Ivanov, Ivan Ivanovich (historian)

He was born on September 22 ( October 4 ), 1862 in the city of White Smolensk province in the family of sergeant major.

After home training under the guidance of his mother and graduating in 1882 with a silver medal from the Alexander Gymnasium in Vyazma, he entered the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University , where Professor N. I. Storozhenko influenced him. The university was graduated in 1886 with a candidate’s degree and a gold medal for an essay on a given topic, after which it was left for two years at the university to prepare for a professorship. At the same time, he began teaching at private gymnasiums.

Since June 1893 - privat-docent of the university; taught general history, then the history of European culture of the XVIII - XIX centuries .

He defended his dissertation for a master's degree in history, “The Political Role of the French Theater in Connection with the Philosophy of the 18th Century, ” at the beginning of 1895 . He received the title of Doctor of History for his dissertation " Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism" in 1901 .

Since May 1905 - an extraordinary, and September 1906 - an ordinary professor of the department of general history at the historical and philological faculty of the Imperial Novorossiysk University in Odessa. He also taught at Odessa women's pedagogical courses. At first, his lectures were delightful to students, which awarded the lecturer with applause and completely filled the audience. However, they soon became disillusioned with a lecturer who avoided his own assessments and concrete facts. His conservative views led to this. Throughout his stay in Odessa, he opposed the "left" professors and students. He spoke at the Historical and Philological Society at the Novorossiysk University, and gave public lectures.

From September 1907 until the summer of 1913 he was director of the Nezhinsky Institute of Philology . In August 1913, he was appointed supernumerary ordinary professor at the University of Moscow at the Department of World History; since January 1917 - in the state. In March 1917 he left the university, and in February 1918 he returned, but already as a private assistant professor.

He acted as a theater critic in the press, collaborated in the encyclopedic publications of Brockhaus and Efron and S. Vengerov .

Also in 1883, he became one of the founders of the Russian Gymnastics Society .

He died in Moscow on December 17, 1929 .

As a historian, he paid most attention to the biographical genre: the author of essays on N. V. Gogol , I. S. Turgenev , A. F. Pisemsky , Peter I , Alexander II, and others. He criticized left-wing publicists and writers. Most of his works are eclectic and popularizing. Traditionally, for most of the then historians of literature, they preferred the historical and cultural method, trying to connect literary phenomena and sociology.

Selected Publications

• The political role of the French theater in connection with the philosophy of the XVIII century. - M., 1895.
• Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. Life, personality, creativity . SPb., 1896.
• Shakespeare. - St. Petersburg, 1896.
• Pisemsky. - SPb., 1898.
• Saint-Simon and Sensimonism. - M., 1901.
• Knight of word and life (Cervantes and his Don Quixote). - 2nd ed. - M., 1911.
• W. Shakespeare: A Biographical Sketch. - M., [1904].
• F. Schiller: Biographical sketch. - M., 1905.

• Vengerov S. A. Sources of the Dictionary of Russian Writers and Scientists. - SPb., 1910. - T. 2. - S. 464.
• Encyclopedic Dictionary Pomegranate : In 58 vol. - M., 1910-1948. - T. 21. - S. 394-395.
• Grabtsova I.S. Ivanov I.I. // PONU. - Odessa, 2005. - T. 2. - S. 479-480.
• Ivanov, Ivan Ivanovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Ivanov, Ivan Ivanovich // Brief Literary Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. A.A. Surkov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1962-1978.
• Volkov V.A. , Kulikova M.V., Loginov V.S. Moscow professors of the 18th - early 20th centuries. Humanities and social sciences. - M .: Janus-K: Moscow textbooks and cartolithography, 2006. - P. 105-106. - 300 s. - 2000 copies. - ISBN 5-8037-0164-5 .

• Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich (neopr.) . Chronicle of Moscow University . Date of treatment October 12, 2017.
• Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich (Ukrainian) . Navalny materials online. Date of appeal October 25, 2016.