Boris Marshak

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Boris Ilich Marshak (

excavating the Sogdian ruins at Panjakent
, Tajikistan.

Biography

Boris Ilich Marshak was born in

doctorate of historical sciences from Moscow University in 1982.[1]

Marshak began his work at the

Leningrad.[2][3]

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Marshak's job became significantly more difficult. Funding for fieldwork dried up and he instantly became a foreigner in the new state of

government of Tajikistan, Marshak ensured protection and continued excavation of the Panjakent site. In the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century Marshak received numerous honorariums from international organizations and taught, lectured and conducted fellowships in Italy, the United States, Austria and elsewhere.[1]

Marshak died 28 July 2006 on the site of the Panjakent ruins. He was buried at the site, as requested in his will.[2] His wife, the noted archeologist and Marshak's frequent professional collaborator, Valentina I. Raspopova, later resumed her excavation work at the site.[3]

Honorary awards and memberships

Selected works

Publications authored or edited by Marshak are listed by publishers under several variants of his name. These include: Boris Ilich Marshak, B. I. Marshak, and other combinations of names and initials. In addition, his family name is sometimes rendered in Roman script as Maršak, while his patronymic is sometimes transliterated, Il'ich.

Books

Chapters in edited works

  • "The art of glass along the Silk Road". China: Dawn of a golden age, 200–750 AD. New York; New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press. 2004.
    OCLC 1365879372
    . Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 12 October 2004 – 23 January 2005.
  • "Sogd". In Istoriia tadzhikskogo naroda [History of the Tajik People]. Dushanbe. 2000.
  • "Sogd V-VIII w. Ideologiia po pamiatnikam isskustva". In Brykina, G., ed. (1999) Arkheologija. Srednjaja Azija i Dal'nii Vostok v epokhu srednevekov'ia. Srednjaja Azija v rannem srednevekov'e. Moscow: [Nauka]. pp. 175–191.
  • In Aoyagi, Masanori; Mori, Yōko; Wakakuwa, Midori, eds. (1999). 世界美術大全集 (Sekai bijutsu daizenshū) [New history of world art] (in Japanese). Vol. 15 (Western ed.). Tōkyō: Shōgakkan. Chapters —
    • "Sogdian Art". pp. 207–218
    • "Shogakukan". pp. 386–395
  • "Sughd". In History of Civilization of Central Asia. Vol. III.
    UNESCO Publishing
    . 1996. pp. 233–258.
  • "Iskusstvo Sogda". In 'Tsentral'naia Aziia'. Novye Pamiatniki pis'mennosti i iskusstva. Moscow. 1987. pp. 233–248.
  • "Oriental Analogien zu den Bauwerken von Typus des eingeschriebenen Kreuzes: Pendzikent und Bamian, V-VII Jh". In B. Brentjes, ed., Probleme der Architektur des Orients Halle (Saale). 1983. pp. 53–64. In German.
  • [Coauthored with]: Belenitskii, A. M.; —— (1981). "Part I: The Paintings of Sogdiana". In Guitty Azarpay (ed.). Sogdian Painting: The Pictorial Epic in Oriental Art. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 11–77.
  • [Coauthored with]: Belenitskii, A. M.; ——; Raspopova, V. I. (1979). "Sotsial'naya struktura naseleniya drevnego Pendzhikenta". In B. Gafurov; G. F. Girs; E. A. Davidovich (eds.). Tovarno-denezhnye otnosheniya na Blizhnem i Srednem Vostoke v eµpokhu srednevekov'ya (in Russian). pp. 19–26.
  • [Coauthored with]: Belenitskii, A. M.; —— (1978). "Drevneîshee izobrazhenie osadnoî mashiny v Sredneî Azii" [The oldest representation of a siege engine in Central Asia]. In V. G. Lukonin (ed.). Kul'tura Vostoka: Drevnost' i rannee serdnevekov'e [Culture of the East: Antiquity and early Middle Ages] (in Russian). Leningrad: Izdatel'svto Avrora. pp. 215–221.

Journal articles

     Coauthored

References

  1. ^ a b c d Shkoda, V. (October 2003). "Marshak, Boris Ilich: Curriculum Vitae & Bibliography". Transoxiana: Journal Libre de Estudios Orientales. Webfestschrift Series I. Addendum to Webfestschrift Marshak 2003: Ēran ud Anērān. Retrieved 14 October 2006.
  2. ^ a b c Schoeberlein, John (11 October 2006). "In Memorium: Boris Il'Ich Marshak, 9 July 1933 – 28 July 2006". Harvard FASLists: [email protected]. Retrieved 14 October 2006. <http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/central-eurasia-l>. Archived 23 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^
    ISSN 0002-9114
    .

Further reading

External links
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