Malyshev V.I. (1910-1976), specialist in study of literature and archaeography

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MALYSHEV Vladimir Ivanovich (1910 - 1976, Leningrad), specialist in study of literature and archaeography, Honoured Academic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1972), PhD in Philology (1968). Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the State Leningrad University in 1939. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, he fought against Germans on the Leningrad front-line. Immediately after the war, he became a research fellow at the Institute of Russian Literature of the Academy of Science of the USSR. During his tenure, he resumed research of Old Russian manuscripts. In 1949, he founded the Pushkin House Archive of Ancient Books and Manuscripts, which now comprises over 10,000 manuscripts from the 12-20th centuries. He had a special interest in the manuscript legacy of archpriest Avvakum. He spent most of his time and effort searching for and writing descriptions of various collections of manuscripts, including private collections. Malyshev lived at 28 Torzhkovskaya Street, and was buried at the Serafimovskoe Cemetery.

References: Панченко А. М. В. И. Малышев как археограф // Археографический ежегодник за 1977 г. М., 1978. С. 214-218; Жуков Д. А. Владимир Иванович: Повесть. М., 1981.

M. V. Zakharova. Avvakum Petrovich
Malyshev Vladimir Ivanovich
Torzhkovskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 28
Панченко А. М. В. И. Малышев как археограф // Археографич. ежегодник за 1977 г. М., 1978
Жуков Д. А. Владимир Иванович: Повесть. М., 1981 State University, St. Petersburg
Leningrad Front
Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of
Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of
Seraphimovskoe Cemetery