Why did Adam Honory Kirkor call himself in the editorial office of “Grazhdanin” Ivan Alekseevich Slivov: based on the materials of the Krakow archive of the publicist

The article analyses the foreign correspondence of the Polish scientist and writer A.-H. Kirkor, published anonymously in 1874 in “Grazhdanin” under the heading “Slavic lands”: a complete corpus of letters of 1873-1875 by V. F. Putsykovich, Editorial Secretary of “Grazhdanin” (who became later its editor) addressed to A.-H. Kirkor and discovered in the Manuscript Fund of the Krakow Jagiellonski Library (Biblioteka Jagiellońska w Krakowie), was introduced into scientific use and published. The article studies the circumstances of the cooperation of A.-H. Kirkor in 1874 with the editors of the weekly journal “Grazhdanin”. Based on the analysis of the already known and first published epistolary sources, it is established that A.-H. Kirkor was concealing his real name from the editorial office of “Grazhdanin”, appearing in letters by the name of Ivan Alekseevich Slivov. The article makes attempts to analyze possible motives of this hoax.