Dmitry Ilovaysky

Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaysky (; February 11/23, 1832,

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- February 15, 1920) was an anti-Normanist conservative

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n historian who penned a number of standard history textbooks. Ilovaysky graduated from the

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in 1854 and first attracted critical attention with his thesis on the

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in 1858. He was wounded during the

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, in which he took an active part. In the 1870s, Ilovaysky started publishing his extensive overview of Russian history. In his later writings, he expounded a controversial hypothesis of Azov Rus, which was alleged to have been centered on

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and

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. Ilovaysky was the father-in-law of

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, who founded the

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ilovaysky, Dmitry 1832 births 1920 deaths People from Chaplygin People from Ranenburgsky Uyezd Members of the Russian Assembly Members of the Union of the Russian People Historians of Russia Historians from the Russian Empire Journalists from the Russian Empire Russian male journalists Male writers from the Russian Empire Moscow State University alumni