Background
Boris Knyazhinsky was born on March 7, 1892 in Usman, Tambov Governorate (now Usman, Voronezh, Russian Federation). He was the priest's son.
educator regional ethnographer
Boris Knyazhinsky was born on March 7, 1892 in Usman, Tambov Governorate (now Usman, Voronezh, Russian Federation). He was the priest's son.
He graduated from Voronezh gymnasium №1 (1911) and the Faculty of Medicine of Moscow University (1917). In the gymnasium, Boris was an editor of "Zhurnal uchashchihsya" (1910-1911), in which he published an article on the history of the village of Semiluki in Voronezh District.
Boris Petrovich participated in the work of governorate museum (1908-1911), the preparation of the exhibition dedicated to N.I. Kostomarov (1911). He published a historical essay about the city of Demshinsk (which existed in the 17th-18th centuries) in the Memorial Book of Voronezh Governorate in 1913; in the 14th edition of "Voronezhskaya stanina" - about Uspensky monastery in the town of Usman.
Boris was a military doctor at the Caucasian front (1917-1918). He was a doctor at Usman district hospital (1918-1919), district sanitary doctor (1919-1927).
He was a head and the editor of the bulletin of District Society for the study of the native land. He participated in All-Russian regional studies congresses, governorate regional studies conferences in Voronezh. He was published in "Izvestiya Voronezhskogo kraevedcheskogo obshchestva" (1925).
Boris Petrovich was a head of Health Education Department of Uzbek SSR People’s Commissariat of Public Health (Samarkand, 1927-1930), head of House of Health Education of Samarkand region (1930-1942); lecturer of the history of medicine and hygiene of Uzbek Medical Institute (Tashkent, since 1931) and the Samarkand Medical Institute (1939-1942). He was a military doctor in various treatment facilities of Tashkent Military District (1942-1955). He was a researcher of the Scientific-Research Institute of Sanitary, Hygiene and Occupational Diseases of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1955-1965).
He lived in Moscow since 1966. He published articles on the history of the region in Usman local newspaper. Knyazhinsky transferred his archive to the Usman Museum of Local Lore.