International relations in Balkans in heritage of A. L. Pogodin, professor of Kharkiv Emperor’s University

Abstract

Aleksandr Lvovich  Pogodin (1872–1947) ) was a distinct authority in Russian Empire and European Slavic studies, Associate Professor of Universities of Saint Petersburg, Professor of Warsaw, Kharkiv, Belgrade Univesities. Though his generalizing works “History of Serbia” (1909) and “History of Bulgaria” (1910) the scholar published before his service term at Kharkiv Univirsity (1910–1919), he treated Balkans topics in some of his published articles and lecture courses.  Course “Lectures on Slavic Antiquities” (1910), particularly, its part relating to Balkans, actually summarized all achievements of Russian Empire historiography for 60 plus years. He disclosed main stages of political and cultural development of the largest Balkan ethnicities in his published textbook “Lectures on History of Serbian and Bulgarian Literature”» (1914). Though A. L.Pogodin did not share the convictions of Slavophils, some of their notions were reflected in his “Essays on History of Slavic Mutuality” (1910). He was the first of domestic historiographers to publish a generalizing “Brief Essay on Slavic History” (1915) and capital volume “Slavic World. Political and Economic Situation of Slavic Nations before the War of 1914” (1915). In his study of reasons and rates of formation of Medieval Slavic states A.L.Pogodin paid special attention to geographic factor. In the course of his Kharkiv period he also translated and published a book “History of Balkan Peninsula Christian States” by K.Roth  (1914).