E. G. KAGAROV: THE SCHOLAR IN ANCIENT HISTORY AND CULTURE DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY HARD TIMES
The article provides some biographical information and examines the activities of the Russian, then Soviet, scholar E. G. Kagarov from his University years in Odessa, then his educational foreign trip and his work at Kharkiv University to the beginning of the 1920s. The emphasis is placed on Kagarov’s relationship with his teacher - Professor E. von Stern, who moved in 1911 to Germany. Special attention is paid to how the scholar survived the revolutionary hard times. He continued his research and even published several works, including the most important study on ancient magic “Greek Curse Tablets”, released in January 1918. In September 1919, at the height of the civil war, when Kharkiv was occupied by Denikin’s army, E. G. Kagarov defended his thesis for the doctor’s degree in Greek literature at Kharkiv University, which allowed him to take the post of ordinary Professor next year. In 1922, already under the Soviet rule, he even managed to get a scientifc visit abroad to Germany for six weeks; maybe he met with his favorite teacher, von Stern. The article makes some assumptions about what prompted E. G. Kagarov to return to Soviet Russia.