Rakov L.L. (1904-1970), Historian, Director of the Museum of Leningrad Defence

Categories / Science. Education/Personalia
RAKOV Lev Lvovich (1904-1970, Leningrad), historian, art historian, museum worker, Ph.D. in History (1938). Rakov graduated from the Department of History of the Leningrad State University in 1929. From 1931, he gave lectures and carried out research work at the Leningrad State University and at the Leningrad State Herzen Pedagogical Institute. He was a research assistant at the State Hermitage from 1935. Later he became the State Hermitage's Academic Secretary. Rakov was arrested on a false charge in 1938, and set free in 1939. He served in the military from the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. Rakov was a lecturer at the Front-Home of the Red Army in 1941. In 1944, he organised and directed the exhibition Heroic Defence of Leningrad. He established the Museum of Leningrad Defence and served as its director in 1946-47 (see the Leningrad Defence and Blockade Museum). Rakov directed the M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library in 1947-49. Rakov was arrested with regard to the Leningrad Case in 1950 then set free and exonerated in 1954. Rakov was the Deputy Director of the A. S. Pushkin All-Russian Museum from 1954. Later, he directed the Professional Library of the Academy of Arts. He wrote several comedies together with D. Al, including What Will They Say Tommorow? and More Dangerous Than an Enemy (1962). He lived at 5 Matveeva Lane during the last years of his life, and was buried in Serafimovskoe Cemetery.

Y. N. Kruzhnov. Al D. (Daniil Natanovich Alschitz)
Herzen Alexander Ivanovich
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Rakov Lev Lvovich
Saltykov-Shchedrin (real name Saltykov) Mikhail Evgrafovich
Matveeva Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
State University, St. Petersburg
Pedagogical University
Hermitage
Leningrad Defence and Blockade Museum
Leningrad Affair
Academy of Arts
Seraphimovskoe Cemetery
1944