Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article reviews the monograph by I.E. Barykina ("A typical St. Petersburg official" Count Dmitry Andreevich Tolstoy (1823-1889): The experience of the biography of the minister. M.; St. Petersburg, 2022). Noting the merits of the book by I.E. Barykina, the author of the review dwells on the problematic aspects of D.A. Tolstoy's biography. In particular, his role as an official in charge of the Academy of Sciences and Russian universities is considered, as well as a rare combination of the roles of a dignitary and a scientist in the bureaucratic environment of the hero of the reviewed essay.
Source: Rossiiskaia istoriia
Author: Evgeniy A. Rostovtsev
Language: English
Topic: Soviet and Russian History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4404104255