Mikhail Nikolayevich Tikhomirov (; 31 May 1893 — 2 September 1965) was a leading

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specialist in medieval Russian

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. Tikhomirov was born and spent his whole life in

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, where he was in charge of the Archaeographic Commission of the

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(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 ''

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'' 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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