The Fate of a Person and the Fate of a Book: Nikolai Schnakenburg and the Volume “The Soviet Eskimos”
[Sud’ba cheloveka i sud’ba knigi: Nikolai Schnakenburg i kniga “Eskimosy SSSR”]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 27.04.2024
Accepted: 06.06.2024
About author(s)
Nikolai Vakhtin | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4011-2141 | vakhtin@eu.spb.ru | European University at St. Petersburg (6/1A Gagarinskaya St., St. Petersburg, 191187, Russia)
Keywords
history of ethnography, Nikolai Schnakenburg, Vladimir Bogoras, Chukotka, Yupik Eskimos, Stalin purges
Abstract
The article describes the biography of the young ethnographer Nikolai Borisovich Schnakenburg (1907–1941), a student of Vladimir Bogoras, who worked in Chukotka in 1930–1933 and was killed at the war frontlines near Leningrad in 1941. Until now, his life and work remained understudied. The article further examines the question of the authorship of an unpublished manuscript “The Soviet Eskimos”, the first comprehensive report on the Siberian Yupik people. The article is based on the documents discovered in the family archives of Schnakenburg’s descendants.
Funding Information
Russian Science Foundation, https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006769 [grant no. 22-18-00238]
Citation
Vakhtin, N.B. 2024. Sud’ba cheloveka i sud’ba knigi: Nikolai Schnakenburg i kniga “Eskimosy SSSR” [The Fate of a Person and the Fate of a Book: Nikolai Schnakenburg and the Volume “The Soviet Eskimos”]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 5: 177–199. https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869541524050109 EDN: ARUELZ
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