Evdokia Kozhevnikova
Soviet ethnographer
Evdokia Kozhevnikova-Gugushvili (Georgian: ევდოკია კოჟევნიკოვა-გუგუშვილი; Russian: Евдокия Иннокентьевна Коже́вникова-Гугушвили, romanized: Yevdokiya Innokent'yevna Kozhevnikova-Gugushvili; 28 December 1905 – 1975) was a Soviet ethnographer who did extensive fieldwork in the province of Svaneti in the Republic of Georgia. During the course of her fieldwork, she acquired considerable fluency in Svan, and produced some 1200 handwritten pages in the language between 1927 and 1936. She never completed her dissertation, and her unpublished work remained almost entirely unknown to the academic world until her records were rediscovered in the 2010s. Since then, researchers at the Georgian National Museum as well as some foreign anthropologists have begun to catalog, translate, and analyse several hundred pages from Kozhevnikova's archives. In 2023, the Georgian National Museum published a compilation of papers about Kozhevnikova and her work, entitled Dina Kozhevnikova: Ethnographical Records.
Early life and education
Kozhevnikova was born on 28 December 1905 in Blagoveshchensk, in what was then the Amur Oblast of the Russian Empire. Her parents were Innokenty Yakovlevich Kozhevnikov (Russian: Иннокентий Яковлевич Кожевников), who served the Russian Imperial government as a Manchurian language specialist and envoy, and his wife Elena Leonova Kozhevnikova (Russian: Елена Леонова Кожевникова; née Chekhovich). She was the youngest of four children. After Evdokia's father died in 1908 at the age of 45, her mother moved the family to Saint Petersburg, where Evdokia was enrolled in the Pavlovsky Institute for Girls of the Nobility (Russian: Павловский институт благородных девиц).
In 1923, Evdokia graduated from St.
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