Solovyov, Sergey Mikhaylovich

Solovyov, Sergey Mikhaylovich

▪ Russian historian
Solovyov also spelled  Soloviev  
born May 5 [May 17, New Style], 1820, Moscow, Russia
died April 4 [April 16], 1879, Moscow

      one of the greatest Russian historians.

      The son of a clergyman, Solovyov graduated from Moscow University in 1842 and joined the faculty of that institution as an assistant professor of Russian history in 1845. He became a full professor in 1850 and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1877. In the course of his academic career Solovyov held several important administrative posts at Moscow University, published several works concerning Peter I the Great and Alexander I, and acted as tutor to the tsarevich Nikolay Aleksandrovich (1859) and to the future tsar Alexander III (1866). Solovyov's reputation as one of the greatest of all Russian historians rests on his monumental 29-volume History of Russia From Ancient Times, 28 volumes of which were published between 1851 and Solovyov's death in 1879. The 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. Solovyov's work greatly influenced virtually all later Russian historians.

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