“Crouched Inhumations Don’t Give Me Peace”: Bronze Age of the Northern Black Sea Region in A. V. Dobrovolsky’s Studies (based on correspondence with A. M. Tallgren and V. A. Gorodtsov)
Journal: Stratum plus Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
Year: 2024

The authors publish four letters by A. V. Dobrovolsky to the Finnish archaeologist A. M. Tallgren, written in the spring of 1926, and two letters to V. A. Gorodtsov, written in 1916 and 1926. In those years, the young scientist was only looking for his way in archaeology, while the receivers of this letters already had great authority in Europe. The letters to Tallgren are related to the preparation of his monograph “La Pontide préscythique après l’introduction des métaux”. At that time, Dobrovo