page_title: List of Russian historians
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hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian historians / Alphabetical list / B
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Михайло Артамонов (студент) Русский: Михаил Артамонов студент
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: Vasily Bartold, turkologist, the "Gibbon of Turkestan", an archaeologist of Samarcand
  Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, 19th-century historian and paleographer, founder of the Bestuzhev Courses for women
  Nikita Bichurin, a founder of Sinology, published many documents on Chinese and Mongolian history, opened the first Chinese-language school in Russia
caption: Artamonov
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