Sergey Solovyov (historian)
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Sergey Mikhaylovich Solovyov, sometimes Soloviev or Solovyev (
Life and works
Solovyov studied in the
Solovyov's magnum opus was the History of Russia from the Earliest Times, totally unprecedented in its scope and depth. From 1851 until his death, he published 29 volumes of this work. Among his other books, the History of Poland's Downfall (1863) and the Public Readings on Peter the Great (1872) were probably the most popular.
Views and influence
Solovyov appreciated Russia's position as the outpost of
In the words of the 2004 Encyclopædia Britannica, his History "wove a vast body of data into a unified and orderly whole that provided an exceptionally powerful and vivid picture of Russia's political development over the centuries. The work inaugurated a new era in Russian scholarship with its depiction of Russia as evolving through organic and rational processes from a primitive, family-based society into a centralized, autocratic state".
His book History of Russia from the Earliest Times is mentioned in Fyodor Dostoevsky famous novel The Idiot.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Бондарюкф (Bondaryuk), Елена (Elena) (16 March 2018). "Дочь своего века, или Изменчивая Allegro" [The Daughter of Her Age, or the Volatile Allegro]. Крымский ТелеграфЪ (in Russian). No. 471. Simferopol, Crimea. Archived from the original on 4 October 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ Kostalevsky, Marina. (1992). Dostoevsky and Vladimir Soloviev: The continuous dialogue. Yale University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
- Solovyov, Sergey Mikhailovich, in online Russian Biographical Dictionary (in Russian)
- Sergey Solovyov. History of Russia from the Earliest Times, ISBN 5-17-002142-9 [1](in Russian)