Elena Chepel

My research focuses on the work of G. Zereteli, the founder of the Russian school of papyrology and editor of the corpus of papyri kept in Russia and Georgia. Up until 1917, Zereteli was fully integrated into the international academic community, corresponding with scholars worldwide and visiting major European papyrological collections, including the one in Vienna in 1900–1901. After Zereteli died during the Great Purge, papyrology in Russia was isolated from world research centres and gradually declined. Looking at the history of the corpus P. Ross. Georg., I aim to trace the impact of politics and society on the work of humanities scholars.