Nil Popov
Russia · On the map · Writers · Lived 1833 to 1891 · aged 58
Nil Alexandrovich Popov was a Russian historian, slavist, philologist and archivist, a major authority on the history of West Slavs.
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A professor at Moscow University, and a corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Popov published numerous acclaimed works on the history of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Poland. His doctorate study, "Russia and Serbia. 1806-1856" earned him the Uvarov Prize. In 1864 Popov became the head of the Moscow Slavic Committee. He was also the head of the Archive Committee of the Ministry of Justice and the chairman of the ethnography department at the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography. Professor Vasily Klyuchevsky described Popov as "one of the last major figures from the Golden age of Moscow University."
