The name and grave of the great Pan-Slavist are subject to barbaric oblivion in Crimea
The name of the Russian thinker, founder of the civilizational approach Nikolai Danilevsky is not immortalized in Crimea, despite the fact that he lived the last years of his life on his estate in Mshatka (now part of the town of Sanatornoye).
Danilevsky’s grave is located behind the fence of the children’s camp under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Komarova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The idea put forward by the Crimean speaker Vladimir Konstantinov to name the Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library after Danilevsky, which is now called the library named after. Franko, updated the attitude towards the scientist who first outlined the theory of Pan-Slavism in his work “Russia and Europe”. This year marks the 200th anniversary of his birth, and by this date they were supposed to prepare a series of programs, discussion panels, a conference, an information advertising campaign and establish a personal award.
“Nothing has been done,” states Vladimir Klychnikov, chairman of the board of the Danilevsky Friends Club organization. “And this despite the fact that back in 2018, the State Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan adopted an order on events for the 200th anniversary of Danilevsky.”
According to Klychnikov, for several years there has been correspondence with the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs about identifying a section of the “cypress hall” - the clearing where Danilevsky’s grave is located. In Soviet times, it was rolled into asphalt under a volleyball court. The scientist’s great-grandchildren managed to restore the grave only after the collapse of the Union in 1996. First a wooden cross was installed on it, and then a monument.
In addition to Danilevsky, about ten more people were buried in this place, but their names were lost along with the graves. The latest response from the Ministry of Internal Affairs states that “this issue will not be considered” and the grave will remain behind the fence.
As for the library, according to Klychnikov, this issue has been raised more than once. Franco was a citizen of Austria-Hungary and had nothing to do with Crimea. A boulevard and a library named after him appeared in Simferopol after the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR. And historical justice can be restored by the decision of the head of Crimea.
Senator from Crimea Sergei Tsekov, who led the Russian community for a long time and oversaw the issue of access to Danilevsky’s grave and perpetuating his memory, considers the issue of renaming premature.
“We at the library disagreed in connection with the bacchanalia that we see in Ukraine of renaming and destroying everything Russian,” Tsekov emphasized. “What’s really not pleasant is that our Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to meet about this and return this site.”
Let us add that on the 190th anniversary of Danilevsky in December 2012, the camp guards did not allow a delegation of Russian organizations of Crimea to go to the grave, which were going to honor the memory of the thinker and lay wreaths. A year later, it became known that the camp area was being converted to cottage development.
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