# Sergey Platonov > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sergey_Platonov > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sergey_Platonov.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Platonov > Source revision: 1285854905 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Russian historian (1860-1933) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. (August 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. 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Photo by [Karl Bulla](/source/Karl_Bulla) **Sergey Fyodorovich Platonov** ([Russian](/source/Russian_language): Серге́й Фёдорович Плато́нов) (28 June [16 June [O.S.](/source/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates)], 1860 – 10 January 1933) was a Russian historian who led the official [St Petersburg](/source/St_Petersburg) school of imperial historiography before and after the [Russian Revolution](/source/October_Revolution). ## Life and career Platonov was born in the city of [Chernigov](/source/Chernigov), [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire) and attended a private gymnasium in [St. Petersburg](/source/St._Petersburg) until 1878, when he went to the Department of History and Philology of [St. Petersburg University](/source/St._Petersburg_University) until 1882. He was a student of [Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin](/source/Konstantin_Bestuzhev-Ryumin), who recommended that he be given the opportunity to "prepare to be a professor." Platonov belonged to the "St. Petersburg school" of Russian historiography, which focused on the study and publication of historical sources. He earned his master's degree in 1888 with a thesis on Old Russian Legends and Tales about the Seventeenth-Century Time of Troubles as a Historical Source, receiving the [Uvarov Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uvarov_Award&action=edit&redlink=1) of the Academy of Sciences. Platonov's scholarly career was centered at the [University of St Petersburg](/source/University_of_St_Petersburg), where he was held in highest repute for his detailed studies of the *[Time of Troubles](/source/Time_of_Troubles)* (1923) and [Oprichnina](/source/Oprichnina). His history textbooks, impeccably written and easily readable, enjoyed such popularity that he was asked by the tsar to teach history to his children. In 1909, he was admitted to the [Russian Academy of Sciences](/source/Russian_Academy_of_Sciences). Unlike some of his disciples (such as [Alexander Presnyakov](/source/Alexander_Presnyakov)), Platonov did not change his views after the [Revolution](/source/Russian_Revolution_of_1917) and stood aloof from the mainstream [Marxist](/source/Marxist) historiography, as represented by [Mikhail Pokrovsky](/source/Mikhail_Pokrovsky). Nevertheless, he was permitted to administer the [Archaeographic Commission](/source/Archaeographic_Commission) in 1918-29, the [Pushkin House](/source/Pushkin_House) (i.e., the Russian Literature Institute) in 1925–1929 and the Academy's Library in 1925–1928. On 12 January 1930 Platonov was accused of taking part in [a royalist conspiracy](/source/Industrial_Party_Trial), arrested and exiled to [Samara](/source/Samara%2C_Russia), where he died three years later on January 10, 1933.[1] However, a number of his historical works continued to be reprinted later in the decade, and in 1967 he was formally [rehabilitated](/source/Rehabilitation_(Soviet)). ## Bibliography - *History of Russia* (1925), New York, Macmillan. - *The Time of Troubles: A Historical Study of the Internal Crises and Social Struggle in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Muscovy* (1970), Lawrence, University Press of Kansas. - *Moscow and the West*, (1972), Hattiesburg, Academic International. - *Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia*, (1973) with an introductory essay. Gulf Breeze, Florida, Academic International Press (includes 'S.F. Platonov: Eminence and Obscurity' an introductory essay by John T. Alexander - *Ivan the Terrible*, (1974), Gulf Breeze, Florida, Academic International Press. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Sergey Fyodorovich Platonov | Russian Historian, Biographer & Scholar | Britannica"](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergey-Fyodorovich-Platonov). *www.britannica.com*. Retrieved 2024-03-10. - [St Petersburg Encyclopedia](http://www.encspb.ru/en/article.php?kod=2804013998) accessed 13 July 2008 - [Russian History Encyclopedia: Sergei Fyodorovich Platonov](http://www.answers.com/topic/sergei-fyodorovich-platonov) accessed 17 July 2008 - 'Sergei Fedorovich Platonov (1860 - 1933): A Life for Russia.' by Aleksei Nikolaevich Tsamutali published in *Historiography of Imperial Russia*, ed. Tomas Sanders, (1999) Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe. ## External links - [Works by or about Sergey Platonov](https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Platonov%2C%20Sergey%20Fyodorovich%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Platonov%2C%20Sergey%20F%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Platonov%2C%20S%2E%20F%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Sergey%20Fyodorovich%20Platonov%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Sergey%20F%2E%20Platonov%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22S%2E%20F%2E%20Platonov%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Platonov%2C%20Sergey%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Sergey%20Platonov%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Sergey%20Fyodorovich%20Platonov%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Sergey%20F%2E%20Platonov%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22S%2E%20F%2E%20Platonov%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22S%2E%20Fyodorovich%20Platonov%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Platonov%2C%20Sergey%20Fyodorovich%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Platonov%2C%20Sergey%20F%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Platonov%2C%20S%2E%20F%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Platonov%2C%20S%2E%20Fyodorovich%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Sergey%20Platonov%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Platonov%2C%20Sergey%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Sergey%20Fyodorovich%20Platonov%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Sergey%20F%2E%20Platonov%22%20OR%20title%3A%22S%2E%20F%2E%20Platonov%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Sergey%20Platonov%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Sergey%20Fyodorovich%20Platonov%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Sergey%20F%2E%20Platonov%22%20OR%20description%3A%22S%2E%20F%2E%20Platonov%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Platonov%2C%20Sergey%20Fyodorovich%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Platonov%2C%20Sergey%20F%2E%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Sergey%20Platonov%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Platonov%2C%20Sergey%22%29%20OR%20%28%221860-1933%22%20AND%20Platonov%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29) at the [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND FAST WorldCat National United States France BnF data Italy Czech Republic Spain Netherlands Latvia Greece Poland Vatican Israel People Trove Deutsche Biographie DDB Other IdRef Open Library Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Sergey Platonov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Platonov) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Platonov?action=history)). 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