page_title: List of Russian historians
section_title: R
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian historians / Alphabetical list / R
caption_attribution_description: English: Tatiana Proskouriakoff, when she worked for the Carnegie Institute of Washington, producing her famous reconstruction drawings
context_page_description: This list of Russian historians includes the famous historians, as well as archaeologists, paleographers, genealogists and other representatives of auxiliary historical disciplines from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.
context_section_description: Semyon Remezov, cartographer and the first historian of Siberia, author of the Remezov Chronicle
  Mikhail Rostovtsev, archeologist and economist, the first to thoroughly examine the social and economic systems of the Ancient World, excavated Dura-Europos
  Nicholas Roerich, painter, archeologist, and public figure, explorer of Central Asia, initiator of the international Roerich’s Pact on protection of historical monuments
  Sergei Rudenko, discoverer of Scythian Pazyryk burials
  Boris Rybakov, historian and chief Soviet archaeologist for 40 years, primary opponent of the Normanist theory
caption: Proskuryakova
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