 | Myakotin Venedikt Alexandrovich (1867-1937). Historian, writer. After graduating from Saint Petersburg University, he stayed at the University to prepare for professorship. From 1891 he taught Russian history at the Alexander Lyceum. Maykotin published many works, the first of them being "The Peasant Issue in Po-land in the Epoch of Its Partition" (1889). From 1893 he collaborated with the magazine “Russkoye Bo-gatstvo” ("Russian Wealth"). In 1904 he joined its editorial board. He also compiled biographies of Arch-priest Avvakum and A. Mitskevich for F. F. Pavlenkov "Biography Library”. Myakotin was co- author of the articles in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. |
From 1901 he was engaged in political activities. In 1911 he was sentenced to one year in prison for the brochure "Should One Go to the State Duma?" In May 1917 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the All-Russian Council of the Constitutional Democratic Party. He did not accept the October Revolution. From April 10, 1918, Myakotin was a member of the editorial board of the newspaper "Narodnoye Slovo" (“People’s Word”) in Petrograd. In the article "At the Bottom of the Abyss" he opposed the conditions of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and pinned his hopes on the Allies interference. In late 1920 he was arrested in the case of the “Tactical Centre” and was released in early April 1921. In 1922 he left the Soviet Russia. He was engaged in scientific and pedagogical activities as well as in the emigrant press. | |
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Myakotin V. A. From the History of the Russian Society. SPb., 1906. | |
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Myakotin V. A. Lectures on Russian History. SPb., 1892. |