Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov (russian: Андрей Николаевич Сахаров; 2 June 1930, – 26 June 2019) was an anti-Normanist

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n historian.

Career

Sakharov was born in

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. In 1993, he was appointed Director of the Russian History Institute, affiliated with the Academy of Sciences. He initiated a campaign to purge the institute of his

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opponents. It came under much criticism, forcing Sakharov into retirement in 2010. Sakharov was an active member of the

Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests The Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests (russian: комиссия при президенте Российской Федерации по противод ...

that existed between 2009 and 2012.

Works

His major monographs include ''The Diplomacy of Ancient Rus'' (1980) and its sequel, ''The Diplomacy of Svyatoslav'' (1982). For his studies of early medieval diplomacy Sakharov was elected a corresponding member of the

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(1991).

References

External links

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20th-century Russian historians Soviet historians Moscow State University alumni Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1930 births 2019 deaths Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class Russian medievalists Soviet medievalists {{Russia-historian-stub