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Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin | |
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Born | Kudryoshki, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russia | May 26, 1829
Died | January 14, 1897 Saint Petersburg, Russia | (aged 67)
Education | Academician |
Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University (1851) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History |
Institutions | Saint Petersburg Imperial University |
Konstantin Nikolayevich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (Russian: Константин Николаевич Бестужев-Рюмин; 26 May [O.S. 14 May ] 1829 – 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1897) was a Russian historian.
He was the head of the School of Historiography at the University of St. Petersburg (1864–85) and was elected into the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1890. In 1878, he founded and gave his name to the Bestuzhev Courses, "the largest and most prominent women's higher education institution in Russia".[1]