Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии (Jan 2023)
“As a Researcher I Wanted to Get Away from the Contemporary Politics” A.V. Lipatov’s Memoirs in the Form of Interview
Abstract
At the request of the editors of the journal “The Slavic World in the Third Millennium”, Alexander Vladimirovich Lipatov (born 1937), Doctor of Philology, leading researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts, and member of the Presidium of the World Association of Polonists, describes his life and path in science. In 1957, Lipatov entered the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, but after studying for a year, he was recommended to continue his studies at the Faculty of Polish Studies at Warsaw University, from which he graduated in 1962 with a doctoral degree. After completing his postgraduate studies at Moscow State University, in 1965 he came to the Institute of Slavic Studies, with which the rest of his creative life was connected. Lipatov is a Polonist with a wide range of interests: his scientific interests include the key problems of the literature, culture, and history of Poland; Russian-Polish literary, cultural, and social relations; and the mutual perception of Russians and Poles. His works on Polish literature of the Baroque and Enlightenment eras, in which the literary process is placed in the context of a wide range of problems in the history of the gentry democracy of the Commonwealth, gained particular fame. Not limited to Polonist studies, Lipatov also dealt with problems of literary theory, the sociology of literature, and inter-Slavic relations. The research and editorial activities of Professor A. V. Lipatov for several decades were combined with teaching at the Russian State Humanitarian University and Polish universities (Torun, Krakow, etc.). Lipatov discusses his childhood during the war and the first post-war years, his youth, his studies at Warsaw University, his work at the Institute of Slavic Studies, and his numerous trips to Poland over many years.
Keywords
