Vol.1, No 3, 1996 pp. 137 - 139
We are publishing this supplement instead of a necrology to the distinguished scientist who had long studied the Serbian language, and our dear friend Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy - Editor's note

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CONTRIBUTION OF NIKITA TOLSTOY TO THE STUDY OF OLD SLAVIC CULTURE
Ljubinko Radenković
Serbian Academy of Scinces and Arts, Institute of Balcanology, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Abstract. Serbian national culture entered through the wide door of Slavistic research thanks to Nikita Tolstoy and his successors (called "Tolstoyans" occasionally). Thus, several decades of efforts, undertaken by numerous vocabulary registrants, teachers, priests and other literate people who saved a part of our past from oblivion by writing down various linguistic items, have adequately confirmed their validity.

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DOPRINOS NIKITE TOLSTOJA PROUČAVANJU STARE SLOVENSKE KULTURE Zahvaljujući Nikiti Tolstoju i nastavljačima njegovog rada (koje neki nazivaju "tolstojevci") na široka vrata slavističkih istraživanja ušla je srpska narodna kultura. Višedecenijski napor mnogih zapisivača, učitelja, sveštenika i drugih pismenih ljudi, koji su svojim zapisima otrgli od zaborava deo naše prošlosti time je dobio odgovarajuće vrednovanje.