Peripatetics in pre-soviet intellectual literature (the second half of the 18th – early 20th centuries)

The article examines publications of various genres by Russian authors from the second half of the 18th to the early 20th centuries, which contain information about Aristotle's closest students, collaborators, and followers who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BC. Using these works as examples, demonstrating the history dissemination of knowledge about such figures as Theophrastus, Aristoxenus, Dicaearchus, Eudemus, and others, conclusions are drawn about the peculiarities of the reception of the Peripatetic legacy in Russian culture. Specifically, it demonstrates that, on the one hand, the Peripatetics remained little known to the Russian intellectual public throughout the period under study. On the other hand, their legacy remained relevant, and in addition to scholarly pursuits (research and translation), it was repeatedly used for didactic and educational purposes. The work also contains additions to the history of Russian Aristotelian studies. The results of the study, presented in the form of a "Bibliographic List," are published as an appendix to the article.