Sergei Mikhailovich Solovyov

Portrait of Sergei Mikhailovich Solovyov

Sergey Solovyov ( Russian Сергей Михайлович Соловьёв , scientific. Transliteration Sergei Solovyev Michajlovič ; born May 5 ^{. Jul} / 17th May  1820 ^greg. In Moscow ; † October 4 ^{. Jul} / 16th October  1879 ^{. Greg} ibid) was a Russian historian .

Life

He studied in Moscow and spent the years 1842–1844 abroad as a tutor to Count Stroganov , mainly in Paris . After he obtained his master's degree with his work “On Relations between Novgorod and the Grand Dukes” and his doctorate with “The History of Relations between the Princes of the Ruriks”, he gave lectures on history at Moscow University , in 1855 dean of the philosophical faculty and 1871 rector of the university.

SM Solovyov on a Soviet postage stamp (1991)

In addition, he taught history to the grand dukes in Petersburg and held the post of director of the antiquities collection in the Kremlin . When the Minister of Education Tolstoy wanted to abolish the liberal university statute, Solovyov got into a dispute with the authorities and demanded his dismissal in 1877, which he received. He died in Moscow on October 4, 1879.

He was the father of the symbolist poet and philosopher Vladimir Solovyov .

Works (selection)

In addition to numerous articles on historical science and Russian history in periodicals, the following should be mentioned:

• Historical letters (1858–59)
• Schlözer and the anti-historical direction
• The story of the fall of Poland (1863; German von Spörer , Gotha 1865)
• Emperor Alexander I , Politics and Diplomacy (1877)
• Textbook of Russian History (7th edition 1879)
• Popular Lectures on Russian History (1874)
• New history course
• Political and diplomatic history of Alexander I (1877)
• Russian history from the oldest times (1851–80, vol. 1–29, reaching to 1774).

Web links

• Literature by and about Sergei Michailowitsch Solowjow in the catalog of the German National Library