Vladimir Ivanovich Lamansky (1833–1914)

(To the death centenary of the famous slavist)

Abstract

The article covers the scholarly and teaching activities of Vladimir Lamansky. It draws attention to his outlook and active training of Slavists in Russia in the second half of the nineteenth – early twentieth centuries. It is noted that Lamansky – having brought-up numerous disciples – nevertheless could share his ideological and political views just with a few of them, and those were mainly representatives of the first generation of his students. Mainly, Slavists, who had been attending Lamansky’s course in the middle of the 1880s, had opposite views on historical process, or the history of the Slavs, and different political creed. Therefore, one could hardly speak of any “Lamansky school”, to which experts in Slavic history from his formers students belonged.