Rydzevskaya Elena Alexandrovna

Genus. in 1890 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. She received secondary education at the private gymnasium of L. S. Tagantseva. In 1907 she entered the verbal history department of the St. Petersburg Women's Pedagogical Institute. At the institute she continued to study languages ​​- Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Italian. In 1911 she interrupted her studies at the institute. Since 1910, she began working at the Hermitage as an archaeologist under the leadership of Ya. I. Smirnov. Initially, in her scientific life, she was engaged in archaeological research and the study of Scandinavian treasures in museums in Stockholm, Oslo and Bergen in 1912. And then in 1914 she became acquainted with archaeological sites in Russia, Germany and Italy. During the First World War, she gradually began to move away from archeology, moving on to the study of written sources on the history of Rus' and Russian-Scandinavian relations.
During January-March 1918 she worked as a translator at the Petrograd Telegraph Agency, and then until the beginning of 1919 she was engaged in clerical work at the People's Commissariat of Education. A little later (May 6, 1919) she was elected to the scientific staff of the Russian Archeology Department of the State Hermitage, then from June 26 she was an assistant curator at the same institution. From September 1919 to April 26, 1920, she held the position of researcher at the Russian Academy of the History of Material Culture. In 1920 she moved to Vesyegonsk and until 1922 she worked as a clerical worker in the Rybinskstroyki office. In 1922 he returned to Petrograd and resumed his scientific activities.
Since August 1922 he has worked as an inventory taker in the journal department of the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences. On October 26, 1930, she was arrested in the “Academic Case” and spent six months in the House of Pre-trial Detention. She was released on her own recognizance, but was fired from her job. Since 1931, she began to take orders for translations from the Institute of History, the Academy of the History of Material Culture, etc. At the same time, she continued her research work. In 1939, she was accepted to the position of senior researcher at the Institute of the History of Material Culture. She died in besieged Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War from exhaustion in December 1941. She was buried in the Smolensk cemetery.