Bitsilli, Peter Mikhailovich

Born in Odessa on September 13, 1879 in a noble family.

In 1905 he graduated from Novorossiysk University . He was left at the university in the department of general history to prepare for the master's degree, he passed the master's exam in 1910 .

He was a student of E. N. Shchepkina

In 1912, at St. Petersburg University, he defended his thesis on “Salimbene. Essays on the Italian culture of the 13th century. " After which he becomes a privat-docent, and then an extraordinary professor at Novorossiysk University in Odessa. He taught the history of Western Europe at the Odessa Higher Women's Courses.

In his studies, Bicilli pays particular attention to the spiritual and religious culture, symbolism and hierarchy of medieval man.

In 1920 he emigrated to Serbia , taught at the University of Skopje . The years spent in Skopje are the most unexplored period in the life of a scientist. The only sources about him were recently published in the book by T. N. Galcheva and I. V. Golubovich “Little by little I adapt to“ independent circumstances. ”P. M. Bicilli and the Florovsky family in the first years of emigration" (Sofia: Sun, 2015 ) In 1924, P. M. Bicilli moved to Bulgaria, where he was elected head of the department of modern and contemporary history of Sofia University and for 33 years headed the department of modern history of Western Europe. He was a member of the Russian Academic Union until the dissolution of its branch in Bulgaria on September 9, 1944 . In 1946-1948, three times with his wife he applied for Soviet citizenship, but each time an unmotivated refusal followed. At the end of 1948 after the expiration of the contract with the university prof. Bicilli was released without a pension. He died on August 25, 1953 and was buried in the Russian cemetery in Sofia.

• Western influence in Russia and the initial annals, 1914
• The fall of the Roman Empire, 1919
• Elements of medieval culture, part 1.2 1919
• Introduction to world history. Belgrade (1923)
• Essays on the theory of historical science. Prague, 1925
• Studies on Russian poetry. Prague, 1926
• Introduction to the study of new and recent history. Sofia, 1927. On the Bulgarian. language;
• Two Faces of Eurasianism, 1927
• The problem of life and death in the work of Tolstoy, 1929
• The problem of Russian-Ukrainian relations in the light of history. Prague, 1930
• Language and nationality // Proceedings of the V Congress of the Russian academic organization abroad. Part I. Sofia, 1932
• Place of the Renaissance in the history of culture, 1934
• To the question of the nature of Russian linguistic and literary development in modern times. Sofia, 1936
• Travel to Arzrum , “Belgrade Pushkin Collection”, Belgrade, ed. Russian Pushkin Committee in Yugoslavia, 1937.
• DOS milestones development of Europe. Sofia, 1940. On the Bulgarian. language;
• Chekhov's work: The experience of stylistic analysis. Sofia, 1942;
• Pushkin and pure poetry. Sofia, 1945;
• To the question of ext. form of the novel by Dostoevsky. Sofia, 1946;
• History of Russia from the beg. XIX century before the second revolution (1917). Sofia, 1947. On the Bulgarian. language;
• Gogol has a human problem. Sofia, 1948.
• "East" and "West" in the history of the Old World // Bicilli P. M. Selected works on philology. M., 1996
• At the origins of Russian social thought . Varna: LiterNet, 2005

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• Galcheva T.N., Golubovich I.V. “Little by little I am adapting to“ independent circumstances. ”P.M. Bitsilli and the Florovsky family in the first years of emigration. Sofia: Sun, 2015, 320 pp.
• P.M. B. Obituary // Historically Sofia, 1953. No. 5;
• Meshchersky A.P. P.M. B .: Bibliogr. feature article. 1953. One copy of the manuscript is stored in the IRLI (Pushkin House) RAS, the other remained in Bulgaria and published: http://savedarchives.net/en ;
• Kaganovich B.S.P. M. B. B. as a literary critic // Studia Slavica. Budapest. 1988. T. 34;
• Galcheva T. N. P. M. Bicilli - the experience of return // Bicilli P. M. Favorites. Historical and cultural studies. Sofia: Publishing house for the Ministry on the selected "St. George the Victorious"; University publishing house "Marine Drinov". 1993, S. 7-40. http://savedarchives.net/en/article/pmbicilli-opyt-vozvrashteniia
• Kaganovich B. S. P. M. B. as a cultural historian // Odysseus, 1993.M., 1994.
• Neroznak V.P. Petr Bitsilli - Another Homecoming. 1994.
• Shumeyko D.A. Publications P.M. Bicilli on the pages of the Izvestia Odessa Bibliographic Society // Notes from the History Department of the Odessa Sovereign University im. І.І. Mechnikov. - Odessa, 1999. - VIP. 10. - S. 51-58.
• M.A. Birman. "P. M. Bicilli (1879-1953). Strokes to the portrait of a scientist ”// P. M. Bicilli. Selected Works on Medieval History: Russia and the West. "M., 2006, pp. 633-712.
• Birman M.A. P.M. Bicilli (1879-1953). Life and art. M .: Aquarius, 2018.

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