Background
ZIMIN, Aleksandr was born on February 22, 1920.
ZIMIN, Aleksandr was born on February 22, 1920.
University of Central Asia, then senior research associate Institute of History, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy, of Sciences.
His area of expertise was late medieval Muscovy. In the 1950s, Zimin edited the official historical series dedicated to the history of Moscow. Yet at least seven of his monographs were not published during his lifetime.
His 1964 essay attempted to prove that The Song of Igor"s Campaign was fabricated in the 1770s.
lieutenant met skepticism and hostility from the academic community and was eventually banned from print. Another important work, Warrior at the Crossroads, was not published until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
lieutenant described the Muscovite Civil War of the 1430s as a vital clash between the autocratic, pro-Tatar Muscovite administration and the proto-capitalist forces clustered around the northern Principality of Galich with its salt production facilities. Zimin"s mother descended from Field Marshal Kamensky.
He was involved in researching her family"s history.
At the time of Zimin"s death in 1980, his unpublished manuscripts reportedly "totaled many thousands of typed pages".