Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin

Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin
Portrait by Yekaterina Zarudnaya-Cavos, 1889
Born(1829-05-26)May 26, 1829
DiedJanuary 14, 1897(1897-01-14) (aged 67)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
EducationAcademician
Alma materImperial Moscow University (1851)
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsSaint 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]

  1. ^ Quoted from: Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild. Equality and Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8229-6066-9. Page 56.

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