The OP of Crimea will strive to preserve the memory of the great enlightener
The Public Chamber of Crimea will initiate the renaming of the Crimean Republican Library named after. Franko to the Crimean Republican Library. Danilevsky.
A cave on the Ai-Petri plateau was named after the ideologist of Pan-Slavism, who was one of the first to identify the differences and equality of cultural and civilizational approaches, on the eve of his 200th anniversary, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“These days, the Crimean public is widely celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Russian publicist, sociologist and naturalist, cultural scientist and geopolitician, one of the founders of the civilizational approach to history, the ideologist of Pan-Slavism, whose life and work are closely connected with Crimea, Nikolai Yakovlevich Danilevsky,” noted the Chairman of the Public Chamber, Alexander Formanchuk. “Unfortunately, his name is not properly immortalized in the memory of descendants, and in order to somehow compensate for such injustice, the Council of the Public Chamber of the Republic of Crimea decided to initiate the renaming of the Crimean Republican Library. AND I. Franko to the Crimean Republican Library. N.Ya. Danilevsky."
The day before, the name of Danilevsky was given to a cave on the Ai-Petrinsky plateau. Scientists from the Crimean Federal University, together with the Russian Geographical Society, installed a commemorative plaque on the first natural geographical object on the map of Russia, which will bear the name of Danilevsky.
“Nikolai Danilevsky lived and worked at the foot of Ai-Petri (in the village of Mshatka), traveled a lot and studied the nature of the peninsula. He was a full member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society and was awarded the highest award of the Russian Geographical Society - the gold Konstantinovsky medal,” noted the KFU press service.
Meanwhile, Danilevsky’s estate itself, along with the grave and the “philosophical park,” is located behind the fence of the Rusichi Country House, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Attempts to include Danilevsky’s landscape park with a “philosophical park” at the address Republic of Crimea, Yalta urban district, Sanatorny village, Yuzhnaya street 1 in the list of identified cultural heritage sites of the Republic of Crimea were unsuccessful - the Ministry of Culture of the Republic refused to recognize the value of the park founded by Danilevsky on his estate in Mshatka.
An application for inclusion of the park in the list of cultural heritage sites was submitted by the great-granddaughter of the philosopher Olga Danilevskaya. For a decade and a half, she has been fighting for the preservation of her great-grandfather’s grave and the remains of the gardens of “civilizations or cultures,” with which he clearly demonstrated the geopolitical principle of interaction between different cultural and historical types. Danilevsky himself was buried in the Cypress Hall, which symbolized Greek culture. For many years, his grave was the bonfire site of the Pioneer camp named after. Komarov, belonging to Sevmorzavod. The tombstone and monument at the scientist’s burial site were restored in 2007. In 2020, it was given the status of a cultural heritage site (OCH) of federal significance.
Back in Ukraine, a map of dividing a former children's health resort into a closed cottage community appeared. Upon transition to the Russian Federation, the camp became part of the Rusichi Country House, subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. For several years, correspondence continued with the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the exclusion of the Danilevsky grave and the Cypress Hall from the camp with the organization of free access for excursions and delegations. There are several letters of agreement to this, but each time with a change of leadership the matter returned to the starting point.
In August, Olga Danilevskaya submitted an application to the Crimean Ministry of Culture with a request to give protected status to that part of the former children’s camp in which traces of the “gardens of civilizations” still remained and to combine them into a single landscape park together with Danilevsky’s grave called the “philosophical park.” All documents, certificates, and photographs necessary in such cases were attached to the application, and a meeting of the methodological council held in October unanimously recognized the cultural value of the object, recording its decision in the minutes.
However, in April, Danilevskaya was sent a copy of the protocol that the commission did not find sufficient justification and did not consider it necessary to include the object in the list of protected ones.
Without saving the park, it is impossible to preserve Danilevsky’s grave in Crimea and his legacy. Without access to the memorial site, after a while it will be blocked by cottage fences. Already, no one is caring for her, the grave is abandoned. Private development is taking place within the boundaries of the Ministry of Internal Affairs site.
By the way, Olga Danilevskaya was going to Crimea for the 200th anniversary of her great-grandfather. But having received the news with the refusal of the Ministry of Culture to recognize the value of the park, she abandoned her plans. If the legacy of Nikolai Danilevsky has no value, then all the solemn meetings and speeches about the importance of “Slavic civilization” in the world inflorescence of cultures are of no use.
The Crimean Public Chamber will seek to preserve the memory of the great educator.