Historiographic Reflections in the Field of the Bitsilli Studies

The article examines the monograph by Israeli historian M. Birman “P. Bitsilli (1879– 1953). Life and Work”, which offers “a consolidated review of life work” Russian Bulgarian scholar humanist Peter Bitsilli. It is noted that was written in genre intellectual biography, conventional for historiography, when personal creative activities investigated historical figure are closely intertwined with broad cultural contexts era. emphasizes contrast to biographies people past widespread scholarly literature, this narrative centres around a person, whose name remained oblivion more than half century after his death, both academic sphere memory. Despite fact book poses many questions about daily activity scholar, it does not provide answers on basis research methods. grounded rich source base; similarly other modern studies, lacking information related considerable surviving number archival documents, materials would give regarding biography P. some shortcomings, omissions presentation material book, posed first time author have been addressed arouse genuine interest. One characteristic features reviewed work its bibliographic component.