Shubinsky, Sergey Nikolayevich (Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary)

Sergey Nikolayevich Shubinsky (russian: Сергей Николаевич Шубинский; 1834–1913) was a Russian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and

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who edited two widely read magazines concerned with the history of

Imperial Russia The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended th ...

.Глинский Б. Б. Сергей Николаевич Шубинский. (1834—1913 гг.). Биографический очерк. — СПб.: Тип. А. С. Суворина, 1913.. Shubinsky had a successful military career from 1854 onward, retiring with the rank of

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in 1887. He developed a keen interest in the comparatively recent history of his country while collecting hitherto unpublished anecdotes about

Prince Potemkin Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (, also , ;, rus, Князь Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Потёмкин-Таври́ческий, Knjaz' Grigórij Aleksándrovich Potjómkin-Tavrícheskij, ɡrʲɪˈɡ ...

. Shubinsky edited an illustrated monthly periodical, '' Old and New Russia'', in 1875-79, before setting up a more widely distributed magazine, '' The Historical Herald'', in 1880. He remained in charge of the periodical until his death in 1913. The publisher was

Aleksey Suvorin Aleksei Sergeyevich Suvorin (Russian: Алексей Сергеевич Суворин, 11 September 1834, Korshevo, Voronezh Governorate – 11 August 1912, Tsarskoye Selo) was a Russian newspaper and book publisher and journalist whose publ ...

. Shubinsky also authored a splattering of historical articles for the

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. Shubinsky's main rivals in the realm of Russian historical journalism were

Pyotr Bartenev Pyotr Ivanovich Bartenev (Пётр Ива́нович Барте́нев; 13 October 1829 – 4 November 1912) was a Russian historian and collector of unpublished memoirs. Of noble birth, Bartenev attended the Moscow University. In 1856, he under ...

, the editor of ''

The Russian Archive ''Russky Arkhiv'' (russian: Русский архив/Русскій Архивъ, Russian Archives) was a Russian historical and literary monthly (in 1880–1884, a fortnightly) magazine, published in Moscow in 1863–1917. Conceived originally ...

'', and

Mikhail Semevsky Mikhail Ivanovich Semevsky (Russian: Михаил Иванович Семевский; 1837–92) was a Russian Imperial amateur historian who focused on the era of palace revolutions and the history of the 18th-century Russia. Of noble birth, S ...

with his own periodical, '' Old Times in Russia''.

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