V.V. Maikov and S.F. Platonov: parallels of cooperation
Communicative connections S.F. Platonov, named by a contemporary, Count S.D. Sheremetev "the prince of science", attracts the attention of modern researchers. He was in correspondence with hundreds of correspondents. One of them, whose letters are published for the first time, is the remarkable archaeographer V.V. Maikov is a representative of a well-known family that has given several prominent figures to Russian culture and science. He has worked at the Public Library for over 40 years, writing about manuscripts. These ties continued for almost four decades. As it turns out, their creative path has crossed many times in different institutions and educational institutions: at the Higher (Bestuzhev) Women's Courses, the Archaeological Department of the FON of Petrograd University, the Archaeographic Commission, scientific societies. They were united by a common love for manuscript monuments and selfless service to science. Published letters of V.V. Maikov and a small number of identified letters by S.F. Platonov allows us to state that they were bound by many years of friendship and cooperation, which, at times, were supplemented by joint projects. The information given in them is informative, original, allows us to expand our understanding of the activities of a number of scientific societies, to concretize the little-studied work of V.V. Maikov and supplement the activities of S.F. Platonov. In addition, they help to outline the circle of their contacts, both in the pre-revolutionary period and in the Soviet years.