摘要：This article is devoted to the research positions of St. Petersburg State University Corporation during the World War I until the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917. During the war, professorial part of the University Corporation was an active member of the civil society and was involved in the political processes of pre-revolutionary Russia. The authors reconstruct collective “portrait” of university teachers (especially quantitative, social, confessional aspects, etc.), consider problems of “academic patriotism”, “emancipation of the German science”. One of the main aims of this article is to demonstrate influence of war events and condition on the political views and the policy of university administration. The authors also show the changes of pedagogical activity of professors and teachers and science life as a whole. This research used the methods of collective biography construction and prosopography studies.
