title: “Nobody can be ... a professor without a doctorate”: discussions about the doctoral dissertation of Andrey Ugyansky
abstract: The university charter of 1863 gave Russian universities the right and responsibility to approve academic degrees, which led to indecision of professors in making appropriate decisions. On the basis of archival materials of Kazan and Moscow universities, the article reconstructs the process of discussing several variants of a doctoral dissertation of the Kazan classical philologist Andrey Ugiansky in 1863–1868.
journal: Transaction Kola Science Centre