Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin
Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin | |
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Portrait by Yekaterina Zarudnaya-Cavos, 1889 | |
| Born | May 26, 1829 Kudryoshki, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russia |
| Died | January 14, 1897 (aged 67) Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Education | Academician |
| Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University (1851) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History |
| Institutions | Saint Petersburg Imperial University |
Konstantin Nikolayevich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (Russian: Константин Николаевич Бестужев-Рюмин; 26 May [O.S. 14 May ] 1829 – 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1897) was a Russian historian.
He was the head of the School of Historiography at the University of St. Petersburg (1864–85) and was elected into the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1890. In 1878, he founded and gave his name to the Bestuzhev Courses, "the largest and most prominent women's higher education institution in Russia".