Аннотация: The Paris Archives of Oleg Sokolov and Anastasia Eshchenko. A note.
The Paris Archives of Oleg Sokolov and Anastasia Eshchenko. A note.
Earlier, we drew attention to the trajectory of the fate of two qualified people - of the sea captain Boris Prokoshev and of the historian Oleg Sokolov.
It would seem that qualified people should work, to be useful workers, they should have a rest (if there is a desire and opportunity).
Alas. Captain Boris Prokoshev has now been put on the international wanted list ... "Now Grechushkin and Prokoshev are on the international wanted list." (https://www.spb.kp.ru/daily/27226/4351526/)
Historian Oleg Sokolov is awaiting consideration of the complaint ...
His the last word (December 14, 2020) contains a curious mention:
'It was too comfortable to be with a person who can take her to Paris whenever she wanted to, to Vienna, to Venice, to Prague. With a person who able to help to work in the Paris archives. " (https://spb.mk.ru/social/2020/12/15/zastrelite-menya-poslednee-slovo-istorikaraschlenitelya-olega-sokolova.html)
I wonder how many people in modern Russia are intellectually and organizationally capable of working in the Paris archives?
How many people are able to parse words in old documents in French (the language of the era of Napoleon I), analyze, draw conclusions? ...
Communicate productively with the archive staff? ..
Set the right scientific tasks? ...
In any case, there were two such people in Russia: Oleg Sokolov and Anastasia Yeshchenko ...
There are some more questions. For example, a person like Oleg Sokolov could to lead the movement of historical reconstruction? Why was he pushed aside? Why didn't he become a Doctor of Science - with all his numerous works and with the ability to teach in France? Why there was no a career promotion - for him - at his university? Why shouldn't he become a corresponding member or a full member of the Academy of Sciences - then, probably, the procedure in the registry office would have been easier and faster ... Why did he unnoticently for himself end up in a kind of social ghetto, where they were throwing rats under his door?
Or - questions about Anastasia Yeshchenko. A person who is able to work in the Paris archives looks at his actual husband and sees a person of the highest qualifications, who can be hounded with impunity in a variety of ways - will she not have doubts about the prospects of defending her own dissertation? And in general - in her own personal perspectives?
If we talk abstractly - not about Anastasia Yeshchenko - wouldn't it be natural for a young woman to have a childbearing process - especially if she has been living in a de facto marriage for a long time? And what decision should a young woman make in a situation of complete dependence and complete uncertainty? And if she decides to terminate the pregnancy, how will this affect her relationship with her de facto husband? ..
But back to Anastasia Yeschenko. Judging by the facts that were established during the court proceedings, she did not feel at all happy in the period before the incident.
And why? She is one of the exclusive specialists - there are no others (except for Oleg Sokolov himself). She is surely confident of success in defending her candidate dissertation. Moreover, the era of Napoleon I is one of the central historical themes (not like a secondary, little-known and very few interesting event somewhere in a remote area). It is quite possible that she will immediately be awarded the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences. A young, energetic, ardent, idealistic woman - let her work as director of the Institute of History at St. Petersburg University ...
Well, this is all - in a modern Russia - at the level of anecdotal assumptions. Delicious cakes go to others.
For qualified people - at least for Oleg Sokolov and Anastasia Yeshchenko - the other "gifts" were. - The mysterious, unidentified persons were throwing rats under Sokolov's door ...
Apparently, now the need is for completely different, another people ... with a different potential ...
[MCMXI. Historian Oleg Sokolov and the micro-version of the destruction of the intelligentsia. A history sketch. - December 20, 2020.].
February 18, 2021 11:59
Translation from Russian into English: February 18, 2021 20:48.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Парижские архивы Олега Соколова и Анастасии Ещенко. Заметка'.