«... For everyone you will find advice or help»: letters of the sisters of Efimovsky S.F. Platonov

Abstract

Among the large number of folders with epistolary materials stored in the personal fund of academician S.F. Platonov, there are a lot of cases with letters from students of the High School of Life (B) K and ZhPI, where women received higher education. Administrative and teaching career of S.F. Platonov is closely associated with these educational institutions, where he went from a teacher to the head of the educational department (dean) in the first and was appointed director in the second. Letters from the Efimovsky sisters - representatives of the impoverished nobility: Zinaida, a student of the Courses and Elena - graduates of the ZhPI, present not without an interesting example of the communicative ties of Professor S.F. Platonov with her students. The time frame of the letters covers the period of study and the initial stage of their independent life. The content of the correspondence allows you to determine the manner of writing letters, their subject matter, to form an idea of ​​\ u200b \ u200bthe character traits of the sisters, their rather difficult everyday life, the trajectory of studies and hobbies, to determine the values ​​that they preferred. The published letters, saturated with information and specific facts, allow us to concretize certain little-known pages of the organization of the educational process in the Higher School of Education (B) K and in the ZhPI, to see the style and forms of communication of S.F. Platonov and his pupils, who were familiar with members of his family, also visited at home. A lot of information is provided about the socio-political situation during the First Russian Revolution and the First World War, the level of education in the first years of Soviet power.