“I have no other news to share for now…”: A letter from historian N.I. Radtsig to N.I. Kareev (1931)

A previously unpublished letter sent in January 1931 by N.I. Radtsig, a historian of the modern era, to N.I. Kareev, his colleague, is introduced into academic discourse and analyzed. Found in N.I. Kareev’s collection at the Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library, this letter is the last known contact between the two scholars who studied at Moscow University under V.I. Guerrier, one of the greatest historians of his time, and maintained a long correspondence thereafter. They did not only discuss the history of France, in which they were both interested, but also developed a friendly relationship, as evidenced by N.I. Kareev’s notebooks, where he recorded all his visits and the correspondence he received or sent in 1920–1930, as well as by several letters from N.I. Radtsig, including the last one, that were written in 1925, 1930, and 1931.