Scientific and Pedagogical Activity of Professor S. I. Sobolevsky (1880s — 1920s)

The article examines the biography and creative activity of the Russian and Soviet classic philologist Sergei Ivanovich Sobolevsky (1864—1963) in the 1880—1920s. Sources of research are archival documents and memoir literature. Almost the entire first half of Sobolevsky’s activity is a completely regular career as a university teacher in imperial Russia. The change in socio-economic conditions in Russia in the late 1910s — early 1920s, the “abolition” of many humanitarian disciplines, including classical philology, caused the need to adapt to the new reality. Knowledge of foreign languages, as well as election as a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in January 1928, contributed to the adaptation of the scientist in the difficult period of the 1920s.