List of Russian historians

Alphabetical list

A

• Friedrich von Adelung, historian and museologist, researched the European accounts of the Time of Troubles
• Valery Alekseyev, anthropologist, proposed Homo rudolfensis
• Mikhail Artamonov, historian and archaeologist, founder of modern Khazar studies, excavated a great number of Scythian and Khazar kurgans and settlements, including the fortress of Sarkel
• Artemiy Artsikhovsky, archaeologist, discoverer of birch bark documents in Novgorod

  B

• Vasily Bartold, turkologist, the "Gibbon of Turkestan", an archaeologist of Samarcand
• Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, 19th-century historian and paleographer, founder of the Bestuzhev Courses for women
• Nikita Bichurin, a founder of Sinology, published many documents on Chinese and Mongolian history, opened the first Chinese-language school in Russia

  D

• Nikolay Danilevsky, ethnologist, philosopher and historian, a founder of Eurasianism, the first to present an account of history as a series of distinct civilisations
• Igor Diakonov, historian and linguist, a prominent researcher of Sumer and Assyria

  F

• Boris Farmakovsky, archaeologist of Ancient Greek colony Olbia

  G

• Vladimir Golenishchev, egyptologist, excavated Wadi Hammamat, discovered over 6,000 antiquities, including the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Story of Wenamun, and various Fayum portraits
• Timofey Granovsky, a founder of mediaeval studies in Russia, disproved the historicity of Vineta
• Boris Grekov, prominent researcher of Kievan Rus' and Golden Horde
• Alexander V. Gordon, prominent researcher of French revolution, Third world and Peasantry
• Vladimir Guerrier, historian of the French revolution, founder of the Courses Guerrier for women
• Lev Gumilev, historian and ethnologist, prominent researcher of ancient Central Asian peoples, related ethnogenesis and biosphere, influenced the rise of Neo-Eurasianism

  H

• Boris Hessen, physicist who brought externalism into modern historiography of science

  I

• Dmitry Ilovaysky, major 19th century anti-Normanist

  K

• Pyotr Kafarov, prominent sinologist, discovered many invaluable manuscripts, including The Secret History of the Mongols
• Nikolai Karamzin, sentimentalist writer and historian, author of the 12-volume History of the Russian State, the principal early 19th-century account of national history
• Vasily Klyuchevsky, dominated Russian historiography at the turn of the 20th century, shifted focus from politics and society to geography and economy
• Alexander Kazhdan, Byzantinist, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
• Nikodim Kondakov, prominent researcher of Byzantine art
• Andrey Korotayev, historian and anthropologist, a founder of cliodynamics, a prominent developer of social cycle theory
• Nikolay Kostomarov, historian, folklorist and romantic writer, researched the differences between Great Russia and Little Russia and the history of Ukraine
• Pyotr Kozlov, explorer of Central Asia, discoverer of the ancient Tangut city of Khara-Khoto and Xiongnu royal burials at Noin-Ula
• :ru:Кучера,_Станислав_Роберт|Stanislaw Kuczera,, sinologist and archaeologist
• Yelena Yefimovna Kuzmina, prominent researcher of prehistory of Indo-Aryan peoples

  L

• Platon Levshin, president of the Most Holy Synod during the Age of Enlightenment, author of the first systematic course of the history of Russian Orthodox Church
• Nikolay Likhachyov, first and foremost Russian sigillographer, prominent also in a number of other auxiliary historical disciplines
• Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, statesman, published the major Russian Genealogical Book
• Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath scientist and artist, the first opponent of the Normanist theory, published an early account of Russian history

  M

• Madhavan K. Palat, since 1989 Professor of Russian and European History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. Visiting Professor of Imperial Russian History at the University of Chicago.
• Boris Marshak, excavated the Sogdian ruins at Panjakent
• Friedrich Martens, legal historian, drafted the Martens Clause of the Hague Peace Conference
• Vladimir Minorsky, prominent historian of Persia
• Yagutil Mishiev, writer, author of books about the history of Derbent, Dagestan, Russia.
• Anatoly Moskvin, linguist and historian, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home.
• Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, co-founder of the Russian Academy of Sciences, explorer and the first academic historian of Siberia, a founder of ethnography, author of the first academic account of Russian history, put forth the Normanist theory
• Aleksei Musin-Pushkin, prominent collector of ancient Russian manuscripts, discovered The Tale of Igor's Campaign

  O

• Dimitri Obolensky, Byzantine commonwealth researcher
• Alexey Okladnikov, prominent historian and archaeologist of Siberia and Mongolia
• Sergey Oldenburg, a founder of Russian Indology and the Academic Institute of Oriental Studies
• George Ostrogorsky''', preeminent 20th century Byzantinist

  P

• Avraamy Palitsyn, 17th-century historian of the Time of Troubles
• Anna Pankratova, leading Soviet historian, educator and writer
• Evgeny Pashukanis, legal historian, wrote The General Theory of Law and Marxism
• Boris Piotrovsky, prominent researcher of Urartu, Scythia, and Nubia, long-term director of the Hermitage Museum
• Mikhail Piotrovsky, orientalist, current director of the Hermitage Museum
• Mikhail Pogodin, leading mid-19th-century Russian historian, proponent of the Normanist theory
• Boris Polevoy, major historian of the Russian Far East
• Mikhail Pokrovsky, Marxist historian prominent in 1920s
• Natalia Polosmak, archaeologist of Pazyryk burials, discoverer of Ice Maiden mummy
• Alexander Polovtsov, statesman, historian and Maecenas, founder of the Russian Historian Society
• Tatyana Proskuryakova''', Mayanist scholar and archaeologist, deciphered the ancient Maya script

  R

• Semyon Remezov, cartographer and the first historian of Siberia, author of the Remezov Chronicle
• Mikhail Rostovtsev, archeologist and economist, the first to thoroughly examine the social and economic systems of the Ancient World, excavated Dura-Europos
• Nicholas Roerich, painter, archeologist, and public figure, explorer of Central Asia, initiator of the international Roerich’s Pact on protection of historical monuments
• Sergei Rudenko, discoverer of Scythian Pazyryk burials
• Boris Rybakov, historian and chief Soviet archaeologist for 40 years, primary opponent of the Normanist theory

  S

• Dmitry Samokvasov, discoverer of Black Grave in Chernigov
• Viktor Sarianidi, discoverer of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex and the Bactrian Gold in Central Asia
• Mikhail Shcherbatov, a man of Russian Enlightenment, conservative historian
• Sergey Solovyov, principal Russian 19th-century historian, author of the 29-volume History of Russia
• Vasily Struve, orientalist and historian of the Ancient World, put forth the Marxist theory of five socio-economic formations that dominated the Soviet education

  T

• Yevgeny Tarle, author of the famous studies on Napoleon's invasion of Russia and on the Crimean War
• Vasily Tatischev, statesman, geographer and historian, discovered and published Russkaya Pravda, Sudebnik of 1550 and the controversial Ioachim Chronicle, wrote the first full-scale account of Russian history
• Mikhail Tikhomirov, leading specialist in medieval Russian paleography, published the Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles
• Kamilla Trever, specialist in the history and culture of Transcaucasia and Central Asia
• Boris Turayev, author of the first full-scale History of Ancient East
• Peter Turchin, population biologist and historian, coined the term cliodynamics

  U

• Fyodor Uspensky, Byzantinist, researcher of the Trapezuntine Empire
• Aleksey Uvarov, founder of the first Russian archaeological society, discovered over 750 ancient kurgans

  V

• Vasily Vasilievsky, prominent 19th century Byzantinist
• Alexander Vasiliev, author of a comprehensive History of the Byzantine Empire
• Nikolay Veselovsky, first to excavate Afrasiab, as well as the Solokha and Maikop kurgans in Southern Russia
• Viacheslav Petrovich Volgin,, historian of early communist systems

  Y

• Nikolai Yadrintsev, discoverer of Genghis Khan's capital Karakorum and the Orkhon script of ancient Türks
• Valentin Yanin, primary researcher of ancient birch bark documents

  Z

• Gennady Zdanovich, discoverer of Sintashta culture settlement Arkaim
• Viktor Zemskov, researcher of political repression in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1954