The plot "prompted" by Andrey Kovalevsky

Abstract

The paper studies the initial phase of the interest in the East in Kharkiv in the 18th century as well as the definition of forms and areas of the interest. For the first time the issue of Oriental Studies origins in Kharkov in the 18th century was stated by an outstanding scientist-orientalist Andrey Kovalevsky. On the basis of new sources and approaches of cultural and intellectual history the observation of the scientist is complemented that the first such East passions center in Kharkiv was Kharkiv College.