Ivan Pavlovich Kozlovski and His “Chronicle”

Abstract. The manuscript from the private archive of the historian I.P. Kozlowski, entitled by the author as “Chronicles of my life” is published in the present edition for the first time. The scientific interests of I.P. Kozlovsky were closely connected with the history of the mailing business in Russia, as well as chronology and historiography. “The Chronicles” encompasses all periods of the biography of the scientist from 1869 till 1941 and reconstructs the story of I.P. Kozlowski life, known from other sources in general only. “The Chronicles” gives a broad picture of scientist’s versatile activity that took place, mainly at the Warsaw University, where he headed the Department of Russian history.  In different years I.P. Kozlovsky also worked in other institutions in Warsaw, Kiev, Nezhin, Novocherkassk, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, Uralsk. During the First World War he had headed the Bezborodko Institute of History and Philology in Nezhin and at the period of the Civil War became one of the first reformers of the archives in the Don region. In 1920-s he chaired the North Caucasus local society of archaeology, history and ethnography.  In 1931, he was arrested and exiled from Rostov-on-Don. He died in Uralsk, in 1942.

Keywords: Ivan Pavlovich Kozlovski, professor, historian, chronicle, Warsaw Imperial University, the department of Russian History, Kiev, Nezhin, Rostov-on-Don, Uralsk.