Dmitri Ivanovich Ilowaiski

Dmitri Ilovaisky

Dmitri Ivanovich Ilowaiski ( Russian Дмитрий Иванович Иловайский * January 30 ^{. Jul} / 11. February  1832 ^greg. In Ranenburg ; †  15. February 1920 in Moscow ) was a Russian historian and publicist .

Life

Ilowaiski, son of an estate manager of the Countess von der Pahlen , attended the Ranenburg public school and from 1845–1850 the Ryazan boys' high school . 1850-1854 he studied at the University of Moscow in the historical - philological faculty . After completing his studies, he wanted to enter the military, but this had to be refused because of the suspicion of tuberculosis . As a publicly funded student he was obliged to work for the Ministry of Popular Education for at least six years , he returned to Ryazan to teach at the familiar high school and, at the suggestion of the then Vice-Governor Mikhail Yevgrafowitsch Saltykov-Shchedrin, the literature department of the government newspaper to direct.

1858 put Ilowaiski his Magister - thesis The history of the Principality of Ryazan in front of the University of Moscow. In the presence of the rector, he successfully defended it against the official opponents Sergei Michailowitsch Solowjow and Stepan Wassiljewitsch Jeschewski and the criticism of Ossip Maximowitsch Bodjanski and Sergei Michailowitsch Schpilewski , so that he was awarded a master's degree and the dissertation was published at public expense. For his dissertation he was awarded the small Uwarow Prize of the Academy of Sciences . Thanks to the help of Count Alexei Sergeyevich Uvarov , he was given a senior teaching position at the Third Moscow High School on Lubyanka Square. In Moscow he joined a group of young scientists around the historian Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Bestuschew-Ryumin (1829-1897), with whom he remained on friendly terms.

In 1860 Ilowaiski was appointed adjunct at the Chair of General History of the Law Faculty of Moscow University, but in 1861 he was sent by ukase from St. Petersburg to study abroad in preparation for the professorship. On his return in 1862 he asked for his release because he did not feel up to the simultaneous teaching and research. He now devoted himself to scientific and journalistic work. Likewise, in 1865 he turned down a call to the University of Kiev .

With his textbook on history , which had more than 150 editions, Ilovaisky trained many generations of high school students, and he made a good living from his publications. In 1870 Moscow University awarded him the title of Doctor of Russian History . He dealt intensively with the Rus and the emergence of the Russian people, where he became a critic of the Norman theory . He also assigned the Slavs a major role in the great migration and an important role in the league of the Huns . After the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 , he was one of the first to consider a revolutionary movement in Russia to be strange and a blind tool in the hands of Poles and Jews. After the revolution of 1905 he developed from a normal conservative to a radical conservative and appeared in the League of the Russian People and other monarchist organizations. From 1897 to 1916 he published the right-wing conservative newspaper Der Kreml with mostly his own articles. After the October Revolution he was arrested several times by the Cheka .

Ilowaiski's daughter Varvara Dmitrijewna Ilowaiskaja was the first wife of the classical philologist and founder of the Pushkin Museum Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev .

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• Andrei Ivanov: "I'm not afraid of death": Dmitrij Ivanovich Ilowaiskij . Russkaja Linija, December 1, 2005 (Russian, accessed September 12, 2015)
• Rodovid: Dmitrij Ivanovich Ilowaiskij (Russian, accessed September 12, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oleg Vitalievich Budnizki : In a strange feast: The Jews and the Russian Revolution in the anthology: The Jews and the Russian Revolution . Gescharim Publishing House, Moscow 1999.