Galina Blagova (Danko) was born in Moscow on August 31, 1927.
In 1945, after hesitating to take the entrance exams for the History or Philology faculty, G. F. Blagova entered the Eastern Department of the Faculty of Philology (Department of Turkic Philology of Moscow State University). Such keepers of Russian philology as the Russian scholar N. I. Liban and the Iranian scholar A. A. Starikov, then head of the Eastern department, played an important role in resolving her doubts.
Blagova's interest in the history of the literary languages of Central Asia, in historical grammar, and later in the search for new research techniques was manifested under the influence of university teachers-N. K. Dmitriev, V. M. Nasilov, E. N. Najip, and E. V. Sevortyan. In 1949, when V. M. Nasilov noticed in a diligent student a tendency to study history, he announced the topic of her thesis "The language of Babur-nameh". In the spring months of 1950, a discussion took place on Stalin's article "Marxism and Questions of Linguistics". Unexpectedly, the topic became relevant, which is why G. F. Blagova entered the graduate school of Philology.
In 1954, G. F. Blagova defended her PhD thesis "Characteristics of the grammatical structure of the Old Uzbek language according to Babur-nama", in which she continued the interrupted national tradition of philological study of the main work of Emperor Babur - his Notes.
40 years later, based on her numerous developments in this field and using the latest achievements of modern branches of linguistics, she published the monograph "Baburname: language, text pragmatics, style" (Moscow, 1994). This book is now used in teaching, and not only in Oriental studies.
In the process of preparing the monograph for publication, G. F. Blagova first "met" A. N. Samoilovich, the "main character" of her recent historiographical research. It is no secret that the scientist could not help but be interested in Babur's work. Blagova also discovered the systematic nature ...
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