“Without Your Work there Can Be no Archeology of the Crimea and the Chersonese”: M. Ja. Sjuzjumov and A. L. Jakobson Correspondence

Abstract

Correspondence between the Sverdlovsk byzantinist, professor M. Ja. Sjuzjumov (1893–1982) and the Leningrad archeologist A. L. Jacobson (1906–1984) for the first time in a historiography is published in article. Eight letters covering the period from 1969 to 1981 are stored in the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk region. The problem of a continuity of the Byzantine city is discussed them. Specialists communicated about results of archeological excavations, scientific monographs and also about pupils and prospects of further researches. In spite of the fact that it was corresponded in the atmosphere of rough discussions, Sjuzjumov and Jacobson’s scientific views often were opposite, letters had friendly character, were full of optimistic moods.

Keywords

• история византии, историография, м. я. сюзюмов, а. л. якобсон, континуитет, византийский город, херсонес.