Kareev N.I. (1850-1931), historian

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KAREEV Nikolay Ivanovich (1850-1931, Leningrad), historian, sociologist, corresponding member of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1910), honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1929), corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1919). Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University (1873). Holder of a master's (1879) and doctor's (1884) degrees in World History. In 1879-84, held a professorship at Warsaw University. In 1885, moved to St. Petersburg; in 1885-1907, lectured at Alexandrovsky Lyceum, concurrently, since 1885, worked as privat-docent and since 1886 as professor of St. Petersburg University and Higher Women’s Courses (Bestuzhev Courses). In 1899, he was dismissed from his position after he was suspected in political libertinism; was restored in his position only by 1906. In 1905, Kareev joined the Constitutional Democratic Party; in 1906, was elected to the First State Duma. Kareev authored works on the history of Western Europe, agrarian history of France, history and historiography of the French Revolution of the late 18th century, history of Poland, sociology and philosophy of history. In 1891-1912, Kareev lived at 9 Tenth Line of Vasilievsky Island; since 1912 - at 24 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island. Buried at Smolenskoe Orthodox cemetery. Kareev wrote memoirs entitled Lived and Outlived (Leningrad, 1990) - an important source on scientific and cultural life of St. Petersburg of the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

References: Золотарев В. П. Историческая концепция Н. И. Кареева: содержание и эволюция. Л., 1988; Погодин С. Н. "Русская школа" historianов: Н. И. Кареев, И. В. Лучицкий, М. М. Ковалевский. СПб., 1997; Николай Иванович Кареев: человек, ученый, обществ. деятель: Материалы 1-й Всерос.науч. конф. ... Сыктывкар, 2002.

N. L. Korsakova. Kareev Nikolay Ivanovich
10th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Bolshoy Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 24
Золотарев В. П. Историческая концепция Н. И. Кареева: содержание и эволюция. Л., 1988
Николай Иванович Кареев: человек, ученый, обществ. деятель: Материалы 1-й Всерос.науч. конф. ... Сыктывкар, 2002 Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
Lyceum
Bestuzhev's Courses