Frantsev, Vladimir Andreevich

Born in 1867 in the Novogeorgievsky fortress in the family of a medicinal assistant of the Novogeorgievsky hospital. He studied at the Russian gymnasium in Warsaw , in 1887-1890 - at the Imperial University of Warsaw at the Faculty of History and Philology, after his graduation he taught Russian, Russian literature, history and geography at the Warsaw 2nd Women's Gymnasium. In 1892 he defended his thesis “Tales and Songs about Noble Animals”, and in parallel with his work in the gymnasium, he became a scholarship holder at the Imperial University of Warsaw, preparing to receive the title of professor.

In 1897-1900 he was on a business trip abroad to prepare a master's thesis. Since 1900, he was appointed assistant professor in the department of the history of Slavic dialects and literature at the Imperial University of Warsaw. After defending his master's thesis “Essays on the History of the Czech Renaissance” in 1902, Frantsev was appointed an extraordinary professor in 1903, and having defended his doctoral dissertation “Polish Slavic Studies of the late XVIII and the first quarter of the XIX century” in 1906, he became an ordinary professor in 1907.

In 1904, V.A. Frantsev was elected a foreign member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts. With the outbreak of World War I, the Imperial University of Warsaw was transferred to Rostov-on-Don , where Frantsev was deprived of the opportunity to engage in scientific work. In 1915, he was elected a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the Department of Russian Language and Literature.

From the Soviet authorities, Frantsev received permission to travel to Poland , from where he left for Czechoslovakia . November 10, 1921 he arrived in Prague , where he received the position of full professor of Slavic philology at Charles University . At the same time, news came from Petrograd that the department of the Russian language and literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences on November 9, 1921, elected him its full member. However, V.A. Frantsev refused this title, in 1927 adopted Czechoslovak citizenship and was expelled from the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences due to non-attendance of its meetings. Meanwhile, for an active study of the connection of Russian scientists and writers with Western and Southern Slavs, he was elected a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In contacts with the Russian colony in Prague, Frantsev shied away from political problems, and if he spoke at public events, then only with lectures on topics of a professional plan.

Despite full adaptation to the Czech environment, Frantsev actively participated in organizing the scientific life of the Russian emigration. He represented Russian emigration at international congresses and other forums, published articles and other works in emigrant publications. He was the chairman of the Russian Academic Group in Prague, and was a member of the committee for organizing the 1st Congress of the Union of Russian Academic Organizations Abroad, held in Prague on October 10, 1921. Frantsev was elected a member of the board of the congress and fellow chairman. At the second congress of the Union of Russian Academic Organizations in October 1922, V. A. Frantsev read a report and was elected to the congress board. The third congress of Russian academic organizations was held from September 25 to October 2, 1924 also in Prague. Here Frantsev read a report on the main stages in the development of Russian-Czech scientific ties in the 18th-19th centuries. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1926 P.N.Krasnova and in 1931-33. I.A. Bunina ^[1]

Since 1930, V. A. Frantsev was a member of the Slavic Institute , where he worked actively with other scholars on the publication of documents on Slavic ties. In 1937 he retired, but continued to work at the Slavic Institute, ceasing to attend it only after Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Germans, who took control of the institute. He was buried at the Olshansky cemetery in Prague.

• Prize to them. A. A. Kotlyarevsky of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences

• "BUT. S. Pushkin in Czech literature ”(1898)
• "The most important moments in the development of Czech Slavic studies" (1901)
• "N. V. Gogol in Czech literature ”(1902)
• Essays on the History of the Czech Renaissance (1902)
• "Polish Slavic studies of the late XVIII and first quarter of the XIX century."
• "Letters from Vyacheslav Ganka from the Slavic lands" (1905)
• "Correspondence of P. Y. Shafarik with Russian scientists" (1927-1928, in Czech)
• “Pushkin and the Polish Uprising of 1830-1831” (1929)
• The last scholarly journey of Count Jan Potocki 1805-1806. From materials for his biography. Prague, 1938.

• Lapteva L.P. V.A. Frantsev. Biographical sketch and classification of works // Slavia. Časopis pro slovanskou filologii. 1966. Seš. 1. S. 79-95.
• Lapteva L.P. V. A. Frantsev as a historian of Slavism // Slavic historiography. / Ed. I. M. Belyavskaya et al. - M.: Publishing House of Moscow State University , 1966. - P. 204-246.
• Pashuto V.T. Russian emigrant historians in Europe. / Ans. ed. B.V. Levshin ; entry articles by E. A. Melnikova , M. K. Shatsillo . - M .: Nauka , 1992. - S. 60–62, 183–184 et passim - ISBN 5-02-008596-0
• Dostal M. Yu. From the correspondence of V. A. Frantsev (Letter to V. A. Frantsev V. S. Ikonnikov , letters from A. V. Florovsky to V. A. Frantsev) // Slavic Studies , 1994, No. 4.
• Olonova E. On the background of the 1933 Nobel Prize . (Letters from P. B. Struve and I. A. Bunin to V. A. Frantsev, 1930-1933) // Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian emigration to Czechoslovakia between the two world wars. Results and prospects of the research. Funds of the Slavic Library and the Prague Archives. Pr., 1995.S. 321-329.
• Lapteva L.P. Russian Slavic V.A. Frantsev and the circumstances of his emigration from Russia. // Rossica. II. Pr., 1997. S. 55-62.
• Robinson M. A. The Fates of the Academic Elite: Russian Slavic Studies (1917 - early 1930s). - M .: Indrik , 2004 .-- ISBN 5-85759-294-1
• Andreyev C. , Savický I. Russia Abroad. Prague and the Russian Diaspora, 1918-1938. New Haven, L., 2004. P. 83, 97, 103.
• Lapteva L.P. Vladimir Andreevich Frantsev (1867-1942) - Russian researcher of inter-Slavic scientific ties in the 19th century // New and modern history. - 2016. - No. 3. - S. 146-165.

• Lyudmila Lapteva “Vladimir Frantsev and Czech Slavic Studies”
• Frantsev, Vladimir Andreyevich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Profile of Vladimir Andreevich Frantsev on the official website of the RAS