Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin: biography and photos

Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin is a well-known Russian scientist. Specializes in history and archeology. He has the title of Doctor of Historical Sciences. Teaches at the Department of Russian History during the Middle Ages and early modern times at the Historical Archives Institute of the Russian State Humanitarian University.

Biography of the scientist

Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin was born in Moscow, in the city of Pushkino, in 1950. He received his secondary education at school number 1 in the same small town with a population of only 100 thousand people.

Even at school I was fascinated by history and especially by archeology. At age 12 he became a member of the Young Archeology Club, which operates in Moscow under the capital's museum of history and reconstruction, created at the very end of the 19th century.

School Petrukhin Vladimir Yakovlevich finishes with a silver medal. A child's hobby determined his future profession. For higher education, he goes to the Faculty of History of Moscow State University.

After university

Moscow State University Petrukhin Vladimir Yakovlevich graduated in 1972. He received a major in history with a knowledge of a foreign language and the right to teach at school. But the young man had other plans.

He works as a graduate student at the Department of Archeology of Moscow State University. By that time, the ancient artifacts of medieval Russia are of interest to him more and more. раненных учебников по археологии, которые использовались во всех вузах страны. At the department he works under the guidance of Professor Daniil Avtusin, author of the most widely distributed textbooks on archeology, which were used in all universities of the country.

At Avdusin Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin defends his Ph.D. thesis. The theme of his research is funerary rites in pagan Scandinavia. He receives the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences.

Works on archeology

In 1975, Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin headed the editorial board of archeology and ethnography at the publishing house Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya, which dealt with both the release of the famous "Great Soviet Encyclopedia" and the preparation of branch and thematic dictionaries and encyclopedias. Petrukhin oversees work related to the history of ancient and medieval Russia and Scandinavia.

In 1991, she became a professor at the Dubna Higher Humanitarian School, which at that time was known as the "Jewish University in Moscow." Semen Dubnov, whose name is an educational institution, is one of the founders of the history of the Jewish people. Petrukhin Vladimir Yakovlevich paid much attention to the study of this people. Jewish history is one of the spheres of his interests.

At the same time, he comes to work at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Works in it until now.

Ph.D

In 1994, Petrukhin received the title of Doctor of Historical Sciences. Thesis he defends at the Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The theme of his research is the problems of the ethnocultural history of the Slavic peoples in Russia in the 9th-11th centuries.

In parallel, he becomes a member of the academic council of the center of scientific workers and teachers of Judaica "Sefer". It is an organization created specifically to conduct research in the field of Jewish studies, as well as to teach all sorts of Jewish disciplines in higher educational institutions. Actively promotes such items and Vladimir Petrukhin. The nationality of the scientist largely determines his interests and work.

Since 1997, Petrukhin also teaches at the Department of Russian History at the Historical Archives Institute of the RSUH. In 2004, he was evaluated by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. He is awarded the scientific degree of a professor of the history of the Ancient World and Middle Ages.

Awards and Prizes

For his scientific career Petrukhin has repeatedly received various awards and prizes. So, in 1996 he received a diploma from the Open Society Foundation. It is an interstate public charitable organization founded by philanthropist George Soros. Merits Petrukhin were evaluated in the contest "New books on social and humanities for schools." One of his main works at that time was the monograph "The Beginning of the Ethno-Cultural History of Russia of the IX-XI centuries", on the basis of which he defended his doctoral dissertation.

In 2010, Petrukhin received the medal of the Slavic Foundation for the contribution and development of the heritage of the founders of the Slavic script Cyril and Methodius.

In 2015 he became a laureate of the Academician Dmitry Likhachev Prize for work on medieval Russia. The period under investigation is the 9th-10th centuries, from the arrival of the Varangians to Rus until the choice of faith.

Scientific activity

Today in the Russian science Petrukhin is one of the largest specialists in archeology and historical anthropology of ancient and medieval Russia. The peoples, which he studies first of all, are Slavs, Khazars and Scandinavians.

Also in the field of his research, the beginning of the ethno-cultural history of Russia and the study of the ethnographic features of the peoples living in Northern and Eastern Europe. These include the Slavs, Jews and Finno-Ugrians.

The main feature of his scientific works is an integrated approach to the problem being covered. Petrukhin Vladimir Yakovlevich, whose books are now studied by all experts in the history and archeology of Ancient Rus, strictly relies in his works on all known and accessible sources.

A striking example of this work is his monograph "The Beginning of the Ethno-Cultural History of Russia in the 9th-11th Centuries", which was published in 1995. In this scientific work he creates a fresh concept of the history of Ancient Rus, whose emphasis is primarily on geopolitical and ethnocultural issues. This approach was not previously used by researchers.

Publications in scientific journals

Petrukhin is a very prolific scholar. He is a member of the editorial board of a dozen scientific and specialized journals, regularly appears on their pages with his articles and research.

You can get acquainted with the works of Petrukhin in the Bulletin of the Hebrew University, Slavic Studies, Live Ancient, the almanac Parallels, The Khazar Almanac.

The scientist is included in the organizational committees of Russian and international conferences on archeology, Russian and Khazar history. He takes part regularly in meetings devoted to the ethnography of the Eastern European peoples.

"Khazar project"

Vladimir Petrukhin is an active participant in most of the largest domestic and international projects in archeology, history and ethnography.

In particular, one of the largest is the Khazar project. Its main goal is to protect and study monuments of Khazar history and culture, to study artifacts left from Jewish history. The project is cultivated in the Higher Humanitarian School and the Russian Jewish Congress.

In the same school the scientist teaches the history of Russia in ancient times and in the Middle Ages, reads a course on introduction to archeology. At the Moscow State University at the Institute of Asian and African countries, he gives a course of lectures "Khazars and the initial history of Jews in Eastern Europe".

At the Russian State Humanitarian University Petrukhin lectures on the initial history of Russia. Also teaches special courses for students on religious antiquities, the history of the ancient Slavs. Annually, under his leadership, field archaeological research is taking place in different parts of Russia, Europe and Asia.

Scientific publications

Vladimir Petrukhin is the author of more than 500 scientific works. They come out in the light, starting from 1973 to the present day. Also his pen belongs to a number of popular science books, which are interesting not only for narrow specialists, but for a wide range of readers.

Among them is the book "Russia in the Middle Ages". Petrukhin Vladimir Yakovlevich released it together with Leonid Belyaev, a well-known Russian archaeologist studying ancient Moscow, medieval Europe and the East. This is a book for a wide range of readers, telling about the history of Russia in the Middle Ages. It covers the era of Ancient Rus from the Xth to the XIII century and the Moscow Rus until the XVII century.

Scandinavian myths

Another popular science book is "Myths of Ancient Scandinavia". Petrukhin Vladimir Yakovlevich released it in 2012 in the publishing house AST.

It describes in popular form a picture of the world that the Scandinavian pagans themselves imagined. It is the same for us in the original sources - "Elder Edda", sagas, myths and the epic of the Scandinavian people.

In his work, Petrukhin focuses on the study and analysis of monuments of ancient art, as well as religious worship, discoveries made by archaeologists in recent decades.

Vladimir Petrukhin carefully studies the culture of the German people in the era of the Great Migration of Nations, as well as Scandinavians in the Viking Age. Then, according to the author, their culture was closely connected with the culture of the Slavs who lived in Russia. That is why great attention is paid in the book to the comparison and comparison of the myths of the Scandinavians and the ancient Slavic peoples. Petrukhin finds in them much in common.

"Slavic antiquities"

One of the main works of Petrukhin is the scientific encyclopedia "Slavic Antiquities: Ethnolinguistic Dictionary". 5 volumes of this work were published from 1995 to 2012. Encyclopedia came out under the general editorship of Doctor of Philology, Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy. Petrukhin was one of the most active authors.

This edition details the theme of Slavic, Slavic culture and mythology.

This dictionary sums up the original result of the study of Slavic culture, language, folklore and mythology in the last century and a half. Initially, it was assumed that this would be an exclusively scientific fiction, but it turned out to be interesting to a wide range of readers.

From this encyclopedia we can learn the peculiarities of the spiritual life of the Slavic peoples. Separate articles are devoted to their ideas about the world order, natural forces and phenomena, the saints of that time, the place in the world of sorcerers, witches and other evil forces.

In all its glory appears the Ancient Rus. Petrukhin Vladimir Yakovlevich pays special attention to rites, holidays, customs and family way, which was adopted in the families of the ancient Slavs.

Petrukhin and Zadornov

The themes that Vladimir Petrukhin raises in his works have recently become extremely popular in Russian society. They are actively discussed not only by scientists, but even by variety artists.

A well-known satirist Mikhail Zadornov has recently paid much attention to Slavic history. Even he calls himself a non-academic researcher of the history of Slavs. At the same time, the scientific community refers to its conclusions skeptically and frivolously.

For example, in 2012, Zadornov released the film "Rurik: The Lost Byel". Professional historians criticized the picture for pseudoscientific and populism. In the film, Zadornov adheres to anti-Norman ideas, many considered it amateurish. Among them was an ardent supporter of the Norman theory - Petrukhin Vladimir Yakovlevich. Zadornov was criticized by him.

The film "Viking"

Adherence to the Norman theory manifested itself when working on the film "Viking" by Andrei Kravchuk. The main historical consultant of the picture is Petrukhin Vladimir Yakovlevich. "Viking" is a film about the history of Russia in the 10th century. Based on the events described in the "Tale of Bygone Years", in particular, the coming to power of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavovich.

The film was released on the screens of Russian cinemas on the eve of the new 2017 year. It became the main cinema event on the long New Year holidays. At the box office, the picture collected more than 1.5 billion rubles. With a budget of one billion 250 million, this can be considered a certain success.

The film was actively advertised in all possible ways. His producers were Konstantin Ernst and Anatoly Maksimov.

In addition to Petrukhin, the creators of the painting were advised by a specialist in Russian anthroponymy and linguist Fedor Uspenskiy, a major Slavic scholar.

In total, about three thousand people were involved in the work on the project. Work began in 2008.

In order to give maximum historical reliability, the shooting took place in the Crimea, in the Taiga reservoir, in the Genoese fortress, in the village of Shkolnoe in the Simferopol district, in Bakhchisaray and at Cape Fiolent in Sevastopol.

For the film, there was even built a special film park in the Red Caves area in the Crimea. According to the idea of the creators, these landscapes corresponded to the events described in the picture.