Georgi Vladimirovich Vernadsky

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Georgi Vladimirovich Vernadsky ( Russian Георгий Владимирович Вернадский , English George Vernadsky * August 20 jul. / 1. September  1887 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 20 June 1973 in New Haven (Connecticut) ) was a Russian-American historian .

Vernadsky was the son of Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadski . During the Russian Civil War , he emigrated first to Czechoslovakia, then to the United States in 1927. In 1946 he became professor of Russian history at Yale University .

literature

  • Alan D. Ferguson: George Vernadsky, 1887–1973. In: Russian Review, 1973 (32), pp. 456-458.