform: Russian society and the peasan question in the past and in \r\nthe present\u00bb edited by Dovnar-Zapolsky (Saint-Petersburg)
\r\n– report at the Fifteenth Archaeological Congress in Novgorod \u00abOn the historical \r\npath of Kiev\u00bb
\r\n1912 <\/b>
\r\n– publication of the third volume of \u00abRussian history in essays and \r\narticles\u00bb (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of\u00a0the work \u00abLectures on Russian history\u00bb (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of\u00a0the first volume of \u00abReview of Russian modern \r\nhistory\u00bb (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of\u00a0the textbook on the history of the Moscow period (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abThe \r\nrole of Emperor Alexander I in the Patriotic War\u00bb (Moscow)
\r\n– publication of\u00a0the work \u00abThe immediate tasks of the Russian export\u00bb \r\n(Kiev)
\r\n– one of the founders and the first board chairman of the South Western Branch \r\nof the Russian Export Chamber, board member in several banks in Kiev,\u00a0participant at the First South Russian Commercial and \r\nIndustrial Congress, \r\nparticipant at the Congress of Workers in Commercial Navigation and Port \r\nBusiness in Southern Russia
\r\n1913<\/b>
\r\n– publication of \u00abThe historical and cultural atlas on Russian history\u00bb edited \r\nby Dovnar-Zapolsky and compiled by his pupil Natalia Polonskaya (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of the article \u00abThe review of the history of economic life in \r\nRussia\u00bb (\u00abThe academy of commercial knowledge\u00bb, Saint-Petersburg)
\r\n– publication of the article \u00abThe immediate tasks of the Russian export\u00bb (\u00abNews \r\nof the Kiev Commercial Institute\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the work \u00abThe academy of commercial knowledge\u00bb by Dovnar-Zapolsky \r\nas editor and \r\nco-author (Saint-Petersburg)
\r\n– publication of the collected papers \u00abThe historical and \r\nethnographical circle of students at the Imperial University of St. Vladimir\u00bb \r\n(Moscow)
\r\n– Dovnar-Zapolsky’s book \u00abRussian history in essays and articles\u00bb \r\nwas recommended by the Ministry of Public Education \r\nand the Chief Administration of Military Educational Institutions to libraries \r\nof secondary, military and other educational institutions <\/p>\r\n

<\/a>Saratov (1914-1917)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

– work at the Kiev Commercial Institute and the Kiev University which moved \r\nto Saratov during the First World War
\r\n– preparing drafts of two new higher educational institutions – \r\nInstitute of Geography and Institute of Archaeology
\r\n1914<\/b>
\r\n– publication of the work \u00abRussian export and the world market: in \r\ntables and diagrams\u00bb (Kiev)
\r\n– publication of his speech on historical geography and \r\nethnography at the session of the historical and geographical circle at the Kiev \r\nUniversity
\r\n– reviewed articles in \u00abUniverstity news\u00bb \r\non Russian history in the 16th century
\r\n– \r\nDovnar-Zapolsky’s book \u00abRussian history in essays and articles\u00bb was recommended by \r\nthe Ministry of Trade and Commerce for senior classes of secondary educational \r\ninstitutions in the jurisdiction of the trade and commercial department
\r\n1915<\/b>
\r\n– member of the central committee of the Kiev branch of Grand Duchess Tatiana \r\nNikolaevna’s Committee for the Temporary Relief of Victims of War
\r\n– publication of two \r\nworks \u00abSemyon Ivanovich Gamaleya\u00bb and \u00abThe government persecutions of \r\nfreemasons\u00bb in the book \u00abFreemasonry in the past and in the present\u00bb
\r\n– publication of the collected papers of students at the historical and \r\ngeographical circle at the Kiev St. Vladimir University, edited by Dovnar-Zapolsky
\r\n1916<\/b>
\r\n– publication of the paper \u00abForeign policy and people’s education\u00bb in the \r\nmagazine \u00abProblems of the Great Russia\u00bb <\/p>\r\n

<\/a>Kiev (1917-1919)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

1917<\/b>
\r\n– breakup of the family, his wife and both sons fell under the influence of \r\nbolshevik V. Zatonsky, his sons openly repudiated their \u00abreactionary father, \r\nBlack-Hundred chauvinist, proletariat’s enemy\u00bb and became actively involved in \r\nthe Kiev Revolutionary Committee and the Red Guard
\r\n– conflict with the left-revolutionary student committee \r\nat the Kiev Commercial Institute, students obstructions at the University, tense \r\nrelations with the faculty in connection with falsifications and unfounded \r\naccusations
\r\n– unfairly accused in cooperation with the tsar’s \r\nregime (case opened by the Kiev Deputies Soviet with the real possibility of \r\ndeath penalty); the accusation was dismissed \u00abfor lack of corpus delicti\u00bb \r\nthanks to the support of his pupil and close friend N. Polonskaya
\r\n– dismissed from the post of director at the Kiev Commercial Institute\r\n
\r\n– one of initiators of two new educational institutions in Kiev \u2013 \r\nInstitute of Geography and Institute of Archaeology, the latter’s \r\nfirst director\u00a0
\r\n– publication of the article \u00abThe December Revolution of 1825\u00bb
\r\n– Dovnar-Zapolsky’s criticism against disbandment of the All-Belarusian \r\nCongress by Bolsheviks in December 1917
\r\n1918 <\/b>
\r\n– work at the Belarusian Military Organization (later Belarusian Organization) \r\nin Ukraine, from April 1918 as a board chairman
\r\n– publication of the article \u00abOrganize yourself!\u00bb \r\nwith a call to join Belarusian nationalist organizations in Ukraine \r\n(\u00abBelarusian echo\u00bb, June 1918)

\r\n– founder and board chairman of the Belarusian Trade Chamber in \r\nKiev, whose main task was to purchase bread and other provisions for Belarus (from March 1918)
\r\n– publication of articles \u00abThe organization of trade\u00bb and \u00abTrade \r\nperspectives in Belarus\u00bb (\u00abBelarusian echo\u00bb)
\r\n– elected a committee member of the All-Ukrainian Union of Householders \r\nCooperative Organizations
\r\n– publication of the programme article \u00abThe die is cast\u00bb in connection with the \r\ndeclaration of independence of the Belarusian National Republic (BNR), which \r\nadvocated the right of Belarus to self-determination (\u00abBelarusian word\u00bb, 1 April \r\n1918)
\r\n– publication of the article \u00abThe last days: \r\nOn the claims of Polish right-wingers\u00bb (\u00abBelarusian word\u00bb, April 1918)
\r\n– publication of the article \u00abOn the question of \r\nrenaming government institutions: [Terminology]\u00bb (\u00abFree Belarus\u00bb, May 1918)
\r\n– publication of articles \u00abThe state \r\nconstruction in Belarus and internationalist relations\u00bb and \r\n\u00abCultural constructional work and populism in Belarus\u00bb (\u00abBelarusian echo\u00bb, June \r\n191)

\r\n– member of the permanent delegation of the Belarusian National Republic in Kiev, \r\nparticipant in Belarusian-Ukrainian negotiations on bordelines (from April 1918)
\r\n– representative of the BNR government in negotiations between Ukraine and \r\nSoviet Russia\r\n
\r\n– participated in writing the Memorandum on Belarusian statehood and \r\nsubmitting it on 25 April 1918 to the German ambassador for the government of the \r\nUkrainian National Republic \r\n
\r\n– publication of the diplomatic document \u00abThe \r\nnote of the delegation: \r\n[Memorandum of the BNR Rada and Government] on the affairs of the Belarusian \r\nNational Republic in \r\ninternational negotiations, \r\nsubmitted to Chairman of the Russian delegation Kh.G. Rakovsky on 29 May 1918\u00bb \r\non non-recognition of the items of the Brest Treaty of 3 March 1918 relating to \r\nthe territory and interests of Belarus, signed by M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky and A. \r\nTsvikevich (\u00abBelarusian echo\u00bb, 8 June 1918)

\r\n– writing and publication of the \r\ntheoretical and political essay \u00abThe foundations of Belarusian statehood\u00bb, the \r\nfirst attempt of scientific explanation of historical mechanisms of the state \r\nself-determination for the Belarusian people from the analysis of historical, \r\neconomic and ethnographical factors, where \r\nDovnar-Zapolsky advanced a theory of the ancient Belarusian sovereignty of \r\nthe Polotsk and Turov duchies, and later the Grand Duchy of Lithuania \r\n(\u00abBelarusian echo\u00bb, 1 November 1918)
\r\n– member of the Commission for Opening the Belarusian University \r\n(founded by the BNR government), author (together with academician E. Karsky) \r\nof the project of opening the Belarusian University (from April 1918)
\r\n– elected the presidium chairman of the Commission for Opening the \r\nBelarusian University (July 1918)
\r\n– publication of the appeal to the BNR Rada for assistance in \r\nopening the Belarusian State University (\u00abFree Belarus\u00bb)
\r\n1919<\/b>
\r\n– his sons Vyacheslav and Vsevolod died at the age of 19 and 21
\r\n– was\u00a0invited to the post of finance minister at the BNR \r\ngovernment (May 1919)
\r\n– created a map of the settlement of the Belarusians
\r\n– publication in Grodno of the theoretical and political essay \u00abThe foundations \r\nof Belarusian statehood\u00bb as a separate book in the Belarusian (2nd edition, \r\nVilna), Russian, French, German and Polish languages for its submission by the \r\nBNR government to foreign ambassadors and missions with the purpose of \r\nrecognition of the Belarusian sovereignty
\r\n– departure from Kiev in December 1919 because of the breakdown of the Kiev University and the Kiev Archaeological Institute and another seizure of power \r\nby \r\nthe Bolsheviks <\/p>\r\n

<\/a>Kerch (1920)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

– worked in the Kerch museum as a lecturer on archaeology
\r\n– met his future wife Nadezhda Markianovna, daughter of an archivist in the \r\nKerch museum, who formerly studied at the University of Dijon and taught in high \r\nschool\u00a0
\r\n– opening of the Bosporus University of Kerch in March 1920, organized on the \r\ninitiative of Dovnar-Zapolsky, its rector and \r\nlecturer
\r\n– taken ill and then arrested after the Bolsheviks took power in the Crimea, \r\nescaped the revolutionary tribunal, and was transported under guard to Kharkov in the \r\nend of 1920
\r\n <\/p>\r\n

<\/a>Kharkov (1920-1922)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

1920 <\/b>
\r\n– released from arrest in the end of 1920 thanks to staying in hospital and \r\nwith the assistance of his family and friends
\r\n– professor at the Kharkov Institute of Public Education (Soviet model of former \r\nKharkov University) and the Kharkov Institute of National Economy
\r\n– chairman of the technical and economic council at the People’s Commissariat of \r\nWorkers and Peasants Inspection of Ukraine
\r\n– consultant at the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Trade of the Ukrainian SSR\u00a0
\r\n– English publication of the theoretical and political essay \r\n\u00abThe foundations of Belarusian statehood\u00bb (Paris)
\r\n1921<\/b>
\r\n– invitation (the first one) by the BSSR Government to move to Belarus was \r\nrefused on health grounds despite understanding \u00abhis obligation to be in Minsk\u00bb
\r\n1922, February<\/b>
\r\n– invitation to the newly created University of Azerbaijan
\r\n <\/p>\r\n

<\/a>Baku (1922-1925)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

1922<\/b>
\r\n– one of the organizers of Azerbaijan University, professor at the department of \r\nthe history of economy, first rector of the university
\r\n– professor at the Baku Politechnical Institute
\r\n– chief of the trade and commerce administration at the People’s Commissariat of \r\nIndustry and Trade of the Azerbaijani SSR
\r\n– founder and director of the Museum of Agriculture, Trade and Industry of \r\nAzerbaijan
\r\n– publication of works mainly of economic character in Azerbaijani mass media: \u00abState \r\nof the world market\u00bb, \u00abWorld market and the economy of Germany\u00bb, \u00abAdministration \r\nin conditions of NEP\u00bb, \r\n\u00abNEP and NAP\u00bb, \u00abOn the eve of the Genoa Conference\u00bb, \u00abRussian-German treaty\u00bb, \u00abForeign \r\ntrade of the RSFSR in 1921\u00bb, \u00abOn issues of trade regulation\u00bb, \u00abOn issues of \r\ncustoms policy\u00bb etc.
\r\n1923<\/b>
\r\n– publication of the book \u00abCommercial and industrial museums\u00bb (Baku)
\r\n– publication of the article \u00abOn question of the industrial bank\u00bb (\u00abBakinsky \r\nrabochy\u00bb
\r\n1924<\/b>
\r\n– speech at the open session of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Azerbaijan \r\nUniversity \u00abV.I. Ulyanov-Lenin as a scholar\u00bb (on the occasion of \r\nhis death)
\r\n– elected as permanent member of the Institute of Belarusian Culture (Inbelkult) \r\nas \u00aban outstanding member of the science community\u00bb
\r\n1925<\/b>
\r\n– publication of Dovnar-Zapolsky’s speech at the session of the Faculty of \r\nNatural Sciences at Azerbaijan \r\nUniversity \u00abV.I. Ulyanov-Lenin as a \r\nscholar\u00bb
\r\n– publication of the study \u00abAdministration and court under Nicholas I\u00bb (Baku)<\/p>\r\n

<\/a>Minsk (1925-1926)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

1925<\/b>
\r\n– moved to Minsk on the invitation of the BSSR People’s Commissariat of \r\nEducation and the Institute of Belarusian Culture (Inbelkult)
\r\n– founder and chief of the archaeographical commission at the History and \r\nArchaeology Section of the Institute of Belarusian Culture, whose main tasks \r\nincluded restitution of Belarusian archives and publication of the \r\nLithuanian Metrica
\r\n– supervised the compilation of the first large volume of \r\n\u00abBelarusian archives\u00bb \u2013 a book of collected legal documents of the Lithuanian \r\nMetrica (16th and 17th cc.) and the academic edition of the Archaeography \r\nCommission which included materials from the Minsk, Warsaw, Moscow and Mogilev \r\narchives\u00a0
\r\n– publication in Belarusian mass media of articles \u00abLithuanian Metrica: [On \r\nthe return to Belarus and publication of documents]\u00bb, \u00abOn the Belarusian \r\nlanguage at the time of Skoryna: historical essay\u00bb, \u00abFederation or \r\ncentralization?: \r\n(an essay\u00a0 on the ideology of the Decembrists)\u00bb
\r\n– member of the economic commission at the State Planning Committee of the BSSR, \r\nsimultaneously involved in the industrial commission
\r\n– chief of the editorial and publishing section at the State Planning Committee \r\nof the BSSR, which published the magazine \u00abSocialist Construction\u00bb, a \r\nnewsletter of the State Planning Committee, and the weekly \u00abNational Economy of \r\nthe BSSR\u00bb
\r\n– professor at the Belarusian State University from 1 October 1925, \r\ntaught the history of Russian economy at the Faculty of Law and Economy and the \r\nhistory of Belarus at the Faculty of Pedagogy
\r\n– prepared for publication the study \u00abNational Economy of Belarus in 1861-1914\u00bb\r\n
\r\n– completed the fundamental work \u00abA History of Belarus\u00bb, \r\nwhich examined the path of the Belarusian people from the primitive communal \r\nsystem to the early 1920s
\r\n1926<\/b>
\r\n– participated at the First Congress of Researchers of Belarusian Archaeology \r\nand Archaeography in January 1926 as the congress chairman, delivered reports on \r\nBelarusian archival holdings outside the BSSR, which resulted in a special resolution \r\nappealed to the government on the necessity of the immediate return of the \r\narchives to the BSSR; publication of lists of \r\nBelarusian old archives held in the RSFSR and Poland in the congress papers
\r\n– critical review of Dovnar-Zapolsky’s work \u00abA History of Belarus\u00bb \r\nby the chief of the press department at the CP(b)B Central Committee V. Serbenta (later \r\ndirector at the Institute of Party History at the CP(b)B Central Committee), \r\nwhich started reprisals against the scholar and a monthly examination of the\u00a0 \r\nissue on Dovnar-Zapolsky \r\n(from January to July 1926) at the Bureau of the \r\nCP(b)B Central Committee\u00a0
\r\n– resolution of the closed session of the Bureau of the CP(b)B Central Committee \r\nof 28 January 1926 banning the publication of Dovnar-Zapolsky’s book \u00abA History \r\nof Belarus\u00bb \u00abas expressing the position of Belarusian nationalist democratism \r\nand essentially distorting the history of Belarus\u00bb
\r\n– resolution of the session of the Bureau of the CP(b)B Central Committee of 4 \r\nFebruary 1926 \u00abOn the commission about Dovnar-Zapolsky’s \u00abtheory\u00bb, which contained the \r\ndemand of \u00absystematic refutation of Belarusian nationalist democratism according \r\nto Dovnar-Zapolsky’s book\u00bb by famous Party members and writers
\r\n– resolution of the commission of the CP(b)B Central Committee of 4 February 1926 \r\non the Belarusian intelligentsia and the Inbelkult, containing the decision to \r\nremove Dovnar-Zapolsky from work at the Belarusian State University
\r\n– report \u00abRegional studies in the field of history and archaeology\u00bb at the First \r\nAll-Belarusian Congress of Local Studies in February 1926 \r\n(published in the congress papers)
\r\n– resolutions of the Secretariat and Bureau of the CP(b)B Central Committee in \r\nMarch 1926 on organization of Dovnar-Zapolsky’s departure from the BSSR and \r\npublication of critical articles concerning his book \u00abA History of Belarus\u00bb
\r\n– resolution of the closed session of the Bureau of the CP(b)B Central Committee \r\nof 2 April 1926 in view of the unfulfillment of previous decisions on \u00abDovnar-Zapolsky’s \r\ncase\u00bb to organize his exit outside the BSSR not later than 1 June 1926 and on measures to purchase the scholar’s library
\r\n– attempts by the chairman of the the BSSR State Planning \r\nCommittee S. Karp [and the administration of the Belarusian State University and \r\nthe Inbelkult] to cancel the Party’s decision on Dovnar-Zapolsky’s expulsion \r\nfrom the BSSR and \r\nthe negative decision at the closed session of the Bureau of the CP(b)B Central \r\nCommittee of 11 June 1926
\r\n– publication of the first issue of the weekly \r\n\u00abNational Economy of the BSSR\u00bb edited by Dovnar-Zapolsky
\r\n– publication of the monograph\u00a0 \u00abNational Economy of Belarus \r\nin 1861-1914\u00bb, with positive reviews by historians and economists
\r\n– publication of the study \u00abThe dynamics of \r\nthe economy of the BSSR\u00bb (journal \u00abSoviet Construction\u00bb) and the report of the BSSR State Planning Committee \u00abRegionalization \r\nin Belarus\u00bb
\r\n– forced resignation\u00a0by Dovnar-Zapolsky from the Belarusian State University from 1 \r\nOctober 1926
\r\n– Dovnar-Zapolsky’s departure from Minsk to Moscow in the autumn of 1926; the \r\nmajor part of his personal library (over 11,000 volumes) was transferred to the Institute of \r\nBelarusian Culture
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<\/a>Moscow (1926-1934)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

1926<\/b>
\r\n– professor at the K. Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (the course of economic \r\ngeography)
\r\n– teacher at the G. Plekhanov Institute of National Economy (the course of the \r\nhistory of commerce)
\r\n– employee at the History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
\r\n– chairman of the historical and economic section at the Academic Association of \r\nEastern Studies at the Central Executive Committee of the USSR
\r\n– employee at the Moscow Province Planning Commission
\r\n– employee at the Research Institute of Fur Trade at the People’s Commissariat \r\nof Foreign Trade of the USSR
\r\n– study of issues in industrial cooperation and artisan crafts
\r\n– publication of the work \u00abThe balance of national \r\neconomy on the district scale\u00bb (\u00abEconomic construction\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the work \u00abPaper industry in Russia\u00bb
\r\n1927<\/b>
\r\n– publication of the last significant work \u00abThe \r\neconomic review of the BSSR. Agriculture, industry, trade\u00bb (in the 5th volume of \r\nthe Great Soviet Encyclopaedia under the entry for \u00abBelarusian SSR\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of a \r\nhistorical overview \u00abOn the jubilee of Belarusian book printing\u00bb and the article \r\n\u00abThe social and economic structure of the Lithuanian-Belarusian state in the \r\n16th-18th centuries\u00bb (Inbelkult’s \u00abHistorical and archaeological compendium\u00bb)
\r\n– publication in Minsk of the first volume of \u00abBelarusian Archives\u00bb \u2013 a \r\ncompendium of legal documents of the Lithuanian Metrica 16th-17th cc. (the \r\nfirst archaeographic edition in Belarus in the Soviet period), compiled under \r\nthe direction of Dovnar-Zapolsky
\r\n1928<\/b>
\r\n– publication of the book \u00abThe USSR by districts: Western District (Belarusian \r\nSSR and Western Region of the RSFSR)
\r\n– publication of the article \u00abThe struggle for bread in \r\nItaly\u00bb (\u00abAgrarian problems\u00bb)
\r\n– publication of the article \u00abMerchandise resources in \r\ntextile industry\u00bb (\u00abCommercial issues\u00bb)
\r\n1929<\/b>
\r\n– \u00abThe Slavonic Review\u00bb (London) regarded Dovnar-Zapolsky among seven Belarusian \r\nscholars whose opinion must be taken into account in the scholarly world \r\nof Slavic studies
\r\n– Ukraine’s Party bodies had blocked the proposal by the presidium of the \r\nAcademy of Sciences of Ukraine on Dovnar-Zapolsky’s election as its honorary \r\nmember\u00a0
\r\n– publication of a critical article on the \r\nhistorical roots of National Democratism in Dovnar-Zapolsky’s works (newspaper \r\n\u00abZvyazda\u00bb)
\r\n– celebration session at the history section of the Belarusian Academy of \r\nSciences dedicated to 45 years of Dovnar-Zapolsky’s scholarly activity
\r\n– Moscow and Leningrad scholars nominated Dovnar-Zapolsky for election to the \r\nAcademy of Sciences of the USSR; prominent scholars repeatedly appealed to the \r\nBSSR government with a high appraisal of his activities
\r\n– resolution of the Bureau of the CP(b)B Central Committee on the information by \r\nV. Ignatovsky about \r\nDovnar-Zapolsky’s nomination to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (14 June 1929), \r\ncontaining an explicit refusal
\r\n1930<\/b>
\r\n– The History Institute of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences blocked Dovnar-Zapolsky’s \r\nelection as a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR based on his \r\nbeing \r\nmentioned in the so-called \u00abAcademic Affair of Platonov\u2013Tarle\u00bb
\r\n– resolution of the plenary session of the CP(b)B Central Committee(October 1930) \r\non the counter-revolutionary organization \r\n\u00abThe Union of Liberation of Belarus\u00bb, which critisized Dovnar-Zapolsky’s views \r\non the October Revolution and the role of peasantry in it
\r\n– resolution \u00abOn the situation at the historical front in the BSSR and the tasks of \r\nMaxist historians\u00bb (14 November 1930), in which Dovnar-Zapolsky was called a \r\ntypical representative of the bourgeoisie and landowners in his views on the \r\nhistory of Belarus, connected with \u00abRussian great-power chauvinism and even \r\npartly with clerical Black-Hundred chauvinism\u00bb
\r\n1931<\/b>
\r\n– joint plenary session of the CP(b)B Central Committee and Central Control \r\nCommission in April 1931, where Dovnar-Zapolsky was called a counter-revolutionary \r\nand one of the ideologists of Belarusian nationalism
\r\n– criticism of Dovnar-Zapolsky in the magazine \u00abSavetskaya kraina\u00bb (\u21167), where \r\nhe was called \u00aban official historian of nationalist democrats\u00bb
\r\n1932<\/b>
\r\n– article by S. Volfson in the book \u00abScience at the service of the nationalist \r\ndemocratic counter-revolution\u00bb accused Dovnar-Zapolsky as \u00aban ideological father\u00bb of nationalist democrats
\r\n1934<\/b>
\r\n– political charges against the whole historical school of Dovnar-Zapolsky, \r\nwhich was accused \r\nof both Ukrainian-Belarusian nationalism, Russian great-power \r\nchauvinism, and national fascism at the same time
\r\n– article by A. Ogloblin, former pupil of \r\nDovnar-Zapolsky, in September 1934, criticized his activities and accused him of nationalism and \r\nfascism\u00a0
\r\n– Dovnar-Zapolsky died of heart attack on 30 September 1934, was buried at the Donskoye cemetery in Moscow
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