Aleksandr Nazarenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Aleksandr Nazarenko

Russian historian

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1948

Place of Birth: Panevėžys, Panevėžys County, Lithuania

Profession: linguist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Aleksandr Vasilievich Nazarenko (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ?????????; born 1948 in Panevežys) is a Russian historian who works in the Moscow State University.
He heads the project "Russia and Central Europe in the Middle Ages" in the World History Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Having studied at the university to gain doctorates in philology and history, Nazarenko revived the tenet of 19th-century Russian historiography that it is impossible to research early East Slavic history without detailed knowledge of ancient languages.
Considered a disciple of Vladimir Pashuto, Nazarenko advocates tighter integration of historiography with the auxiliary disciplines of genealogy, numismatics, and sigillography.
This approach allowed him to identify and publish a number of new (mostly foreign) sources on the history of Kievan Rus. Nazarenko's major findings were summarized in a monograph International Relations of Ancient Rus (??????? ???? ?? ????????????? ?????: ????????????????? ??????, ??????????, ????????, ???????????? ????????? IX—XII ?????).
Moskva: Russkii fond sodeistviii?a? obrazovanii?u? i nauke, 2009 ISBN 5-91244-009-5 Upon its publication in 2009, the book won Nazarenko the Macarius Award of the Russian Orthodox Church.