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[ St. Petersburg Byzantine studies : Pages of history]
St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2006 334 p. [16 ill.] Serie: Vizantiiskaia Biblioteka. Issledovaniia Hardcover. 13.5 x 20 cm ISBN: 5893298017 Language: Russian
St. Petersburg was as a certain capital of Byzantine studies in the pre-revolutionary period. This publication scopes the history of the world-famous school of Byzantine studies from its formation in the 19th century until the revolution of 1917 and the tragic fates of its scholars in the post-revolutionary period. Igor Medvedev, a well known Russian Byzantinologist, describes the main achievements and fates of Russian scholars in this field: V. Beneshevich, L. Diakon, I. Grevs, N. Likhachev, M. Psell, V. Vasilevskii, and others. Name index. Also available by the same author: Vizantiiskii Gumanizm XIV-XV vv (1976, 1997).