Basovskaya E. Basovskaya Natalia Ivanovna. Area of ​​scientific interests and scope of scientific activity

Center for Visual Anthropology and Egohistory

Job title

Director of the Educational and Scientific Center for Visual Anthropology and Egohistory

Academic degree

Doctor of Historical Sciences (1988), Professor (1989)

State awards, honorary titles, gratitude

• Medal “In Memory of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow” (1997),
• Honorary title “Emerited Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities” (Academic Council of the Russian State University for the Humanities dated June 27, 2006, protocol No. 7).

Area of ​​scientific interests and scope of scientific activity

Specialist in the history of the Middle Ages in Western Europe. Deals with problems of the history of international relations in Western Europe in the 12th – 15th centuries, the political history of England and France, and the history of historical science.

Publications

Main publications:

• Economic interests of the English crown in Gascony at the end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th centuries / N.I. Basovskaya//Vestn. Moscow state un-ta. Ser. 9, History. – 1968. – No. 2. - P. 69-78.
• The place of fortified cities (bastides) in the Gascon politics of England at the end of the 13th century / N.I. Basovskaya//Ibid. – 1969. – No. 3. – P. 90-96.
• On the question of English policy in Gascony at the end of the 13th century: (according to the “Gascony Scrolls”) / N.I. Basovskaya // Middle Ages: collection / USSR Academy of Sciences, General Institute. stories; resp. ed. S.D. Skazkin. – M.: Nauka, 1971. – Issue. 33. – pp. 202-215.
• The policy of the English crown in relation to the feudal lords of Gascony at the end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th centuries: (English administration in Gascony) / N. I. Basovskaya//Europe in the Middle Ages: economics, politics, culture: collection. Art./AS USSR, Department of History; [editor: Z.V. Udaltsova (responsible editor), etc.]. – M.: Nauka, 1972. – P. 175-188.
• Organization and nature of the activities of the English administration in Gascony (late XIII - early XIV centuries) / N.I. Basovskaya // Middle Ages: collection / USSR Academy of Sciences, General Institute. stories; resp. ed. S.D. Skazkin. – M.: Nauka, 1973. – Issue. 37. – pp. 208-229.
• Problems of the Hundred Years' War in modern English and French historiography / N. I. Basovskaya // Ibid. – M., 1982. – Issue. 45. – pp. 212-224.
• Political struggle in England and France in the first half of the 15th century. and the Hundred Years' War / N. I. Basovskaya // Ideological and political struggle in medieval society / USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of General Studies. stories; resp. ed. E.V. Gutnova. – M.: [b. i.], 1984. – P. 120-140.
• The problem of the liberation struggle in France in the 15th century. in French and English historiography/N. I. Basovskaya//Historiography of problems of international relations and national movements in the countries of Western Europe and North America: interuniversity. Sat/Moscow state history-arch. Institute; resp. ed. M.T. Panchenkova. – M.: [b. i.], 1985. – P. 153-171.
• Hundred Years' War, 1337-1453 / N.I. Basovskaya. – M.: Higher. school, 1985. – 185 p. – (Library of the historian).
• Anglo-French contradictions of the late XIII-XIV centuries. and countries of the Iberian Peninsula / N.I. Basovskaya//Socio-political development of the countries of the Iberian Peninsula under feudalism/AS USSR, Institute of General. stories; resp. ed. E.V. Gutnova. – M.: [b. i.], 1983. – P. 72-92.
• The Crusades and the problem of relations between East and West: ref. review: [books and articles]/N.I. Basovskaya//Society. science abroad. Ser. 5, History. – 1986. – No. 1. – P. 149-156.
• Continental policy of the English state in the 11th – 13th centuries: [compilation. ref. books]/N.I. Basovskaya//Ibid. – 1985. – No. 3. – P.156-161.
• Liberation movement in France during the Hundred Years War/N.I. Basovskaya // Issue. stories. – 1987. – No. 1. – P. 48-66.
• The Hundred Years' War and the growth of political activity of the urban class/N.I. Basovskaya//City life in medieval Europe: [collection. Art./USSR Academy of Sciences, General Institute. stories; editorial board: E.V. Gutnova (responsible editor), etc.]. – M.: [b. i.], 1987. – P. 220-238.
• Problems of the theory of international relations in Soviet historiography / N.I. Basovskaya//Historiography of problems of international relations and national movements in foreign countries: interuniversity. Sat/Moscow state history-arch. Institute; [rep. ed. M.T. Panchenkova]. – M.: MGIAI, 1987. – P. 4-10.
• England and France in the international life of Western Europe at the end of the 12th - mid-15th centuries / N.I. Basovskaya//Middle Ages: collection/rep. ed. IN AND. Ruthenburg; USSR Academy of Sciences, General Institute. stories. – M.: Nauka, 1988. – Issue. 51. – pp. 5-22.
• A systematic approach to the study of centralizing and universalist tendencies in the development of the feudal state/N.I. Basovskaya // General history: discussions, new approaches: [collection. Art.]/USSR Academy of Sciences, General Institute. stories; resp. ed. A.O. Chubaryan, V.V. Sogrin. – M.: Nauka, 1989. – Issue. 2. – pp. 261-269.
• Ideas of war and peace in Western European medieval society/N.I. Basovskaya//Middle Ages: collection/[AS USSR, Institute of General. stories]. – M.: Nauka, 1990. – Issue. 53. – pp. 44-51.
• Ruler and people in the Hundred Years' War: myth and reality/N.I. Basovskaya//Ibid. - M.: Nauka, 1991. – Issue. 54. – pp. 23-34.
• Imaginary horizon line (the line between domestic and foreign policy in medieval society)/N.I. Basovskaya // Problems of history and historiography of the labor movement: [collection. Art.]/AS USSR, Institute of Problems of the Labor Movement and Comparatives. Political Science; [rep. ed. D.V. Kukharchuk, O.N. Melikyan]. – M.: IPRD, 1991. – P. 12-22.
• The idea of ​​empire in the political culture of traditional societies/N.I. Basovskaya//Political history on the threshold of the 21st century: traditions and innovations: materials of the international. scientific Conf., May 1994, Moscow/Rus. acad. Sciences, Institute of General Sciences. stories; [editor: Repina L.P. and etc.]. – M.: IVI, 1995. – P. 97-103.
• Natural-geographical factor in history: on the issue of the evolution of the problem / N.I. Basovskaya // Bulletin of the Russian State University for the Humanities / Ross. state Humanitarian University; under general ed. Yu.N. Afanasyeva. – M.: RSUH, 1996. – Issue. 3: Natural sciences and spiritual sciences: subject and method at the turn of the 21st century. – P.35-43.
• The value of freedom and its guarantees in history/N.I. Basovskaya//The right to freedom: materials of the international. Conf., 29-30 Oct. 1998 “History of the struggle for freedom in the 17th – 20th centuries”: (to the 50th anniversary of the approval by the UN General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) / Ross. state Humanitarian University, Russian Federation humanities scientific fund; comp. N.V. Rostislavleva; under general ed. N.I. Basovskaya. – M.: RSUH, 2000. – P. 15-16.
• The purpose of history is history: collection. Art./N.I. Basovskaya; Ross. state Humanitarian University – M.: RSUH, 2002. – 535 p. – (History and Memory).
• The Hundred Years' War: leopard against lily/Natalia Basovskaya. – M.: AST: Olympus, 2002. – 428 p. – (Historical Library).
• French medieval city and the birth of national identity/N.I. Basovskaya//Urban universe: evolution of culture and social metamorphoses/Mezhuniv. center Moscow-Quebec, Univ. them. Laval and Ross. state Humanitarian University – M.; Quebec: [b. i.], 2005. – P. 17-27.
• “Autumn of the Middle Ages” in the mirror of the Hundred Years War/N.I. Basovskaya//International relations in research practices and teaching of world history: abstract. intercollegiate round table, Moscow, June 15, 2006: in memory of prof. IAI M.T. Panchenkova/Rus. state Humanitarian University, East. arch. Institute, Department universal stories; org. com.: N.I. Basovskaya (chairman) [and others]. – M.: RSUH, 2006. – P. 26-30.

Basovskaya Natalia Ivanovna is a name that evokes delight and respect from anyone who has listened to at least one of her lectures. But they are usually not limited to one. I would like to learn more and more about what Natalya Basovskaya can tell so interestingly. They call her jokingly, and maybe seriously, Scheherazade. This is how the editor-in-chief of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” A. Venediktov speaks of her for her endless “fairy tales”.

Some biographical information

A month before the start of the Second World War, on May 21, 1941, a daughter, Natalia, was born into a family of Russified Polish nobles (on her mother’s side). Her father, Kurenkov Ivan Fedorovich, went to the front, and one can only guess how her mother survived with an infant in her arms. However, Maria Adamovna’s health was ironclad. Despite all the hardships, she lived for one hundred and two years (1909-2011) and managed to rejoice at her daughter’s successes and take care of her granddaughter Evgenia, who was born in 1964 in her daughter’s first marriage and later became a philologist.

Studying at school and at Moscow University

In 1952-1960 A brilliant teacher, Ada Anatolyevna Svanidze, who was passionate about the history of the Middle Ages, worked in Moscow schools and would later teach at Moscow State University and Russian State University for the Humanities. It was her student who, like a sponge, absorbed knowledge, was Natalya Basovskaya. After school, she entered the history department of Moscow State University, from which she graduated with honors. Natalya Basovskaya continued her studies in graduate school and defended her thesis in 1969 on the topic of English politics in Gascony in the 13th-15th centuries. This work captivated the young historian so much that she studied Latin (she knew English perfectly) and read all the documentation on her own without a translator. Natalya Basovskaya turned over mountains of economic documents, and as a result, new information was included in the dissertation. It was she who became aware of how the British, who at that time owned Gascony, profited from the export and import of wines. They imposed a tax on the same barrel of wine twice - for export and for import - and thus clipped the coupons.

Teaching activities

Since 1971, Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya taught at the Department of General History of the Historical and Archival Institute. But the young teacher was already collecting materials for her doctoral dissertation. At the same time, she organized a circle in which students conducted theatrical trials of famous historical characters.

In those same years, Natalia Ivanovna managed to broadcast a radio program about people who were given one, maximum two lines in school history textbooks for grades five to seven. The program was called “Radio for a History Lesson.” And then lectures appeared about Lao Tzu, Tamerlane, Richelieu and other historical figures. The result was portraits against the backdrop of history.

Defense of the thesis

This and besides, family and friends demanded time, which was not enough for the dissertation. Nevertheless, in 1988, a Doctor of Historical Sciences appears before us.

Natalia Ivanovna dedicated it to the Anglo-French contradictions of the 12th-15th centuries. At this time, the Hundred Years' War was going on. The most interesting personalities from both the English and French sides, little known to Russian listeners and readers, performed on the historical stage. It was at this time that the disparate people living in what is now France and England began to feel their unity. But the contradictions between them were so great that one of the French historians of those years wrote with all seriousness that they say that the English are not people at all: they have tails under their clothes, similar to those of monkeys. ended with a fracture caused by a little girl from Domremy, Joan of Arc. But its final completion is considered even though the peace treaty was never concluded.

Historical program of N. Basovskaya and A. Venediktov

Initially, two enthusiasts created the program “Everything is Wrong” on radio “Echo of Moscow”. In it, Natalia Ivanovna introduced listeners to the fascinating biographies of people whom she deeply studied when she was engaged in serious work on history: the historiography of the problems of the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages or the problems of the Hundred Years War in modern historiography.

She easily and intelligibly, however, filling her stories with historical facts, talked about the people of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages. Why did eighteen-year-old Alexander the Great need the whole world? Why is the beautiful Alienor of Aquitaine considered the grandmother of Europe in the Middle Ages? Then, in 2006, the program changed its name, and it began to sound like “Everything is so.” But the questions she answered remained interesting. Is the real-life King Henry V similar to Shakespeare's character? Richard the Lionheart and Cicero, Leonardo da Vinci and Robin Hood have attracted attention throughout the centuries, and we can piece together their human image. But Natalia Ivanovna paints them vividly and vividly, as people of flesh and blood with their passions and mistakes.

TV channel "Culture"

A significant event was Natalya Basovskaya’s lectures on television. The whole country was able to see this sorceress of the word with her own eyes. It is not only the material that Natalia Ivanovna presents that is interesting, but also the way she does it. She enters the audience and happily greets young people: she is pleased with young faces who are interested in history. And people of all ages froze at the screens. Natalia Ivanovna is always smart and elegantly dressed. She loves and changes her jewelry often. What will we learn? About how the Middle Ages were born in smoke, blood and fire, how the great Rome perished and what a tragedy it was for its inhabitants. For them, the end of the world was coming in the literal sense of the word. After all, the Latins called Rome the eternal city, without doubting for a second that their foundations would last for centuries, if not millennia. Virgil, who created his poetic monument, was sure that Rome would always stand as long as the maiden ascended the Capitoline Hill and supported it. At the same time, Natalia Ivanovna quotes this poem in Latin, and then translates each line.

And it’s wonderful that we see the lecturer’s energetic gestures, which emphasize the significance of this or that phrase. From these lectures we learn about the life of Joan of Arc, about whom Natalia Ivanovna speaks with heartfelt admiration. One can only regret that the “Culture” TV channel has stopped broadcasting its “Academy” program and lectures can only be listened to from its archive, and new episodes are not released.

Literary activity

Natalya Basovskaya wrote articles based on lectures that not everyone could hear. The books they turned into do not sit on the shelves. These are publications such as "The Hundred Years' War. Leopard against the Lily", as well as the series "History in Stories" and "Man in the Mirror of History" and others.

A lot of them have already been published, and the reader looks forward to each issue, because he learns a lot of new things about what he heard, but somehow forgot. Their heroes are Queen Victoria, Karl Marx, Torquemada with his unrequited love, Marie Antoinette, Thomas More and many other historical figures.

Professor N.I. Basovskaya opened the world of history for listeners and readers from a completely different, unusual side. For this, she is grateful to her huge audience of admirers.

Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya
Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya
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Known as:	largest Russian specialist on the history of the Hundred Years War, author of a series of popular science programs on television and radio “Echo of Moscow”
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Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya(born May 21, 1941, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian medievalist historian. Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Doctor of Historical Sciences (1988).

Specialist in the history of the Middle Ages in Western Europe. Deals with problems of the history of international relations in Western Europe of the 12th-15th centuries, the political history of England and France, the history of historical science. Author of more than 150 works. At the Russian State University for the Humanities (MGIAI) since 1971. Gives a course of lectures “General History. Middle Ages. West”, special course “Leopard versus Lily...”. Honored Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities (2006).

Biography

During her school years, her mentor was A. A. Svanidze. Graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University (1963, with honors), majoring in foreign history, specialized in the department of history of the Middle Ages; postgraduate course of the same faculty. She studied with Academician S. D. Skazkin and Professor E. V. Gutnova, who was the supervisor during the preparation of her dissertation. Candidate of Historical Sciences (1969), dissertation “English politics in Gascony at the end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th centuries.” Doctor of Historical Sciences (1988), dissertation “Anglo-French contradictions in the international relations of Western Europe in the second half of the 12th - mid-15th centuries.”

I entered the history department of Moscow State University with an obvious desire to study Russian history; I was attracted by the 17th century, the Time of Troubles, which was little studied then. But I immediately felt an ideological pressure: all the answers were already in the textbooks... Therefore, my guideline was this: further away. I spoke English well, so I chose England. I wrote my thesis on England. And the Middle Ages - because it crawled away from ideologically understood “relevance”... Over the years, I moved away from a narrow interest in medievalist studies.

Since 1971, he has been a teacher at the Department of General History of the Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute (MGIAI), now the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State Humanitarian University (IAI RSUH). She organized at the department the student Club of the History of Antiquity and the Middle Ages (KIDIS), which held “courts of history” - theatrical discussions of the fates of famous historical characters. About some “courts of history” in 1991-1993. Documentary films were made. In the 1990s. She has repeatedly lectured on the history of Soviet historical science at US universities.

Currently the head of the Department of General History of the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State University for the Humanities (since 1988), also at the Russian State University for the Humanities the director of the educational and scientific Center for Visual Anthropology and Egohistory (CVEA) and co-director of the Russian-American Center for Biblical and Judaic Studies; Member of the editorial board of the yearbook "The Middle Ages". Chairman of the dissertation council of the Russian State University for the Humanities D.212.198.07, deputy chairman of the dissertation council of the Russian State University for the Humanities D.212.198.03. In 1988-2006, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Russian State University for the Humanities (MGIAI). As RFI characterizes her in 2012, she is “the leading teacher of the Russian State University for the Humanities, who stood at the origins of the university.”

Since the 1970s, he has appeared on television and radio as a historian. In the 1970s, she hosted the radio program “Radio for a History Lesson” for two years. Together with the editor-in-chief of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” Alexei Venediktov, she was the host of the historical program “Not So” on this radio station. Since 2006, also together with Venediktov, she has been the host of the historical program “Everything is So.” Journalistic articles in the magazines “Knowledge is Power” and “Rodina”, is a member of the editorial board of the latter.

Awarded the medal “In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow” (1997).

In general, if I were for violence, I would forcefully teach everyone spiritual history. Downright violent. It wouldn't spoil people.

Family

Father - Kurenkov Ivan Fedorovich - WWII participant, colonel; mother - Kurenkova (Varsh) Maria Adamovna (b. 06/28/1909 - 2011) - agronomist, celebrated her 100th anniversary in 2009. Grandfather - Russified Polish nobleman Adam Franzevich Warsh, lawyer. Grandmother - Maria Alekseevna Varsh - also a noblewoman, graduated from the Catherine Institute of Noble Maidens.

Husband - Vladimir Anatolyevich Roshal, also an employee of the Russian State University for the Humanities.

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- Oh, my soul! - answered Princess Anna Mikhailovna. “God forbid you know how hard it is to remain a widow without support and with a son whom you love to the point of adoration.” You will learn everything,” she continued with some pride. – My process taught me. If I need to see one of these aces, I write a note: “princesse une telle [princess so-and-so] wants to see so-and-so,” and I drive myself in a cab at least two, at least three times, at least four times, until I achieve what I need. I don't care what anyone thinks about me.
- Well, well, who did you ask about Borenka? – asked the Countess. - After all, yours is already a guard officer, and Nikolushka is a cadet. There is no one to bother. Who did you ask?
- Prince Vasily. He was very nice. Now I agreed to everything, reported to the sovereign,” said Princess Anna Mikhailovna with delight, completely forgetting all the humiliation through which she went to achieve her goal.
- That he has aged, Prince Vasily? – asked the Countess. – I haven’t seen him since our theaters at the Rumyantsevs’. And I think he forgot about me. “Il me faisait la cour, [He was trailing after me,” the countess recalled with a smile.
“Still the same,” answered Anna Mikhailovna, “kind, crumbling.” Les grandeurs ne lui ont pas touriene la tete du tout. [The high position did not turn his head at all.] “I regret that I can do too little for you, dear princess,” he tells me, “order.” No, he is a nice man and a wonderful family member. But you know, Nathalieie, my love for my son. I don't know what I wouldn't do to make him happy. “And my circumstances are so bad,” Anna Mikhailovna continued with sadness and lowering her voice, “so bad that I am now in the most terrible situation. My miserable process is eating up everything I have and is not moving. I don’t have, you can imagine, a la lettre [literally], I don’t have a dime of money, and I don’t know what to outfit Boris with. “She took out a handkerchief and began to cry. “I need five hundred rubles, but I have one twenty-five-ruble note.” I am in this position... My only hope now is Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov. If he does not want to support his godson - after all, he baptized Borya - and assign him something for his maintenance, then all my troubles will be lost: I will have nothing to outfit him with.
The Countess shed tears and silently thought about something.
“I often think, maybe this is a sin,” said the princess, “and I often think: Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhoy lives alone... this is a huge fortune... and what does he live for? Life is a burden for him, but Borya is just beginning to live.
“He will probably leave something for Boris,” said the countess.
- God knows, chere amie! [dear friend!] These rich people and nobles are so selfish. But I’ll still go to him now with Boris and tell him straight out what’s going on. Let them think what they want about me, I really don’t care when my son’s fate depends on it. - The princess stood up. - Now it’s two o’clock, and at four o’clock you have lunch. I'll have time to go.
And with the techniques of a St. Petersburg business lady who knows how to use time, Anna Mikhailovna sent for her son and went out into the hall with him.
“Farewell, my soul,” she said to the countess, who accompanied her to the door, “wish me success,” she added in a whisper from her son.
– Are you visiting Count Kirill Vladimirovich, ma chere? - said the count from the dining room, also going out into the hallway. - If he feels better, invite Pierre to dinner with me. After all, he visited me and danced with the children. Call me by all means, ma chere. Well, let's see how Taras distinguishes himself today. He says that Count Orlov never had such a dinner as we will have.

“Mon cher Boris, [Dear Boris,”] said Princess Anna Mikhailovna to her son when Countess Rostova’s carriage, in which they were sitting, drove along the straw-covered street and drove into the wide courtyard of Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhy. “Mon cher Boris,” said the mother, pulling her hand out from under her old coat and with a timid and affectionate movement placing it on her son’s hand, “be gentle, be attentive.” Count Kirill Vladimirovich is still your godfather, and your future fate depends on him. Remember this, mon cher, be as sweet as you know how to be...
“If I had known that anything other than humiliation would come out of this...” the son answered coldly. “But I promised you and I’m doing this for you.”
Despite the fact that someone’s carriage was standing at the entrance, the doorman, looking at the mother and son (who, without ordering to report themselves, directly entered the glass vestibule between two rows of statues in the niches), looking significantly at the old cloak, asked who they wanted whatever, the princesses or the count, and, having learned that the count, said that their Lordships are worse off now and their Lordships do not receive anyone.
“We can leave,” the son said in French.
- Mon ami! [My friend!] - said the mother in a pleading voice, again touching her son’s hand, as if this touch could calm or excite him.
Boris fell silent and, without taking off his overcoat, looked questioningly at his mother.
“Darling,” Anna Mikhailovna said in a gentle voice, turning to the doorman, “I know that Count Kirill Vladimirovich is very ill... that’s why I came... I’m a relative... I won’t bother you, dear... But I just need to see Prince Vasily Sergeevich: because he is standing here. Report back, please.
The doorman sullenly pulled the string upward and turned away.
“Princess Drubetskaya to Prince Vasily Sergeevich,” he shouted to a waiter in stockings, shoes and a tailcoat who had run down from above and was looking out from under the ledge of the stairs.
The mother smoothed out the folds of her dyed silk dress, looked into the solid Venetian mirror in the wall and walked briskly up the staircase carpet in her worn-out shoes.
“Mon cher, voue m"avez promis, [My friend, you promised me,” she turned again to the Son, exciting him with the touch of her hand.
The son, with lowered eyes, calmly followed her.
They entered the hall, from which one door led to the chambers allocated to Prince Vasily.
While the mother and son, going out into the middle of the room, intended to ask for directions from the old waiter who jumped up at their entrance, a bronze handle turned at one of the doors and Prince Vasily in a velvet fur coat, with one star, in a homely manner, came out, seeing off the handsome black-haired a man. This man was the famous St. Petersburg doctor Lorrain.
“C"est donc positif? [So, is this true?] - said the prince.
“Mon prince, “errare humanum est”, mais... [Prince, it is human nature to make mistakes.] - answered the doctor, gracing and pronouncing Latin words in a French accent.
– C"est bien, c"est bien... [Okay, okay...]
Noticing Anna Mikhailovna and her son, Prince Vasily dismissed the doctor with a bow and silently, but with a questioning look, approached them. The son noticed how suddenly deep sorrow was expressed in his mother's eyes, and smiled slightly.
- Yes, in what sad circumstances did we have to see each other, Prince... Well, what about our dear patient? - she said, as if not noticing the cold, insulting gaze directed at her.
Prince Vasily looked questioningly, to the point of bewilderment, at her, then at Boris. Boris bowed politely. Prince Vasily, without answering the bow, turned to Anna Mikhailovna and answered her question with a movement of his head and lips, which meant the worst hope for the patient.
- Really? - Anna Mikhailovna exclaimed. - Oh, this is terrible! It’s scary to think... This is my son,” she added, pointing to Boris. “He himself wanted to thank you.”
Boris bowed politely again.
- Believe, prince, that a mother’s heart will never forget what you did for us.
“I’m glad that I could do something pleasant for you, my dear Anna Mikhailovna,” said Prince Vasily, straightening his frill and in his gesture and voice showing here, in Moscow, in front of the patronized Anna Mikhailovna, even greater importance than in St. Petersburg, at Annette’s evening Scherer.
“Try to serve well and be worthy,” he added, turning sternly to Boris. - I'm glad... Are you here on vacation? – he dictated in his dispassionate tone.
“I’m waiting for an order, your Excellency, to go to a new destination,” answered Boris, showing neither annoyance at the prince’s harsh tone, nor a desire to engage in conversation, but so calmly and respectfully that the prince looked at him intently.
- Do you live with your mother?
“I live with Countess Rostova,” said Boris, adding again: “Your Excellency.”
“This is the Ilya Rostov who married Nathalie Shinshina,” said Anna Mikhailovna.
“I know, I know,” said Prince Vasily in his monotonous voice. – Je n"ai jamais pu concevoir, comment Nathalieie s"est decidee a epouser cet ours mal – leche l Un personnage completement stupide et ridicule.Et joueur a ce qu"on dit. [I could never understand how Natalie decided to come out marry this dirty bear. A completely stupid and funny person, and a player, they say.]

Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya- Soviet and Russian medievalist historian. Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Doctor of Historical Sciences (1988).

Specialist in the history of the Middle Ages in Western Europe. Deals with problems of the history of international relations in Western Europe of the 12th-15th centuries, the political history of England and France, the history of historical science. Author of more than 150 works. At the Russian State University for the Humanities (MGIAI) since 1971. Gives a course of lectures “General History. Middle Ages. West”, special course “Leopard versus Lily...”. Honored Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities (2006).

During her school years, her mentor was A. A. Svanidze. Graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University (1963, with honors), majoring in foreign history, specialized in the department of history of the Middle Ages; postgraduate studies in the same department. She studied with Academician S. D. Skazkin and Professor E. V. Gutnova, who was the supervisor during the preparation of her dissertation. Candidate of Historical Sciences (1969), dissertation “English politics in Gascony at the end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th centuries.” Doctor of Historical Sciences (1988), dissertation “Anglo-French contradictions in the international relations of Western Europe in the second half of the 12th - mid-15th centuries.”
Since 1971, he has been a teacher at the Department of General History of the Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute (MGIAI), now the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State Humanitarian University (IAI RSUH). She organized at the department the student Club of the History of Antiquity and the Middle Ages (KIDIS), which held “courts of history” - theatrical discussions of the fates of famous historical characters. About some “courts of history” in 1991-1993. Documentary films were made. In the 1990s. She has repeatedly lectured on the history of Soviet historical science at US universities.
Currently the head of the Department of General History of the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State University for the Humanities (since 1988), also at the Russian State Humanitarian University the director of the educational and scientific Center for Visual Anthropology and Egohistory (CVEA) and co-director of the Russian-American Center for Biblical and Judaic Studies; Member of the editorial board of the yearbook "The Middle Ages". Chairman of the dissertation council of the Russian State University for the Humanities D.212.198.07, deputy chairman of the dissertation council of the Russian State University for the Humanities D.212.198.03. In 1988-2006, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Russian State University for the Humanities (MGIAI). As RFI characterizes her in 2012, she is “a leading teacher at the Russian State University for the Humanities, who stood at the origins of the university.”
Since the 1970s, he has appeared on television and radio as a historian.. In the 1970s, she hosted the radio program “Radio for a History Lesson” for two years.. Together with the editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, Alexei Venediktov, she was the host of the historical program “Not So” on this radio station. Since 2006, also together with Venediktov, she has been the host of the historical program “Everything is So.” Journalistic articles in the magazines “Knowledge is Power” and “Rodina”, is a member of the editorial board of the latter.
Awarded the medal “In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow” (1997).

Husband - Vladimir Anatolyevich Roshal, also an employee of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Father - Kurenkov Ivan Fedorovich - WWII participant, colonel; mother - Kurenkova (Varsh) Maria Adamovna (b. 06/28/1909 - 2011) - agronomist, celebrated her 100th anniversary in 2009. Grandfather - Russified Polish nobleman Adam Franzevich Warsh, lawyer. Grandmother - Maria Alekseevna Varsh - also a noblewoman, graduated from the Catherine Institute of Noble Maidens.
Daughter from her first marriage - Evgenia (b. 1964) - Doctor of Philology.

Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya
Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya
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A country:	Russian Federation
Scientific field:	history of the Middle Ages of Western Europe, history of international relations in Western Europe of the 12th–15th centuries, political history of England and France, history of historical science.
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Scientific adviser:	Evgenia Vladimirovna Gutnova
Known as:	largest Russian specialist on the history of the Hundred Years War, author of a series of popular science programs on television and radio “Echo of Moscow”
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Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya(born May 21, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian medievalist historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor.

Specialist in the history of the Middle Ages in Western Europe. Deals with problems of the history of international relations in Western Europe of the 12th-15th centuries, the political history of England and France, the history of historical science. At the Russian State University for the Humanities (MGIAI) since 1971. Gives a course of lectures “General History. Middle Ages. West”, special course “Leopard versus Lily...”.

She was awarded the medal “In Memory of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow” (1997), and has the honorary title “Emerited Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities” (2006). Author of more than 150 works.

Education and academic degrees

She graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University (with honors), specialized in the department of history of the Middle Ages. She studied with academician Sergei Danilovich Skazkin and professor Evgenia Vladimirovna Gutnova, who was the supervisor during the preparation of her dissertation. Candidate of Historical Sciences (dissertation topic: “English politics in Gascony at the end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th centuries”). Doctor of Historical Sciences (dissertation topic: “Anglo-French contradictions in the international relations of Western Europe in the second half of the 12th - mid-15th centuries”). Professor (). Honored Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities ().

Scientific and pedagogical activities

S - Lecturer at the Department of General History of the Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute (MGIAI; then at the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State Humanitarian University - IAI RSUH). Specialist in the history of the Middle Ages in Western Europe. Deals with problems of the history of international relations in Western Europe of the 12th-15th centuries, the political history of England and France, the history of historical science. Gives a course of lectures “General History. Middle Ages. West”, special course “Leopard versus Lily...”. In the 1970s, she organized at the department KIDIS (student circle of the history of antiquity and the Middle Ages), which organized “courts of history” - theatrical discussions of the fate of famous historical characters. About some “courts of history” in