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DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2025.4.12
The main objective of the publication is to reconstruct the biography of one of the first female researchers of Siberia, M. V. Krasnozhenova, and to assess her contribution
to modern ethnological/anthropological science, taking into account the heuristic value of studying women’s biographies and autobiographies. In this article, the author reconstructs the stages of formation of the scientific destiny of this researcher, much less known than V. N. Kharuzina, to whom many dissertations and monographs are dedicated. The author also reflects on the obstacles and support that ordinary women in science still lack to this day. Krasnozhenova had to go through a difficult life path to inscribe her name in the Russian academic corporation of ethnographers of the “first call” in the late 19th and early 20th century. M. V. Krasnozhenova, the first Russian Siberian scientist, is one of the brightest representatives of “self-made women”, a researcher who had to earn a place in the strictly “male” world of scientists of the Russian Geographical Society by her hard work.