Nikolay Mikhaylovich Iyezuitov (russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Иезуи́тов, – 1941) was a

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historian and critic who contributed to the foundation of

cinema studies Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for und ...

in the Soviet Union.Иезуитов Николай Михайлович

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Biography

Nikolay Iyezuitov was born in the town of Alexandrov in the

Vladimir Governorate {{Commons cat, Governorates of the Russian Empire Subdivisions of the Russian Empire Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It ...

(now in

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) in 1899. He graduated from

Moscow University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

and joined the Society of Marxist Historians in 1924. Iyezuitov taught

historical materialism Historical materialism is the term used to describe Karl Marx's theory of history. Marx locates historical change in the rise of class societies and the way humans labor together to make their livelihoods. For Marx and his lifetime collaborat ...

and

dialectical materialism Dialectical materialism is a philosophy of science, history, and nature developed in Europe and based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxist dialectics, as a materialist philosophy, emphasizes the importance of real-world con ...

at secondary schools and colleges in

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in the 1920s and worked at the

Communist Academy The Communist Academy (Russian: Коммунистическая академия, transliterated ''Kommunisticheskaya akademiya'') was a higher educational establishment and research institute based in Moscow. It included scientific institutes of ...

in 1930-1932. He came to

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

to teach at the State Academy of Art Studies in 1932, but returned

to head the history department at the

All-Union State Institute of Cinematography The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinemat ...

(VGIK) in 1936, where he was made a full professor in 1939. Professor Iyezuitov volunteered to serve in a people's militia after the

German invasion of the Soviet Union Operation Barbarossa (german: link=no, Unternehmen Barbarossa; ) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. The operation, code-named after ...

and died at the front in 1941.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iyezuitov, Nikolay 1899 births 1941 deaths People from Alexandrovsky District, Vladimir Oblast People from Alexandrovsky Uyezd (Vladimir Governorate) Film historians Moscow State University alumni 20th-century Russian historians Soviet historians Soviet military personnel killed in World War II Soviet male writers 20th-century male writers Film theorists Russian Marxist historians Soviet Marxist historians 20th-century non-fiction writers Male non-fiction writers