Boris Mikhailovich Kloss (, ; born 19 December 1932) is 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 species; as well as the ...

, source critic, specialist in

palaeography Palaeography (American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, UK) or paleography (American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, US) (ultimately from , , 'old', and , , 'to write') is the study and academic disciplin ...

and archaeography, a

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, Doctor of History (1989); head of the History of Religion and Church Centre, Honorary Doctor of the European University (2003), member of the International Association of the Old Slavic Studies (1992). He studied under

Andrey Kolmogorov Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov ( rus, Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ kəlmɐˈɡorəf, a=Ru-Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.ogg, 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Soviet ...

, Lev Cherepnin, and Militsa Nechkina. The Nikon Chronicle and other Russian Chronicles of the 16-17 centuries

Kloss was born in Moscow in the family of a military man. He graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of the

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

in 1956. In 1958 he started working for the USSR Institute of Automatics. Since 1971 he worked at the USSR Institute of History under the Russian Academy of Sciences. He completed the

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in the topic ''The

Nikon Chronicle The ''Nikon Chronicle'' () is a compilation of Russian chronicles undertaken at the court of Ivan the Terrible in the mid-16th century. The compilation was named after Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, who owned a copy. In the 18th century, it was publi ...

and the Russian Chronicles of the 16th-17th centuries''. In 1980-1990 he simultaneously taught at the Moscow State University, the

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT; , also known as PhysTech), is a public university, public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It prepares specialists in theoretical physics, theoretical and applied physics, ...

and

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. He became a renowned specialist in

Kievan Rus' Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,. * was the first East Slavs, East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical At ...

literature, specifically in Russian

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. He lectured in various universities of the United States, Poland, Norway, Russia.

Publications

* ''The Nikon Chronicle and the Russian Chronicles of the 16th-17th centuries'' (), 1980 * ''Life of St. Sergius of Radonezh'' (), 1998 * ''On the Russian Hagiography of the 14th-16th centuries'' (), 2001 * ''On the Origin of the name of Russia'' (), 2012 * ''

Chernyshevsky Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky ( – ) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and the N ...

at the Head of Revolutionaries of 1861'' (), 1981 * Editor of the modern edition of the ''

Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles The Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (, abbr. ''PSRL'') is a series of published volumes aimed at collecting all medieval East Slavic chronicles, with various editions published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russian Federat ...

''.

References

1932 births 20th-century Russian historians Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow State University alumni Soviet historians Russian palaeographers Academic staff of Moscow State University Living people {{Russia-historian-stub