Matvey Kuzmich Lyubavsky (Russian: Матве́й Кузьми́ч Люба́вский; 13 August O.S. 1 August">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 1 August 1860, Ryazan Governorate – 22 November 1936, Ufa) was a Russian and Soviet historian, professor, academic and List of rectors of Moscow State University, rector of the Moscow State University, Moscow University from 1911 to 1917.

Biography

Lyubavsky was born in to the family of a village deacon. He lost his left eye in an accident during childhood. Lyubavsky graduated from the faculty of History of the

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in 1882 and received his doctorate in 1901 and became a professor at the Moscow University. After the removal of Alexander Manuilov as rector of the Imperial Moscow University in 1911 for political reasons, Lyubavsky was elected as his successor. He opposed the politicization of the educational process, for the preservation of university autonomy, sought to preserve university traditions and a high level of teaching after the departure of many talented scientists. In 1913 he was elected chairman of the Society for Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University. Lyubavsky accepted the

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and the return of his former colleagues to the university, however he did recognize the

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like most of the Russian intellectuals of the period. After the October Revolution, he began to cooperate with the authorities in the name of saving the country's historical and cultural heritage, its archives. In 1918 he was the head of the Moscow branch of the Moscow Regional Department of Archival Affairs (Glavarkhiv) and until 1920 he was a member of the board, deputy chairman of the Glavarkhiv. In 1920 he was an expert-consultant on archival issues of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, participated in the Riga conference on the conclusion of a peace treaty between the RSFSR and Poland. From 1920 to 1929 he was the director of the Moscow branch of the legal section of the Unified State archival fund. He became an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1929 (Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1917). On August 8, 1930, Lyubavsky was arrested in the so-called " Academic Case" and was in pre-trial detention for a year. In February 1931, his son Valerian was arrested and executed in June for "counter-revolutionary activities". On August 8, 1931, the

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Collegium passed a verdict, depriving Lyubavsky of the title of academician and assigning him five years of exile and was exiled to Ufa. While in exile, he actively collaborated with the Institute of National Culture of the

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, where during 1932-1934 he worked on the history of land tenure and class struggle in these lands in the 17th-18th centuries. He was released on November 5, 1935. Lyubavsky died in Ufa shortly after the expiration of his term of exile, on November 22, 1936 . He was buried at the Sergievsky cemetery in Ufa. He was rehabilitated in 1967.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lyubavsky, Matvei 1860 births 1933 deaths Rectors of Moscow State University Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 2nd class 19th-century historians from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian historians Soviet historians Academic staff of Moscow State University Soviet rehabilitations