Pyotr Nikolayevich Petrov (russian: Пётр Николаевич Петров, 1 July 1827,

Saint Petersburg 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 ...

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, – 10 April 1891, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a

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, arts historian and critic,

genealogist Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinsh ...

bibliographer Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...

, an honourable member of the

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and a member of the Russian Archeological Society. Petrov co-edited the

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ, tr. ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume ...

, contributed more than 300 articles on art, history and

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to the Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary edited at the time by professor

Ilya Berezin Ilya Nikolayevich Berezin (russian: Илья́ Никола́евич Бере́зин, 20 July 1818, Yug (settlement), Yug, Permsky Uyezd, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire,— 3 April 1896, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a prominent Russia ...

and authored a host of biographical essays on Russian artists (like

Pavel Fedotov Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov (Russian: Павел Андреевич Федотов; 4 July 1815 - 26 November 1852) was an amateur Russian painter. He was only 37 years old when he died in a mental clinic. He has been compared to William Hogarth. ...

and

Karl Bryullov Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (russian: Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в; 12 December 1799 – 11 June 1852), original name Charles Bruleau, also transliterated Briullov and Briuloff, and referred to by his friends as "Karl the Great", was a ...

, among others) published by ''Illyustratsii'' magazine in 1861—1866. He also edited the Materials for the Hundred Years' History of the Imperial Academy of Arts. He authored the History of the Russian Nobility (1886, in two volumes), as well as the History of Saint Petersburg (1882). For ''

Vsemirnaya Illyustratsia ''Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya'' (russian: Всемирная иллюстрация, ''World Illustrated'') was a Russian weekly magazine founded by German Goppe and published by his own publishing house in Saint Petersburg in 1869–1898.

'' he compiled ''The Album of Russian Fairytales and Bylinas'' (1875), ''The Album for Peter the Great's 200th Jubilee'' (with

Sergey Shubinsky Sergey Nikolayevich Shubinsky (russian: Сергей Николаевич Шубинский; 1834–1913) was a Russian historian and journalist who edited two widely read magazines concerned with the history of Imperial Russia.Глинский Б ...

, 1872), and the biography of

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

(1873). Petrov wrote several historical novels, among them ''Semya Volnodumtsev'' (Семья вольнодумцев, Freethinkers' Family, 1872, with

Viktor Klyushnikov Viktor Petrovich Klyushnikov (russian: Клю́шников Ви́ктор Петро́вич, born 22 March 1841, village Leksianovka, Gzhatsk region, Smolensk Governorate, Imperial Russia, - 19 November 1892, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) w ...

), ''Balakirev'' (Балакирев, 1881) and ''Tsarsky sud'' (Царский суд, The Tsar's Judgement, 1877). He completed the unfinished

Nestor Kukolnik Nestor Vasilievich Kukolnik (russian: Не́стор Васи́льевич Ку́кольник) (1809–1868) was a Russian playwright and prose writer of Carpatho-Rusyn origin. Immensely popular during the early part of his career, his works wer ...

's novel ''Ioann III''.Петров Пётр Николаевич
. At the Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg // Российская национальная библиотека, Санкт-Петербург

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