The pedagogical and research activities of professor Aleksey Ivanov at Leningrad Theological Academy and seminary (on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his repose)

Professor Aleksey Ivanovich Ivanov (1890-1976) was a graduate of Petrograd Teological Academy (class of 1915). Following World War Two, he taught first at Moscow Teological Academy (1951-1956) and then at Leningrad Teological Academy (1956-1961). As a student of two of the most significant Byzantine scholars of the pre-Revolutionary period - Fyodor Uspensky and Ivan Sokolov - Professor Ivanov continued his study of Byzantine history and published a number of articles on this topic in both ecclesiastic (Zhurnal Moskovskoy Patriarkhii and Bogoslovskie Trudy) and secular (Istorichesky Zhurnal, Istoricheskie Zapiski) periodicals. Te result of his research was his doctoral dissertation, History of the Byzantine Church: From Constantine the Great to the Great Schism, which he defended in 1960. At the same time, Ivanov was also involved in New Testament scholarship, as a result of which he published his Master’s Dissertation, Critical Editions of the Greek New Testament and the Text Accepted for Use in the Orthodox Church in 1956. In the present article, the pedagogical, administrative and research activities of Aleksey Ivanov during his time at Leningrad Teological Academy and Seminary (1956-1961) are considered on the basis of materials in the archives of St. Petersburg Teological Academy.