From Roman Yakobson's letters to the academician A.A. Shakhmatov (according to archival data)

The article publishes and analyzes for the first time the letters of R. O. Jakobson to the Academician A.A. Shakhmatov. They preserved in the archival funds of Shakhmatov and the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences. Jakobson’s letters demonstrate the scientific interests of the young researcher: on the one hand, in the field of Russian, Belarusian and Kashubian folk dialects, poetic translations into Lithuanian of A.S. Pushkin’ works, on the other hand, in the field of research and publication of monuments of Old Slavonic literature of the 11th century, what is connected with his diploma thesis on the Cyrillic part of the Reims Gospel. The article reflects the assistance of A.A. Shakhmatov to Jakobson in providing him with scientific publications, in organizing the publication of his first scientific work devoted to Old Bulgarian versification. The researcher received support from Shakhmatov in other matters as well.