"To be Worthy of Representing Russian Science". On the 100th Anniversary of the Publishing Committee for the "Russian Science" Collection
The paper analyzes important issues of the work of the Publishing Committee for the “Russian Science” collection, which was initiated by Academician A. S. Lappo-Danilevsky in December 1916. The “Russian Science” collection should have been consisted of accounts on the history of different sciences. Unfortunately, the war and revolutionary devastation of the country prevented this collective work from being completed. The project remained unfinished. the Publishing Committee for the “Russian Science” collection laid the solid foundation for the further development of the studies on the history of science in Russia and set the stage for the arrangement of the Committee on the History of Knowledge on the 14th of May, 1921. In its turn this Committee became the basis for the establishment of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences is the legal successor of the later.