Session Name: Along and Against the Archival Grain
Russians in Indonesia: the Discoveries of the Historian E.I. Gnevusheva
Monday, July 29, 2024
11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)
Paper Abstract: The historian Elizaveta Ivanovna Gnevusheva (1916-1994) who was a student and biographer of academician A.A. Guber worked for more than 30 years as an Associate Professor at the Department of History of SEA and the Far East of the Institute of Oriental Languages at Lomonosov Moscow State University (now ISAA). She read a course on the history of Indonesia, wrote numerious articles and sections on Indonesia in the textbook on the history on Asian and African countries, articles and books about A. A. Guber. However her main interests were related to the search for Russians who had visited Indonesia in the 19th and early 20th centuries with some scientific purposes or by chance found themselves and lived there for some time. Among them are both fampus scientists and travellers (N.N. Miklukho-Maklai, A.N. Krasnov, K.N. Davidov, V.N. Arnoldi, etc) and Russians of whose presence in Indonesia she manage to find out during her painstaking work in the Russian and Soviet archives (v. P. Maligin who participated in the anti-colobial uprising in Lombok in 1894; I. T. Blagov who in the 1920s participated in the building of the Surabaya port and others). Considerable attention was paid to the fate of A.S. Estrin and his ethnographic collections which he brought from Indonesia.
Presenter(s)
VP
Victor A. Pogadaev
Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia