Petrovsky, Nikolai Neonovich

Born on November 14, 1894 in the village of Kudrovka, Sosnitskaya volost, Chernihiv province , in the family of a priest.

He studied at the Chernihiv Theological Seminary . At the end of the historical department of the Nizhyn Historical and Philological Institute, Prince Bezborodko successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in 1919 on the subject: “Polish-Cossack wars before Bohdan Khmelnitsky”.

He worked as a teacher in rural schools (1919-1923), lectured on the history of Ukraine in the Nezhinsky INO (1923-1924).

In 1928 received the title of professor. In the same year he was arrested "for nationalist activity."

In 1934-1938 - researcher at the Antiquities Department of the National Library of Ukraine.

From 1937 to 1941 he worked at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR as a researcher, director (1942-1947), head of the department of archeography (1947).

In 1939, Nikolai Petrovsky was awarded the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences .

With the beginning of World War II, together with the Institute of History, he was evacuated to Ufa (1941-1943), and then to Moscow (1943-1944).

Since 1944 - Head of the Department of History of Ukraine, Kiev University . He taught the history of the USSR . He was a consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR . Member of the Ukrainian SSR delegation at UN assemblies in San Francisco (1945), London (1946), as well as at a peace conference in Paris (1946).

He worked in the All-Slav Committee. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (from February 12, 1945).

The author of more than 200 scientific works on the history of Ukraine, Ukrainian historiography of the XVII - XVIII centuries .

He died on July 20, 1951 in Kiev .

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (10/01/1944)
• medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War" (1945)

• To the metro station Nizhina // Notes of the Nizhny INO. - Prince 1. - Nizhin, 1925.
• Prior to the nutrition about the vidostom singing to the samovidtsy Samovidtsya about the author to the writings // There Itself. - Prince 6 .-- 1926.
• Pseudo-iarіush Samіyla Zorki // ЗІФВ ВУАН. - Prince 17. - K., 1928.
• Three Popovich // Itself. - Book 7. - 1927.
• I will arrange Getmanshchiny up to the regimental regiment // Itself. - Prince 9. - 1929.
• To Іstorії Ruїni // Itself. - Book 8. - 1928.
• Narisi of Ukraine XVII - the cob of the XVIII century. - X., 1930.
• Chronology of Ukraine. - VIP. 1. - K., 1938.
• Narisi from Ukraine. - VIP. ІV. - К., 1939.
• The military past of the Ukrainian people. M .: Military Publishing. 1939. 78 p. ^[one]
• Ivan Bogun. - Saratov, 1942.
• Bogdan Khmelnitsky. - Saratov, 1942; M., 1944.
• Maxim Krivonos. K. 1944.16 s.
• Reunification of the Ukrainian people in a single Ukrainian Soviet state. M .: Gospolitizdat. 1944.88 p.
• Bohdan Khmelnytsky. M .: Gospolitizdat, printing house them. Stalin. 1944.51 p.
• The war of liberation of the Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples against the Polish invaders. Bohdan Khmelnytsky. M .: Military Publishing House, printing house named after Tymoshenko. 1946.64 p.
• The liberation war of the Ukrainian people against gentry Poland and the accession of Ukraine to Russia. Essays on the history of Ukraine. Issue 4. K. 1948. 40 p.

• USSR Academy of Sciences. The personal composition. 1918-1993. K .: 1993.S. 242
• Prominent Soviet historians. K .: 1969.P. 156
• Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia. T. 8.K .: 1982.P. 302
• Scientists of the Institute of History of Ukraine. K .: 1998.P. 249
• Prominent scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. K .: 1998.S. 204
• Yusova N.N. N.N. Petrovsky and the Genesis of the Concept of the Old Russian Nationality // Magistra Vitae. - Chelyabinsk: ChelSU , 2005. - T. 1 , No. 2 (18) . - S. 63–70 . - ISSN 2542-0275 .