Romanov B.A., (1889-1957), historian

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ROMANOV Boris Alexandrovich (1889, St. Petersburg - 1957, Leningrad), historian, PhD degree in history (1941). After graduating from the faculty of history and philology of the University of St. Petersburg in 1911, he taught history at secondary educational establishments. From 1918 to 1929, he collaborated with the Central Archives, teaching at the same time at Petrograd University (1919-27). In 1930, he was arrested upon the so-called Academic Affair and served a term, working on the White Sea-Baltic Canal (1931-33). From 1941 to 1944, he worked at the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. From 1944 to 1953, he held the professorship at the State Leningrad University, performing the functions of a research fellow at Leningrad section of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1944 to 1957. He left a number of works and publications on Russian history, the history of international relations and economic history. He used to live at 17 Fifth Krasnoarmeiskaya Street and was buried at Okhtinskoe cemetery.

References: Панеях В. М. Творчество и судьба историка: Борис Александрович Романов. СПб., 2000.

N. L. Korsakova. Romanov Boris Alexandrovich
5th Krasnoarmeiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
Панеях В. М. Творчество и судьба историка: Борис Александрович Романов. СПб., 2000 State University, St. Petersburg
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Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg