On April 23, 2008, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences held a meeting of the Academic Council dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Republic of Tajikistan, acad. Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, acad. Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, foreign member of Academia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy), corresponding member. German Archaeological Institute, corresponding member of the Italian Institute of Asia and Africa, member of the editorial board and editorial boards of the journals "Vestnik Drevnoi Istorii", "Irano-Slavika", " Vostok (Oriens)", " Bulletin of the Institute Asia "(Michigan, USA), Archaeological Encyclopedia (Italy), "Encyclopaedia Iranica" (USA), winner of the prize of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Roman Girshman for achievements in the field of Iranian studies, winner of the S. F. Oldenburg Prize, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Boris Anatolyevich Litvinsky 1. The meeting was opened by the Deputy Chairman of the Academic Council A. Z. Yegorin. Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences R. B. Rybakov expressed his admiration for the work of B. A. Litvinsky, calling him the patriarch of Russian Oriental studies. R. B. Rybakov figuratively expressed respect and understanding for the greatness of B. A. Litvinsky, comparing him to the Himalayas: "B. A. Litvinsky is the Himalayas in science." For R. B. Rybakov (as, indeed, for all the members of the Academic Council), the name of B. A. Litvinsky is inseparably linked with the name of his wife, friend and colleague, a major scientist Elena Abramovna Davidovich. "Marriages are made in heaven. They are an amazing couple. They are one organism. How those faces glow! They proved their loyalty to each other, to their vocation, to science, and to certain principles." R. B. Rybakov joked that he was "an expert on B. A. Litvinsky and E. A. Davidovi ... Читать далее