Nikolai Yakovlevich Aristov ( December 1 [13], 1834 , p. Stenshino , Tambov province - August 26 [ September 7 ], 1882 , Nizhyn ) - Russian historian and publicist , professor. He shared the populist and educational views of A.P. Shchapov . A soil worker , he considered the nobility, bureaucracy, and Narodnik intelligentsia to be negative forces in history. A number of works are devoted to Russian folk art.
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| Date of Birth | December 1 (13), 1834 |
| Place of Birth | with. Stenshino , Lipetsk Uyezd , Tambov Province |
| Date of death | August 26 ( September 7 ) 1882 (47 years old) |
| Place of death | Nizhyn , Chernihiv province |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Scientific field | story |
| Place of work | Kazan University University of Warsaw Kharkov University |
| Alma mater | Kazan Theological Academy |
| Academic degree | Doctor of History (1871) |
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Biography
The son of a village priest in the Tambov province. In 1854 he graduated from the Tambov Theological Seminary . He received his higher education at the Kazan Theological Academy (1858), where under the influence of the Russian historian A. Schapov his interest in historical science was formed. In 1858-1861 taught at the Simbirsk seminary . Since 1861, leaving his clergy, he lived in St. Petersburg . He defended his master's thesis "Industry of Ancient Russia" ( St. Petersburg , 1866).
He taught Russian history at Kazan (1867–1869), Warsaw (1869–1873; professor — from May 29, 1871) and Kharkov (1873–1875) universities, and at the Nizhyn Institute of History and Philology (1875–1882).
One of the first turned to the study of the economic history of the times of Kievan Rus (master's thesis, 1866 ), popular movements (doctoral thesis, 1871 ). He was also engaged in the study of ancient Russian chronicles, in particular, the church-historical aspects of their content. He studied the development of Russian historical science, folk life and folklore. He devoted his fundamental work to the historical significance to the work of Nikolai Gogol , took part in the work of the Archaeographic Commission and the Ethnographic Department of the Russian Geographical Society, a delegate to several archaeological congresses, and a member of the Moscow Archaeological Society (since 1869 ).
He collaborated in many periodicals, especially intensively in the magazines The Library for Reading ( 1862 - 1864 ), Domestic Notes ( 1866 - 1867 ), Philological Notes ( 1875 ), Ancient and New Russia ( 1875 - 1878 ) , “ Historical Bulletin ” ( 1880 - 1883 ).
Proceedings of N. Ya. Aristov
- A look of ancient Russian chroniclers on world events ("The Orthodox Interlocutor", 1859);
- Industry of Ancient Russia (St. Petersburg, 1866);
- A reader on Russian history for the study of ancient Russian life, writing and literature until the sixteenth century (Warsaw, 1870);
- Moscow unrest in the reign of Princess Sophia Alekseevna (Warsaw, 1871);
- On the historical significance of Russian bandit songs (Voronezh, 1875);
- About the land of Polovtsy (Kiev, 1877);
- The state of education of Russia in the reign of Alexander I (Kiev, 1879);
- A.P. Schapov, his life and works (St. Petersburg, 1882);
- Works of N.V. Gogol on the part of Russian science (St. Petersburg, 1883).
- The first times of Christianity in Russia according to the church-historical content of Russian chronicles (St. Petersburg, 1888);
- Stories from Russian history (M., 1895);
- The historical significance of the works of Gogol. // Historical Bulletin . Historical and literary magazine. SPb. Typography of A. S. Suvorin. 1883.V. 13.P. 489-527.
Literature
- Gumerov Sh. A. Aristov // Russian writers. 1800-1917: Biographical Dictionary. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1989. - T. 1: A — G. - S. 104.
- Tsamutali A.N. N. Ya. Aristov // Questions of historiography and source study of the history of the USSR. - M .; L., 1963.
- Aristov Nikolai Yakovlevich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.