List of Russian historians
This list of Russian historians includes the famous
Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire
and other predecessor states of Russia.
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Alphabetical list
A
- Valery Alekseyev (1929-1991), anthropologist, proposed Homo rudolfensis
- Novgorod
B
- Samarcand
- paleographer, founder of the Bestuzhev Coursesfor women
- Mongolian history, opened the first Chinese-language school in Russia
- Boris Hessen (1893-1936), physicist who brought externalism into modern historiography of science
D
- Normanist
- Dimitri Obolensky (1918-2001), historian and Byzantinist
F
- Olbia
- museologist, researched the European accounts of the Time of Troubles
G
- Fayum portraits
- mediaeval studies in Russia, disproved the historicity of Vineta
- Boris Grekov (1882-1953), prominent researcher of Kievan Rus' and Golden Horde
- Peasantry
- Courses Guerrierfor women
- Neo-Eurasianism
H
I
Igor Diakonov (1915-1999), historian and linguist, a prominent researcher of Sumer and Assyria
K
Karamzin
- The Secret History of the Mongols
- sentimentalistwriter and historian, author of the 12-volume History of the Russian State, the principal early 19th-century account of national history
- Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841-1911), dominated Russian historiography at the turn of the 20th century, shifted focus from politics and society to geography and economy
- Byzantinist, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
- Nikodim Kondakov (1844-1925), prominent researcher of Byzantine art
- Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), historian and anthropologist, a founder of cliodynamics, a prominent developer of social cycle theory
- Stanislaw Kuczera, (1928-2020), sinologist and archaeologist
- Nikolay Kun (1877-1940), historian, writer and educator
- Yelena Yefimovna Kuzmina(1931-2013), prominent researcher of prehistory of Indo-Aryan peoples
L
- Platon Levshin (1737-1812), president of the Most Holy Synod during the Age of Enlightenment, author of the first systematic course of the history of Russian Orthodox Church
- sigillographer, prominent also in a number of other auxiliary historical disciplines
- GenealogicalBook
- Normanist theory, published an early account of Russian history
M
Artamonov
- Mykola Kostomarov (1817-1885), historian, folklorist and romantic writer, researched the differences between Great Russia and Little Russia and the history of Ukraine
Klyuchevsky - Noin-Ula
N
- civilisations
M
- Madhavan K. Palat (born 1947), since 1989 Professor of Russian and European History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. Visiting Professor of Imperial Russian History at the University of Chicago (2006).
- Sogdian ruins at Panjakent
- Müller
- Persia
- Yagutil Mishiev (born 1927), writer, author of books about the history of Derbent, Dagestan, Russia.
- Anatoly Moskvin (born 1966), linguist and historian, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home.
- Normanist theory
- Aleksei Musin-Pushkin (1744-1817), prominent collector of ancient Russian manuscripts, discovered The Tale of Igor's Campaign
O
- Dimitri Obolensky (1918-2001), Byzantine commonwealth researcher
- Musin-Pushkin
- Academic Institute of Oriental Studies
- Byzantinist
P
- Avraamy Palitsyn (died 1626), 17th-century historian of the Time of Troubles
- Anna Pankratova (1897–1957), leading Soviet historian, educator and writer
- Evgeny Pashukanis (1891-1937), legal historian, wrote The General Theory of Law and Marxism
- Boris Piotrovsky (1908-1990), prominent researcher of Urartu, Scythia, and Nubia, long-term director of the Hermitage Museum
- Mikhail Piotrovsky (born 1944), orientalist, current director of the Hermitage Museum
- Normanist theory
- Boris Polevoy (1918-2002), major historian of the Russian Far East
- Marxist historian prominent in 1920s
Pogodin - Ice Maiden mummy
- Maecenas, founder of the Russian Historian Society
- Tatyana Proskuryakova (1909-1985), Mayanist scholar and archaeologist, deciphered the ancient Maya script
R
- Remezov Chronicle
- Ancient World, excavated Dura-Europos
- Roerich’s Pacton protection of historical monuments
- Scythian Pazyryk burials
- Proskuryakova
S
- Chernigov
- Bactrian Gold in Central Asia
- Mikhail Shcherbatov (1733-1790), a man of Russian Enlightenment, conservative historian
- Anatoly Pavlovich Shikman (born 1948), author of Figures of Russian History and other works.
- Sergey Solovyov (1820-1879), principal Russian 19th-century historian, author of the 29-volume History of Russia
- Marxisttheory of five socio-economic formations that dominated the Soviet education
T
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia and on the Crimean War
- Sudebnik of 1550 and the controversial Ioachim Chronicle, wrote the first full-scale account of Russian history
- paleography, published the Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles
- Transcaucasia and Central Asia
- Ancient East
- Peter Turchin (born 1957), population biologist and historian, coined the term cliodynamics
U
- Trapezuntine Empire
- Aleksey Uvarov (1825-1884), founder of the first Russian archaeological society, discovered over 750 ancient kurgans
V
- Byzantinist
- Alexander Vasiliev (1867-1953), author of a comprehensive History of the Byzantine Empire
- Nikolay Veselovsky (1848-1918), first to excavate Afrasiab (the oldest part of Samarkand), as well as the Solokha and Maikop kurgans in Southern Russia
Solovyov - Viacheslav Petrovich Volgin, (1879–1962), historian of early communist systems
Y
- Türks
- birch bark documents
Z
- Gennady Zdanovich (born 1938), discoverer of Sintashta culture settlement Arkaim
- Viktor Zemskov (1946-2015), researcher of political repression in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1954
See also
- List of linguists
- List of Russian scientists
- Russian history
- Russian archaeology
- Science and technology in Russia
Further reading
- Baron, Samuel H., and Nancy W. Heer. "The Soviet Union: Historiography Since Stalin." in Georg G. Iggers and Harold Talbot Parker, eds. International handbook of historical studies: contemporary research and theory (Taylor & Francis, 1979). pp 281–94.
- Boyd, Kelly, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing vol 2. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1025–41. ISBN 9781884964336.
- Confino, Michael. "The New Russian Historiography and the Old—Some Considerations," History & Memory (2009) 21#2 Project MUSE
- David-Fox, Michael et al. eds. After the Fall: Essays in Russian and Soviet Historiography (Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2004)
- Eissenstat, Bernard W. "MN Pokrovsky and Soviet Historiography: Some Reconsiderations." Slavic Review 28.4 (1969): 604–618.
- Enteen, George M. The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat: MN Pokrovskii and the Society of Marxist Historians (Penn State Press, 1978).
- Kuzio, Taras. "Historiography and national identity among the Eastern Slavs: towards a new framework." National Identities 3.2 (2001): 109–132. online
- Sanders, Thomas, ed. Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History in a Multinational State (1999).
- Tillett, Lowell. The great friendship: Soviet historians on the non-Russian nationalities (U of North Carolina Press, 1969).
- Topolski, Jerzy. "Soviet Studies and Social History" in Georg G. Iggers and Harold Talbot Parker, eds. International handbook of historical studies: contemporary research and theory (Taylor & Francis, 1979. pp 295–300..