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Dmitriy Sergeevich Lihachev
Дмитрий Лихачёв
Birth at
28 November 1989
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If a person has the titles of Doctor of Oxford University, University of Bordeaux, Sofia University and the Universities of Zurich, is elected a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Italy, a corresponding member of the British Academy and many other universities with a world reputation, then he has, at least, world fame. We are talking about Dmitry Likhachev, a native (and convinced) Leningrader, about whom in all imaginable
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If a person has the titles of Doctor of Oxford University, University of Bordeaux, Sofia University and the Universities of Zurich, is elected a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Italy, a corresponding member of the British Academy and many other universities with a world reputation, then he has, at least, world fame. We are talking about Dmitry Likhachev, a native (and convinced) Leningrader, about whom in all imaginable encyclopedias it is said “Soviet and Russian philologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences”. He is the owner of a huge number of awards, orders and titles, which we simply do not have the opportunity to list. Let's just say that his name is named minor planet No. 2877 - Likhachev-1969 TR2. Peru Likhachev owns about a thousand scientific and journalistic works, the most significant of which were translated into all languages of the world.
Dmitry Likhachev was born in November 1906 in the family of a talented engineer Sergei Likhachev, and died at the age of 92, in September 1999, and was buried in the Komarovo cemetery.
Dmitry Sergeevich entered the Roman-German and Slavic-Russian sections of the Faculty of Social Sciences of LSU and at his graduation wrote two diploma papers: the unofficial one about the “Tales of Patriarch Nikon” and the official one – “Shakespeare in Russia in the XVIII century”. However, the diploma was awarded to Likhachev’s relatives, since he himself was under investigation at that time. The reason for his arrest was his participation in the student "Space Academy", the main principle of which was the search for truth, clothed "in a cheerful form." Here Likhachev headed the department of “melancholic philology”, where he made a report on the advantages of the old pre-revolutionary orthography. As a result, in February 1928, Likhachev was “convicted for 5 years for counter-revolutionary activities.”
Dmitry Likhachev is known not only as a philologist and historian, who made a huge contribution to the study of ancient Russian literature, but also as a public figure. From 1986 to 1993, he headed the Soviet (and since 1991 – Russian) Foundation for Culture. The Palace Square remembers how in August 1919 Likhachev spoke at a rally of thousands, after which Leningrad refused to submit to the State Emergency Committee. He actively advocated the transfer of the Orthodox Church of the Valaam and Solovetsky monasteries.
In 1993, Dmitry Sergeyevich was the first to be awarded the title of “Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg”. But few people know that a century and a half before that, his great-grandfather P. P. Likhachev received the title of “Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg” for donating 3,000 sabers to Russian troops fighting the Turks in Bulgaria. /