Mikhail Ivanovich Semevsky (

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: Михаил Иванович Семевский; 1837–92) was a Russian Imperial amateur

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who focused on the era of palace revolutions and the history of the 18th-century Russia. Of noble birth, Semevsky received a military education in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and did not retire from civil service until 1882. He assembled the

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of no less than 850 individuals, many written on his own request.Biography
in the Russian Dictionary of Humanities Semevsky published them through Herzen's Free Russian Press in

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before establishing the ''

Russkaya Starina ''Russkaya Starina'' ( rus, Русская старина, p=ˈruskəjə stərʲɪˈna; ''Russian Antiquity'') was a Russian history journal published monthly in St. Petersburg by amateur historian Mikhail Semevsky and his successors between 18 ...

'' monthly in 1870. His younger brother, Vasily Semevsky (1849-1916), was a historian of

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bend. The ''Russkaya Starina'' was published under Vasily's auspices until 1877, although the printing press was effectively run by Mikhail until his death in 1892.

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Biography

* Тимощук В. В. ''М. И. Семевский, основатель и редактор исторического журнала «Русская старина». Его жизнь и деятельность. 1837—1892''. Saint Petersburg, 1895. {{DEFAULTSORT:Semevsky 19th-century historians from the Russian Empire Russian publishers (people) 1837 births 1892 deaths