Afanasy Shchapov
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Afanasiy Prokopievich Shchapov (
Siberian nationalism
" and persecuted by tsarist authorities.
Life
Afanasiy Shchapov was born in the village of Anga some 210 miles from
sectarian
affairs. In 1862, he was discharged and placed under police surveillance.
Afanasiy Shchapov was a contributor for many Russian
ethnographer, organized by the Siberian Department of the Russian Geographic Society. Afanasiy Shchapov died of tuberculosis
in 1876.
Ideas
Afanasiy Shchapov authored many works on the history of
Grigory Yeliseyev and Stepan Yeshevsky, he came forward as a supporter of the so-called "zemstvo-oblast theory" (земско-областническая теория), viewing Russian history as an interaction process between certain "oblasts". Shchapov's focus on geography and economics as two principal agencies in history is thought to have heralded the next generation of Russian historians, as represented by Vasily Klyuchevsky, Paul Vinogradoff, and Michael Rostovtzeff
. Since geographical conditions of various Russian lands differed enormously, Shchapov scorned the possibility of writing a general history of Russia. He held that Sibiryaks were ethnically distinct from the rest of Russian nation, as their character was shaped by rugged nature of inhospitable land they lived in and by the adventurous and enterprising spirit of the Old Believers who had been the original settlers of Siberia.
See also
- Slavophile
- Mykola Kostomarov
- Henry Thomas Buckle
References
- ISBN 978-1-350-09556-4.
Bibliography
- Hanson, Gary Alan (1985). Afanasii Prokof'evich Schapov, 1830-1876: Russian Historian and Social Thinker. University of Wisconsin.
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