Grevs I.M. (1860-1941), historian, regional ethnographer

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GREVS Ivan Mikhailovich (1860-1941), historian, regional ethnographer, pedagogue and public figure. Lived in St. Petersburg since 1873. Grevs graduated from Larin Gymnasium (1879) and the Department of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University (1883). He was a professor at Higher Women's (Bestuzhev) courses (since 1892) and St. Petersburg University (since 1903). In 1905 he became one of the founders of Academic Union. In 1921-24, he headed the Humanitarian Department of Petrograd Scientific Research Excursion Institute; a member of the Central Regional Study Bureau since 1925. In 1930 he was temporarily arrested in the case of Fellows of the Academy. He taught at the department of History of Leningrad State University since 1934 until his death. Grevs educated numerous outstanding mediaevalists and regional ethnographers (inter alia N.P. Antsiferov). In theory and practice he followed the so-called excursion method of teaching history (visual perception of history). Grevs authored works on the history of Roman landholding, medieval life and culture, and on the works of I.S. Turgenev; he was a founder of the City Studies discipline in our country. During various years he lived at 6 First Line of Vasilievsky Island; at 17 Sixth Line of Vasilievsky Island; at 60 Seventh Line of Vasilievsky Island; at 42 Eleventh Line of Vasilievsky Island,; at 21 Fourteenth Line of Vasilievsky Island,; at 40 Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street (at present, 42 Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street); at 31-33 Fourteenth Line of Vasilievsky Island; at 12 Tuchkova Embankment (at present, 20 Makarova Embankment). Since 1924 he lived at 48 Ninth Line of Vasilievsky Island. Grevs was buried at Volkovskoe Lutheran Cemetery.

Works: In the young days: For culture, in Byloe journal, 1918, № 12, P. 42-88; 1921, № 16, P. 137-166;A monumental city and historical sightseeing: (The basic idea of educational journeys through major cultural centres), in Exkursionnoe delo(Art of sightseeing) Journal, 1921, № 1, P. 21-34.

References: Вялова С. О. К творческой биографии профессора Гревса // Из истории рукописных и старопечатных собраний: (Исслед. Обзоры. Публикации): Сб. науч. тр. Л., 1979. С. 123-141; Враская О. Б. Архивные материалы И. М. Гревса и Н. П. Анциферова по изучению города // Археографический ежегодник за 1981 год. М., 1982. С. 305-315; Анциферов Н. П. Иван Михайлович Гревс: Из воспоминаний // Памятники культуры. Новые открытия: Ежегодник, 1985. М., 1986. С. 59-69.

A. D. Margolis. Antsiferov Nikolay Pavlovich
Grevs Ivan Mikhailovich
Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
1st Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
6th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
7th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 60
9th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 48
11th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 42
14th Line Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 31
14th Line Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 33
14th Line Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 21
Bolshaya Pushkarskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 42
Makarova Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
В годы юности: За культуру // Былое, 1918
Монументальный город и исторические экскурсии: (Основная идея образоват. путешествий по крупным центрам культуры) // Экскурсион. дело, 1921
Вялова С. О. К творческой биографии профессора Гревса // Из истории рукописных и старопечатных собраний: (Исслед. Обзоры. Публ.): Сб. науч. тр. Л., 1979
Враская О. Б. Архивные материалы И. М. Гревса и Н. П. Анциферова по изучению города // Археографический ежегодник за 1981 год. М., 1982
Анциферов Н. П. Иван Михайлович Гревс: Из воспоминаний // Памятники культуры. Новые открытия: Ежегодник, 1985. М., 1986 State University, St. Petersburg
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