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Vasily Bilbasov

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Vasily Bilbasov
Born
Vasily Alexeyevich Bilbasov
Василий Алексеевич Бильбасов

(1838-06-19)19 June 1838
Died24 July 1904(1904-07-24) (aged 66)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Alma materImperial Moscow University (1861)
Occupation(s)historian, writer, editor

Vasily Alexeyevich Bilbasov (Russian: Василий Алексеевич Бильбасов; 19 June 1838, in Poltava, Ukraine, then Russian Empire – 24 July 1904, in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian Empire historian, editor and publicist, the greatest authority on the rule of Catherine the Great of his time. His magnum opus, the fundamental History of Catherine the Second, published in 1890, and revealing aspects of the great Russian ruler's life that had been hitherto unknown, caused furore; the second volume of it in 1891 was banned. By 1896, two more volumes of the treatise came out, but it remained unfinished.[1]

In 1871-1883 Bilbasov was the editor-in-chief of Golos, the influential liberal newspaper in Saint Petersburg.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Vasily Bilbasov. Biography at the Russian Biographical Dictionary, 2000
  2. ^ "Бильбасов, Василий Алексеевич". Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary: In 86 Volumes (82 Volumes and 4 Additional Volumes) (in Russian). St. Petersburg: F. A. Brockhaus. 1890–1907.