Keep Forever. First Publication from A. P. Okladnikov's Personal Archives

Oksana V. YANSHINA

Unpublished archives of scholars have always presented an even greater interest than their published works since they allow insight into the sanctum, the creative laboratory of the researcher.

The archives of Aleksei Okladnikov that Elena Okladnikova, his daughter, transferred to the St-Petersburg branch of the RAS Archives are so large that if the folders were stacked one upon the other, the pile would be the height of a fourteen-storied building. I was lucky to sort out the archives and prepare the materials for registration and keeping. The more I plunged into the materials, the more puzzled I became: how could one person attain so much?

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