Valentina Petrovna Komarova as a Researcher, Shakespearean Scholar and Librarian

The article is devoted to V.P. Komarova (1928—2013), Doctor of Philological Sciences, an employee of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library (RASL). The biographical data and information about the most important stages of her life and activity are given: the formation of her interest in literature in her school years, her studies at the Leningrad State University, the beginning of her work at the RASL, her postgraduate studies, the study of W. Shakespeare’s works, the defence of her thesis for the degree of Candidate of Sciences and later — Doctor of Sciences, her work in the Department of Scientific Systematization of Literature at the RASL, her participation in the translation of the Central Systematic Catalogue of the RASL to the scheme of the Library and Bibliographic Classification. The scientific path of V.P. Komarova in the field of literature and library science is presented. The review of her main publications is given. The merits in studying the history of the creation of the systematic catalogue of the RASL under the rigid ideological framework of the 1930s are noted.

V.P. Komarova is a specialist in English literature, in the works of W. Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The works of the scientist were highly appreciated by Russian and foreign literary critics. V.P. Komarova taught at Leningrad universities, participated in the international Shakespeare conference, was actively engaged in popularization of W. Shakespeare’s works. As a scholar and librarian, she served her cause without limits.

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7. Personnel File of Komarova V.P., Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 1, aids 2l, fol. 1366, 142 p. (in Russ.).

8. Notebook for Essays of the 8th Grade Student V. Komarova, Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 142, 8 p. (in Russ.).

9. Komarova V. The Images of Women in Russian Literature: Report of the 9th Grade Student, Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 144. 17 p. (in Russ.).

10. Komarova V.P. Working Extracts and Drafts for the Course Work for the 4th Course “Tragedy of a Writer in Imperialist America...”, Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 153, 46 p. (in Russ.).

11. Letters of V.I. Klimenko, Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 235a, 6 p. (in Russ.).

12. V.P. Komarov’s Letter to the Central Committee of the CPSU Regarding the Editorial Article..., Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 121, 14 p. (in Russ.).

13. Komarova V.P. Rises and Falls, Smena, 1958, August 8, no. 185, p. 3 (in Russ.).

14. Komarova V.P. “Shining on Others, I Burn Myself”, Smena, 1958, March 25, no. 71, p. 3 (in Russ.).

15. Komarova V.P. On the Structure of the Index “Adam Mickiewicz in the Russian Press”, Sovetskaya bibliografiya [Soviet Bibliography], 1958, issue 49, pp. 116—119 (in Russ.).

16. Komarova V.P. To the Issue of the Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Tragedy “Julius Caesar”, Vestnik Leningradskogo universiteta. Seriya istorii, yazyka i literatury [Vestnik of Leningrad University. Series of History, Language and Literature], 1959, no. 14, issue 3, pp. 71—84 (in Russ.).

17. Bekzhanova N.V. (ed.) Valentina Petrovna Komarova: biobibliograficheskii ukazatel’ [Valentina Petrovna Komarova: biobibliographical index]. St. Petersburg, BAN Publ., 1998, 25 p.

18. Reviews of the Dissertation “Personality and the State in the Historical Dramas of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries”, 1973—1976, Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 139, 8 p. (in Russ.).

19. V.S. Kemenov’s Letter (From Moscow), Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 235, 2 p. (in Russ.).

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21. Wicht W. Rezension, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 1979, vol. 115, pp. 172—173.

22. The Ambiguity of Julius Caesar: a report in Stratford-upon-Avon in English. Typescript, Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 66, 3 p. (in Russ.).

23. N.P. Smirnova’s Letter, Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 258, 2 p. (in Russ.).

24. Rozova N.M. About the Department of Scientific Systematisation of Literature, Peterburgskaya bibliotechnaya shkola [Petersburg Library School], 2016, no. 2 (54), pp. 50—62 (in Russ.).

25. Komarova V.P. The Problem of Separation and Other Issues Related to the Transfer of the Section “Antique Literature” to the New LBC Scheme, Bibliotechno-bibliograficheskaya klassifikatsiya i praktika perevoda sistematicheskogo kataloga na skhemu BBK: (iz opyta raboty Biblioteki AN SSSR): sbornik statei [Library and Bibliographic Classification and Practice of Systematic Catalogue Transfer to the LBC Scheme: (From the Experience of the USSR Academy of Sciences Library): collected articles]. Leningrad, 1971, pp. 123—151 (in Russ.).

26. Komarova V.P. Correlation of Subject and Systematic Principles in Library Classifications and Catalogues and Issues of LBC Improvement, Nauchnaya konferentsiya “Osnovnye napravleniya i metody sovershenstvovaniya BBK”, Leningrad, 13—15 aprelya 1982 g.: tezisy dokladov [Scientific Conference “Main Directions and Methods of LBC Improvement”, Leningrad, April 13—15, 1982: abstracts]. Leningrad, 1982, pp. 33—34 (in Russ.).

27. Komarova V.P. LBC Schemes Sequence in the Humanities. Reflection of Texts and Personalities, Optimizatsiya Bibliotechno-bibliograficheskoi klassifikatsii i kontseptsiya ee vtorogo izdaniya: (sbornik nauchnykh trudov) [Optimisation of Library and Bibliographic Classification and the Concept of Its Second Edition: (collected articles]. Leningrad, 1977, pp. 104—115 (in Russ.).

28. Komarova V.P. Personalities in the Schemes of the Library and Bibliographic Classification of Social Sciences, Metody usovershenstvovaniya Bibliotechno-bibliograficheskoi klassifikatsii i ee primenenie v Biblioteke AN SSSR: sbornik nauchnykh trudov [Methods of Improvement of the Library and Bibliographic Classification and Its Application in the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences: collected articles]. Leningrad, 1980, pp. 17—30 (in Russ.).

29. Komarova V.P. The Issues of Improving Systematic Catalogues in Libraries of Leningrad Academic Institutes, Problemy tsentralizovannoi sistematizatsii v akademicheskikh bibliotekakh: sbornik statei [The Problems of Centralized Systematization in Academic Libraries: collected articles]. Moscow, 1990, pp. 95—120 (in Russ.).

30. Komarova V.P., Panov A.A., Stanchul T.A., Sukhmaneva E.G. (eds.) Sbornik perevodov rabot zarubezhnykh avtorov po voprosam indeksatsii: v 4 vyp. [Collected Translations of Works by Foreign Authors on Indexing Problems: in 4 issues]. Leningrad, 1972, issue 1, 113 p.

31. Sukhmaneva E.G., Panov A.A., Vasilyev V.E., Makarova M.A., Stanchul T.A. (eds.) Sbornik perevodov rabot zarubezhnykh avtorov po voprosam indeksatsii: v 4 vyp. [Collected Translations of Works by Foreign Authors on Indexing Problems: in 4 issues]. Leningrad, 1976, issue 4, 73 p.

32. Komarova V.P. Slavyanskii fond Biblioteki Akademii nauk SSSR i ego otrazhenie v katalogakh [Slavic Collection of the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Its Reflections in the Catalogues]. Leningrad, 1987, 37 p.

33. Komarova V.P. Slavic Collection of the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Its Reflections in the Catalogues, Vestnik Leningradskogo universiteta. Seriya istorii, yazyka i literatury [Vestnik of Leningrad University. Series of History, Language and Literature], 1988, issue 1, pp. 27—33 (in Russ.).

34. Komarova V.P. Czech Books in the Slavic Collection of the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Literaturnye svyazi slavyanskikh narodov: Issledovaniya. Publikatsii. Bibliografiya [Literary Relations of the Slavic Peoples: Studies. Publications. Bibliography]. Leningrad, 1988, pp. 324—329 (in Russ.).

35. Komarova V.P., Atarshikova N.G. Iz istorii tsentral’nogo sistematicheskogo kataloga Biblioteki Akademii nauk SSSR (1930—1982 gg.) [From the History of the Central Systematic Catalogue of the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1930—1982)]. Leningrad, 1989, 45 p.

36. Komarova V.P. Predmetnyi i sistematicheskii printsipy v klassifikatsiyakh i katalogakh akademicheskikh bibliotek [Subject and Systematic Principles in Classifications and Catalogues of Academic Libraries]. St. Petersburg, 2001, 117 p.

37. Komarova V.P. Das Problem der Gesellschaftsform in Montaignes “Essays” und Shakespeares “Sturm”, Shakespeare-Jahrbuch, 1986, vol. 122, pp. 75—90.

38. Komarova V.P., Nikiforovskaya N.A. “He Was a Man, a Man in Everything”, Smena, 1958, December 21, p. 3 (in Russ.).

39. Komarova V.P. Once Again About Shakespeare, Smena, 1965, September 1, p. 3 (in Russ.).

40. Komarova V.P. “All’s Well That Ends Well”, Leningradskaya Pravda. 1967, December 7, p. 3 (in Russ.).

41. Komarova V.P. Review of the Film “Hamlet” Directed by G. Kozintsev. Letter to I.M. Smoktunovsky with the Movie Parsing, Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 89, 6 p. (in Russ.).

42. Komarova V.P. Metafory i allegorii v proizvedeniyakh Shekspira [Metaphors and Allegories in Shakespeare’s Works]. Leningrad, Izdatel’stvo LGU, 1989, 199 p.

43. Presentation at the Final Session of the All-Union Shakespeare Conference and the Closing of the Shakespeare Festival in Yerevan..., Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 169, 15 p. (in Russ.).

44. Komarova V.P., Nikiforovskaya N.A. “Titus Andronicus” in Leninakan Drama Theater, Banvor. 1981, December 12, no. 291, p. 3. (in Armen.).

45. Reviews of V.P. Komarova’s Book “Shakespeare and Montaigne”, Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 182, 14 p. (in Russ.).

46. D.S. Likhachev’s Letters, Arkhiv Biblioteki Rossiiskoi akademii nauk [Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library], coll. 4, aids 1, fol. 237, 4 p. (in Russ.).