Abstract
<jats:p>The current issue of “Emigrantica” academic series is based on the materials of the international academic conference dedicated to the 140th anniversary of Piotr M. Bitsilli, a prominent scholar and intellectual of the Russian diaspora (1879–1953). The conference took place in 2019 at the IWL RAS and became the first academic event in Russia honouring our outstanding compatriot. The sections of this issue reflect various areas of humanities to which Bitsilli’s impressive accomplishments belong: history, medieval studies, literary criticism. A separate block of articles is devoted to the reconstruction of the scholar’s biography relying on the vast amount of archival materials from Moscow, Odessa, St. Petersburg, Prague and other cities. The publication is supplied with valuable visual material, some of it from the Bitsilli collection (F. 804) of the Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House) RAS; many photographic documents are published for the first time. The publication is addressed to literary critics, linguists, historians, medievalists, slavists and anyone interested in the history and contemporary issues of the humanities.</jats:p>