Tsvetaev Dmitry

Tsvetaev Dmitry (1852‒1920) – archivist, historian of Protestantism in Russia.

He graduated from the St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy, and Pedagogical Courses of the Second St. Petersburg Military Gymnasium. Since 1876, he taught history, Russian language, and Russian literature in secondary schools of military institutions and those of the Ministry of Education – in the cities of Orel and Moscow.

After defending his Master thesis ‘From the History of Foreign Confessions in Russia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’ (Moscow, 1886), he got a position of Ass, Docent of the Moscow University. In 1887, he became Professor of the Chair of Russian History at the University of Warsaw.

In 1890, he defended his Doctor thesis in History ‘Protestantism and Protestants in Russia before the Epoch of Reforms’. In 1897-1900, he was Professor of the Moscow University. Since 1911, he served as Chief Manager of the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice; he participated in the foundation of the Central Archive of Ancient Acts in Moscow. Privy Councilor.

Compositions

Protestantism in Poland and Lithuania in Its Best Period // Chteniya at the Society of Amateurs of Spiritual Enlightenment. 1881, XII. (in Rus.)
The Newly Found Law of Peter the Great on Protestants // Moskovskie vedomosti. 1882, 319. (in Rus.)
Position of Protestants in Russia before Peter the Great // ZhMNP. 1883, IX– X. (in Rus.)
Protestantism in Russia under Princess Sophia // Russkyi vestnik. 1883, X. (in Rus.)
From the History of Matrimonial Affairs in the Tsar’s Family of the Moscow Period // Russkyi vestnik. 1884, VII–VIII. (in Rus.)
History of Building the First Catholic Church in Moscow. Moscow, 1886. (in Rus.)
Confessional Position of Protestant Merchants in Russia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Moscow, 1885. (in Rus.)
Russification of Foreign Protestants in the Moscow State. Moscow, 1886. (in Rus.)
Position of Western Alien Confessions in the Moscow State: Introductory Speech, Made in the Moscow University // Moskovskie vedomosti. 1886, pp. 273-724. (in Rus.)
Literary Struggle against Protestantism in the Moscow State. Moscow, 1887. (in Rus.)
Foreigners in Russia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries // Russkyi vestnik. 1887, XII. (in Rus.)
The First German Schools in Moscow and the Foundation of the Court German-Russian Theatre. Moscow, 1890. (in Rus.)
Monuments for the History of Protestantism in Russia. Part I, Moscow, 1888. (in Rus.)
Protestantism and Protestants in Russia before the Epoch of Reforms. Moscow, 1890. (in Rus.)
Tsar Vasily Shuisky in Poland // Izvestiya of the University of Warsaw. 1894, IV‒V. (in Rus.)
Peter the Great in France // Russkoe obozrenie. 1894. (in Rus.)
Russia and Western Europe in Their Mutual Relations // Russkoe obozrenie 1895, II. (in Rus.)
Tsar Vasily Shuisky and the Place of His Burial in Poland. Vol. II: Suppl. to the Historical research. Warsaw, 1902. (in Rus.)
From the History of Foreign Confessions in Russia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Moscow, 1886.

About him

Tsvetaev Dmitry Vladimirovich // Encyclopedic Lexicon of Brockhaus and Ephrone, in 86 vol. St. Petersburg, 1890-1907. (in Rus.)

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