Historical and cultural problems of northern countries and regions № 3 (47), 2019
Historical and cultural problems
of northern countries and regions
Scientific articles
DOI: 10.19110/1998-619Х-2019-3-13-28
E.K. Pekarsky: myth and reality
Shcherbakova T.A.1
Abstract. The article examines the biography of the famous scientist philologist, ethnographer, folklorist E.K. Pekarsky. Using various literary and archival sources, the author gives a modern interpretation of some distorted facts of the biography of the scientist. The problem of creating a complete scientific biography of the Honorary Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Eduard Karlovich Pekarsky (1858-1934) is being actualized.
Keywords: Eduard Karlovich Pekarsky, biography, Alexey Eliseevich Kulakovsky, Dictionary of the Yakut language, Sakha people.
1Shcherbakova Tat'iana Andreevna. Candidate of Science (Pedagogical), Associate Professor. Gorno-Altaysk, Russian Federation.
E-mail: ta.kug@mail.ru
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