Historical Society of St. Petersburg University

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HISTORICAL SOCIETY of St. Petersburg University founded in 1889 on the initiative of Professor N. I. Kareev, who became its permanent chairman. The society had its meetings at the Faculty of History and Philology. It consisted of over 160 people in 1890, over 270 in 1895, and over 180 in 1915, historians of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, etc. took part in its activities including A. S. Lappo-Danilevsky, V. I. Semevsky, I. V. Luchitsky, N. P. Pavlov-Silvansky, E. V. Tarle, and B. D. Grekov. In 1903, the society was joined by the department of general history with I. M. Grevs holding the chair and the department of Russian history with Lappo-Danilevsky holding the chair. Members of the society paid special attention to the theory of historical science. The student disorders of the late 1890s, followed by the dismissals of Kareev and a number of other professors from the university in 1899, and the events of 1905-07 were used by the authorities to impose restrictions on the activities of the society, which suffered a decline in those years. The society resumed active work after 1907, although its meetings were held in private. The society published 21 volumes of a nonperiodical History Review between 1890 and 1916. It was dissolved after October 1917.

Reference: Краткий обзор деятельности Исторического общества за двадцатипятилетие, 1889-1914 гг. // Ист. обозрение. 1915. Т. 20. С. 188-200; Кононова Н. Н. Историческое общество при Петербургском университете: (Крат. ист. очерк) // Очерки по истории Ленинградского университета. Л., 1968. Т. 2. С. 138-151.

O. N. Ansberg. Grekov Boris Dmitrievich
Grevs Ivan Mikhailovich
Kareev Nikolay Ivanovich
Lappo-Danilevsky Alexander Sergeevich
Luchitsky Ivan Vasilievich
Pavlov-Silvansky Nikolay Pavlovich
Semevsky Vasily Ivanovich
Tarle Evgeny Viktorovich
Краткий обзор деятельности Исторического общества за двадцатипятилетие, 1889-1914 гг. // Ист. обозрение, 1915
Кононова Н. Н. Историческое общество при Петербургском университете: (Крат. ист. очерк) // Очерки по истории Ленинградского университета. Л., 1968 Revolution of 1905-07