Mikhail Artamonov (1898-1972), historian and archaeologist, founder of modern
Khazar studies, excavated a great number of
Scythian and Khazar
kurgans and settlements, including the fortress of
Sarkel
Nikolai Karamzin (1766-1826),
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 (1841-1911), dominated Russian historiography at the turn of the 20th century, shifted focus from politics and society to geography and economy
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), polymath scientist and artist, the first opponent of the
Normanist theory, published an early account of Russian history
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Mikhail Artamonov (1898-1972), historian and archaeologist, founder of modern
Khazar studies, excavated a great number of
Scythian and Khazar
kurgans and settlements, including the fortress of
Sarkel
Nikolay Danilevsky (1822-1885), ethnologist, philosopher and historian, a founder of
Eurasianism, the first to present an account of history as a series of distinct
civilisations
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Madhavan K. Palat (born 1947), since 1989 Professor of Russian and European History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. Visiting Professor of Imperial Russian History at the University of Chicago (2006).
Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), painter, archeologist, and public figure, explorer of
Central Asia, initiator of the international
Roerich’s Pact on protection of historical monuments
Sergey Solovyov (1820-1879), principal Russian 19th-century historian, author of the 29-volume History of Russia
Vasily Struve (1889-1965), orientalist and historian of the
Ancient World, put forth the
Marxist theory of five socio-economic formations that dominated the Soviet education
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