Kievan Historical School

Abstract

The article is devoted to Kievan school in the historiography of the second half of the XIX — first third of the 20th century. New trends in the study of scholastic problems in recent years, including the anthropological approach (interest in personal relationships within schools, not only within the dichotomy of “teacher-students”, “intraschool” conflicts, etc.) are characterized. Taking new approaches into account, the origin, school structure, genetic interrelations between different parts of the general Kievan school are examined. Students of the founder of the school N. D. Ivanishev at St. Vladimir University (in the 1850s and 1860s) M. F. Vladimirsky-Budanov and F. I. Leontovich, as well as V. B. Antonovich, his student and successor in Kiev Commission for the analysis of ancient acts, formed the first generation of Kievan school. Students of Antonovich (A. M. Andriyashev, D. I. Bagalei, P. V. Golubovsky, A. S. and M. S. Grushevskies, V. E. Danilevich, M. V. Dovnar-Zapolsky, V. G. Lyaskoronsky, N. V. Molchanovsky) and Vladimirsky-Budanov (G. V. Demchenko, N. A. Maksimeyko, I. A. Malinovsky, A. Ya. Shpakov, M. N. Yasinsky) comprised the second generation of Kievan school. Vladimirsky-Budanov and his disciples, in addition to Leontovich and his student F. V. Taranovsky, shaped a special school of Western-Russian law in Russian historiography. Finally, the third generation of Kievan school was comprised by the students of M. V. Dovnar-Zapolsky (A. M. Gnevushev, F. Ya. Klimenko, B. G. Kurts, P. P. Smirnov, E. D. Stashevsky, N. F. Yanitsky and others). Their active scholarly work coincided with the 1910s — 1920s. The article explores ideological origins and organizational reasons for the emergence of the school. Similarities and differences between the schools of Dovnar-Zapolsky and Antonovich, deriving from each other, are shown. The article concludes that the school existed within the framework of a single all-Russian historiography.