The Kondakov Seminar was an academic organisation founded by Russian exiles on 22 April 1925 in

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, named after

Nikodim Kondakov Nikodim (or Nikodeme) Pavlovich Kondakov (; 1 (13) November 1844, Olshanka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire– 17 February 1925, Prague, Czechoslovakia), was an art historian with special expertise in the history of Russian and ...

shortly following his death.Hamilton Rhinelander L. (1974
"Exiled Russian Scholars in Prague: The Kondakov Seminar and Institute"
''Canadian Slavonic Papers'' Vol. 16, No. 3 (Autumn / Automne, 1974), pp. 331-352 The first directors were Alexander Kalitinsky and

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– until he left for

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in 1927. They received funding from

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for the initial book celebrating the work of Kondakov.

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