Mikhail Nikolayevich Tikhomirov (russian: Михаи́л Николáевич Тихоми́ров; 31 May 1893 — 2 September 1965) was a leading

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

specialist in medieval Russian

paleography Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...

. Tikhomirov was born and spent his whole life in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, where he was in charge of the Archaeographic Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (to which he was elected a corresponding member in 1946 and full member in 1953). He was responsible for the Soviet edition of the Full Collection of Russian Chronicles and edited collections of many other medieval documents, including the ''

Russkaya Pravda The ''Russkaya Pravda'' (Rus' Justice, Rus' Truth, or Russian Justice; orv, Правда роусьскаꙗ, ''Pravda Rusĭskaya'' (13th century, 1280), Правда Руськая, ''Pravda Rus'kaya'' (second half of the 15th century); russian: ...

'' and '' Sobornoye Ulozhenie''. His major works include ''A Study of Russkaya Pravda'' (1941), ''Old Russian Cities'' (1956, 2nd ed.), ''Medieval Moscow'' (1957), ''Russia in the Sixteenth Century'' (1962), ''Russian Culture from the Tenth to the Eighteenth Century'' (1968), ''The Russian State from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century'' (1973), and ''Ancient Rus'' (1975).

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article on the same subject.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Tikhomirov, Mikhail 1893 births 1965 deaths Writers from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Soviet historians Russian palaeographers Moscow State University alumni Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery