«After All, We Have All Went Through So Much during this Time»: N.P. Likhachev’s Letters to V.I. Sreznevsky and A.I. Sobolevsky (1917–1934)

The letters of Academician Nikolai Petrovich Likhachev (1862–1936) to corresponding member of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences V.I. Sreznevsky (1917, 1934) and academician A.I. Sobolevsky (1918–1926), which are stored in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, are published for the first time. They reflected the difficult fate of the scientist in the first post-revolutionary period, his anxiety about the safety of his collection. Letters of the 1920s. They are mainly devoted to the affairs of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the celebration of its anniversary in 1925, the transformation into the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the relationship between members of the academic community.