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Vasily Bilbasov

Vasily Bilbasov
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Born Vasily Alexeyevich Bilbasov
Василий Алексеевич Бильбасов

(1838-06-19)June 19, 1838
Poltava, Ukraine, then Russian Empire
Died July 24, 1904(1904-07-24) (aged 66)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Occupation historian, writer, editor

Vasily Alexeyevich Bilbasov (Russian: Василий Алексеевич Бильбасов, 19 June 1838, Poltava, Ukraine, then Russian Empire, — 24 July 1904, Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian historian, editor and publicist, the greatest authority on the rule of Catherine the Great of his time. His magnum opus, the fundamental History of Catherine the Second, published in 1890, and revealing aspects of the great Russian ruler's life that had been hitherto unknown, caused furore, the second volume of it in 1891 was banned. By 1896, two more volumes of the treatise came out, but it remained unfinished.

In 1871-1883 Bilbasov was the editor-in-chief of Golos, the influential liberal newspaper in Saint Petersburg.



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