Д. А. Эльяшевич V. S. Lyublinsky is an outstanding medieval historian, bibliologist, and specialist in paleography and the restoration of written monuments, who has worked for many years at the M. E. SaltykovShchedrin State Public Library. The figure of this scholar is of considerable interest not only because of his fundamental academic contributions, but also as an example of resilience under the most severe conditions of wartime. The primary aim of this article is to examine the scholar’s inner world, his experiences, everyday concerns, and intellectual aspirations during the first months of the siege of Leningrad. The principal source for this study consists of previously unpublished letters by V. S. Lyublinsky, written in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War and preserved in the scholar’s personal archival fond in the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Russia. The article presents and analyzes selected fragments of his correspondence with his wife, Alexandra Dmitrievna Lyublinskaya, who was in evacuation from 1941 to 1944.
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Российская национальная библиотека