The history of Russian Oriental studies seems to be becoming more and more fashionable in foreign Russian studies. Last year 2011 was particularly fruitful in this regard. In winter, Routledge published a collection edited by German orientalists Michael Kemper and Stefan Konerman, dedicated to the heritage of Soviet Oriental studies [The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies, 2011]. A few months later, in the spring, Oxford University Press published a monograph by Professor Vera Tolz of the University of Manchester ,entitled " The Russian East: Identity Politics and Oriental Studies of the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Times." Tolz was supposed to be one of the authors of the volume under the editorship of Kemper and Conermann, but chose for the first time to describe in detail the contribution of classical orientalism of the early twentieth century to imperial and Soviet nation-building in the Russian East in her monograph. * Tolts V. Russkiy Vostok: politika identichnosti i vostokovedenie imperskogo i rannego sovetskogo vremya [Russian East: Identity Politics and Oriental Studies of the Imperial and Early Soviet Times]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. X, 203 p. (Oxford Studies on Modern European History). page 212 The Baron W. R. Rosen school that Toltz is studying needs no introduction. Its founder, his students, and even their" native " correspondents and followers are well known in the history of science. Of course, this trend does not represent all the diversity of the palette of Russian orientalism in its heyday in the 1880s and 1920s. In addition to scientists of the academic Petersburg-Leningradsky direction, who were not related to Rosen's students, but were close to them in their views (among whom it is enough to mention the Sinologist V. M. Alekseev and the Japanese scholar N. I. Konrad), there were also graduates of the centers of Oriental studies in Moscow (Lazarevsky University) and Kazan (Kazan University and the Theological Academy) and oth ... Читать далее