A Scholar and Her Time (Toward an Academic Biography of Professor K.I. Kozlova)

Abstract

The article aims to expound an academic biography of K.I. Kozlova, one of the leading Russian ethnologists working in the field of Finno-Ugric studies. The author argues that K.I. Kozlova’s development as a professional ethnologist reflected to a large extent the history of Russian ethnological discipline not only at Moscow State University, to which the scholar’s entire career was tied, but also as a whole throughout the Soviet/Russian period; and that her works contributed greatly to the shaping of scholarship on ethnic and cultural history of Povolzhie and Ural peoples.