Vladimir Picheta
Belarusian historian (1878–1947)
Vladimir Ivanovich Picheta (Russian: Владимир Иванович Пичета; Belarusian: Уладзімір Іванавіч Пічэта; 21 October 1878, Poltava – 23 June 1947, Moscow) was a Belarusian and Soviet historian, first rector of the Belarusian State University (July 1921 – October 1929), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR since 1928, Honorary Professor of the BSSR (1926), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union since 1939, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union since 1946.
Biography
Picheta was born in Poltava. His father, Ivan (Jovan) Khristoforovich (1844–1920), a Serb by nationality, a native of the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina (then under the Ottoman Empire), was the rector of the Vitebsk Theological Seminary and then Poltava Theological Seminary. The scientist's mother, Maria Grigorievna Grigorenko, of Ukrainian origin, was the daughter of a Kyiv official of the Treasury Chamber.
Picheta graduated from the Poltava Gymnasium in 1897, and 1901 – from the History and Philology Department of Moscow University. Vasily Klyuchevsky was the scientific supervisor of his diploma (then called candidate) work "Yuri Krizhanich on the Moscow State".
After graduation, he taught at secondary schools in Moscow, and from 1902 he worked in Ukraine (Korostyshev, Yekaterinoslav). In September 1905, Picheta returned to Moscow, where he taught first at secondary educational institutions, and from 1906 at higher educational institutions, giving lectures to workers. In 1909, the young scientist passed his master's exam, and in 1910 he was approved as a privat-docent of Moscow University. In February 1911, together with a group of professors and assistant professors, he left the university in protest against the activities of the Minister of Public Education L.A. Kasso.
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