Mikhail Mikhailovich Shcherbatov

Mikhail Shcherbatov, portrayed by Dmitri Levitsky

Prince Michail Michailowitsch Schcherbatow ( Russian Михаил Михайлович Щербатов ; scientific transliteration Michail Michajlovič Ščerbatov ; born 1733 , died 1790 ) was a Russian historian, philosopher and political ideologist of the Russian Enlightenment . He was an imperial Russian herald master and chamberlain .

He is best known as the author of a work on the corruption of morals in Russia . His work Reise ins Land Ophir is a state utopia with the social utopia of a Russian aristocratic state . His comprehensive Russian history from the earliest times remained unfinished.

Shcherbatov dealt with the despotism introduced by Peter the Great in Russia . He took a conservative stance in the face of this problem. He criticized the imitation of Western standards of which the reformer was so proud. He saw the secret of Russian power not in reforms, but in the tradition of cooperation between tsars and boyars .

The diary of Peter the Great from 1698 to the conclusion of the New Town Peace (in 1721) was published by Shcherbatov (St. Petersburg, 1770–1772).

Works

• About the moral corruption in Russia. Edited by Karl Stahlin . From the Russ. transfer and edit by Ina Friedländer with co-worker from Sergjej Jacobsohn. Berlin: Newa-Verl., 1925 ( sources and essays on Russian history 5)
• Russian history. (Translated by Christian Heinrich Hase). ( Partial online view ; in modernized notation :)
  • Part 1: From the beginning to the death of Grand Duke Yaroslav Vladimirovich
  • Part 2: From the beginning of the Isjalslav Yaroslavich government to the subjugation of Russia by the Tatars . Danzig Flörke, 1779
• Journey to the Land of Ophir (Puteschestwije w semlju Ofirskuju Путешествие в землю Офирскую Putešestvie v zemlju Ofirskuju) - Russian
• (Ed.) Žurnal, ili, Podennaja zapiska, blažennyja i včnodostojnyja pamjati Gosudarja Imperatora Petra Velikago s 1698 goda, daže do zaključenja Nejštatskago mira (St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences , 1770–1772)
  • Diary of Peter the Great: from 1698 to the conclusion of the New Town Peace ; from the Russ. Originals over. Berlin u. a. 1773 ( digitized version )

See also

• Land of Ophir

References and footnotes

1. ↑ digitized version (Russian)

literature

• Eva-Maria Hartenstein: Michail M. Ščerbatov (1733–1790) as the political ideologue of the Russian nobility and his utopian state writing "Reise ins Land Ophir": e. Contribution to research d. social Thinking in Russia in d. second half d. 18th century dissertation Uni Halle 1986

Web links

• Mikhayl Mikhaylovich Shcherbatov
• On the Corruption of Morals in Russia (partial view)

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