Dmytro Hordieiev as a Student of Fedir Shmit and a Representative of the Kharkiv Art Studies School (After New Archival Materials)

Author

Sokoliuk Liudmyla

a Doctor of Art Studies, a professor, an academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, a professor at the Theory and History of Arts Department of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (Kharkiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9564-8672

Dmytro Hordieiev as a Student of Fedir Shmit
and a Representative of the Kharkiv Art Studies School
(After New Archival Materials)

Abstract

The article examines the scientific activities of Dmytro Hordieiev, a student of the Byzantine scholar Fedir Shmit. Since 1925, he had lived in Tiflis (the then name of the capital of Georgia, now Tbilisi) and studied medieval Georgian art as part of the artistic culture of a country belonging to the Byzantine cultural sphere. After F. Shmit left Kharkiv for Kyiv in 1921 and then for Leningrad in 1925, D. Hordieiev, remaining in Tiflis, continued to collaborate with other students of the aforementioned outstanding scholar at Kharkiv University – among them O. Berladina, O. Nikolska, T. Ivanovska, and others who stayed in Kharkiv.

In July 1926, D. Hordieiev was officially appointed head of the Kharkiv subsection of Oriental Studies within the Department of Art History of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Soon, V. Zummer, a specialist in Azerbaijani art, joined the Kharkiv group after moving from Kyiv.

Relying on archival documents – primarily correspondence between D. Hordieiev and O. Berladina – the author of this article significantly expands the available information about Hordieiev’s publications, reports, and communications, as well as about the scholarly work of the members of his subsection. For the first time, Hordieiev’s activities as a scientific and literary editor, as well as his culture of professional communication with colleagues, are revealed. The study opens perspectives for further research.

Keywords

fine arts, D. Hordieiev, students of F. Shmit, Kharkiv school of art history, O. Berladina, art of the peoples of the Caucasus, Oriental Studies.

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