Venedikt Miakotin

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V.A. Miakotin in 1906

Venedikt Aleksandrovich Miakotin (Russian: Венеди́кт Алекса́ндрович Мяко́тин; 12 March 1867 – 5 October 1937) was a Russian Empire historian and Narodnik politician.

Biography

V. A. Miakotin was born in

P.B. Struve and S.N. Prokopovich, and liberal nationalists like P.N. Miliukov, Miakotin founded the 'Union of Liberation' in 1904, from which the Constitutional-Democratic Party
emerged.

However, Miakotin, like other 'Legal Populists', also maintained contact with illegal circles and with the

Trudovik (Labour) group around A.F. Kerensky
. He also helped edit the NSP's journal Narodnoe Slovo (The People’s Word).

In 1914, Miakotin adopted a '

University of Sofia in 1928. He eventually settled in Prague
and died there in 1937.

Miakotin wrote many works on Russian and Ukrainian history, including Istoriia na Rossiia (1936), Na zarie russkoǐ obshchestvennosti (1905) and Iz istorii russkago obshchestva (1902).

References

Also passim:

  • Lazarski, Ch., The Lost Opportunity: Attempts at Unification of the Anti-Bolsheviks, 1917-19. Lanham, 2008.
  • Tuminez, A.S., Russian Nationalism since 1856: Ideology and the Making of Foreign Policy. Lanham, 2000.