In search of the lost: Lituanistica of the first quarter of the 20th century

The article is devoted to the historiography of the post-revolutionary linguistics in Russia: research on lithuanistics, restoration of forgotten names of those Russian scientists who contributed to the develop- ment of Lithua nian linguistics in the first quarter of the XX century. In this context, we are interested in the activities of the little-mentioned and almost forgotten researcher Nikolai Sokolov (1875-1923), a full member of the Lithuanian Scientific Society since lune 27, 1912. N. Sokolov's scientific legacy is very fragmentary. So, to- day we can talk only about the reconstruction of his ac- tivities in Lithuania, for which the authors used in their study receiving Sokolov's self -description of his own work , based on three variants of the list of "Lithuanian" (i.e. in the Lithuanian language and about Lithuania) publications: N. Sokolov's letter to Nikolai Durnovo, dated 6 November 1918, N. Sokolov's curriculum vi- tae from 1909 and 1921, and obituary written upon N. Sokolov's death, by N. Durnovo from lune 2, 1923.