Ignaty Krachkovsky. A tribute to the 160th anniversary

Ignaty Krachkovsky was an outstanding orientalist and philologist specialising in Arabic poetry, Christian Arabic texts and modern Arabic literature. He was the founding father of the Soviet school of thought in Arabic studies. He was an editor of the first complete Russian-language edition of One Thousand and One Nights, a masterpiece of world literature. He did a commented Russian translation of the Holy Quran as the oldest literary text. Hundreds of his works on modern Arabic literature and the history of Arab culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries laid the foundation for research in these areas of Arabic studies both in Russia and abroad, even in the countries of the Arab East itself.

The exhibition will be devoted to his years as a student of the Faculty of Asian and African Languages at St Petersburg University. The list of exhibits will include Ignaty Krachkovsky’s personal belongings stored at the St Petersburg University History Museum.

The exhibition will be held on the Izi.travel platform.