Российское византиноведение в первые послереволюционные десятилетия: Византийская комиссия (1918-1930)
Russian Byzantine Studies in the first post-revolutionary decade: Byzantine Commission (1918-1930)

Summary/Abstract: The Russian-Byzantine Commission that was created within the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1918 exemplified the lasting contribution to the field that the Russian scholars of Byzantium had made in the early twentieth century. The Commission initially aimed to edit and translate into Russian the texts related to the rule of Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and to publish an encyclopedic dictionary of the tenth- and eleventh-century Byzantine empire. In 1923 it also sought to continue the project of publishing the new, revised Medieval Greek Dictionary of Du Cange that the International Union of Academies had first proposed in 1913. In 1925 the Commission was joined by the group of scholars who studied the treaties between Byzantium and Russians in the tenth century. This Commission played an important role in helping Russian scholars of Byzantium to preserve this discipline in the early Soviet environment.

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