Shakhmatov А.А., (1864-1920), philologist and historian

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SHAKHMATOV Alexey Alexandrovich (1864-1920, Petrograd), philologist and historian, full member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences from 1894. He graduated from Moscow University with a major in history and philology in 1887. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1894, he was the director of the First Department at the Library of the Academy of Sciences from 1899 and the chairman of the Department of Russian Language and Literature from 1906 to 1920. He worked at Petersburg University from 1908, promoted to Professor in 1909. His major works are written on linguistics, textual criticism, and history of the Russian chronicles. He studied Russian language, Indo-European languages, especially the Slavonic group, and Finno-Ugric languages. He was the editor of the academic Dictionary of the Russian Language from 1891 to 1916. He founded the modern methods for studying the Russian Chronicles. He lived at 5 Universitetskaya Embankment in the 1910s. Buried at the Volkovskoe Orthodox Cemetery. His name was given to a street in Petrodvorets.

References: Макаров В. И. "Такого не бысть на Руси преже...": Повесть об акад. А. А. Шахматове. СПб., 2000.

A. A. Kononov. Shakhmatov Alexey Alexandrovich
Shakhmatova Street/Peterhoff, town
Universitetskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Макаров В. И. "Такого не бысть на Руси преже...". Повесть об акад. А. А. Шахматове. СПб., 2000 Russian Academy of Sciences
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg