HP Bratnicki. A selection of articles and autographed letters by the author to B. V. Weimarn.

HP Bratnicki. A selection of articles and autographed letters by the author to B. V. Weimarn.
Only two items without autographs - "Some works of Azerbaijani architecture in the light of the relationship between the medieval architecture of Azerbaijan and Armenia" and an article in German. The rest is signed.

Two newspaper clippings, four letters. Twenty-eight separate prints (one in English), two reports, and an abstract of the report.

1948 - 1977

Boris Vladimirovich weimarn (1909, Sevastopol, Russian Empire — 1990, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet art historian and orientalist. Doctor of art history. Full member of the USSR Academy of SCIENCES (1973).

Younger brother of the archaeologist E. V. Weimarn. In 1930, he graduated from the Department of theory and history of art at the faculty of literature and art of Moscow University.

After graduating from the University, he worked at the Museum of Oriental cultures (1932-1948), and also taught at the University in 1940 — 1961.

Research interests: history of art of the peoples of the USSR, the Near and Middle East.

Co-author and editor of the "world history of art" series, "Monuments of world art", "History of art of the peoples of the USSR" (1971-1984). 

He died in 1990. He was buried at the Khimki cemetery next to his relatives on plot number 30.

Leonid Semyonovich Brittanitsky (July 23, 1914, Odessa — June 27, 1979) was a Soviet art critic, researcher of architecture and art of the Near and Middle East, senior researcher at the Institute of architecture and art of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR, doctor of art history. He is considered one of the most prominent representatives of Soviet art history.

Leonid Brittanitsky was born on July 23, 1914 in Odessa in the family of a musician, violinist Semyon Brittanitsky, who later was a Professor at the Baku Conservatory. In 1938, Brittanitsky graduated from the architectural faculty of the Azerbaijan state Polytechnic Institute.

Architectural monuments of Azerbaijan has awakened in a young Britanica interest in Eastern architecture, allowing Leonid Semenovich entered the Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture in Leningrad, where he studied under Professor Nikolai Baklanov. During this period Bratnicki collaborated with the Oriental Department of the State Hermitage. It was during this period that his scientific views were formed.

In the first years after the war, Brittanitsky published a number of scientific works about such structures as fortifications found at the bottom of the Baku Bay and Garabaglar mausoleums. Brittanitsky also studied the architectural monuments of Central Asia, took part in the work of the Tajik archaeological expedition. In 1949, Brittanitsky for the first time began to distinguish architectural schools in the architecture of individual countries of the East.

Since 1951, Leonid Brittanitsky has directed the laboratory of scientific problems of restoration of monuments of Azerbaijani architecture at the Institute of architecture and art of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Leonid Semyonovich Brittanitsky died on June 27, 1979.