Background
Grigori Andreevich Iliyinsky was born on March 11, 1876 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
historian philologist teacher archeographer
Grigori Andreevich Iliyinsky was born on March 11, 1876 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Grigori Andreevich was the author of more than 500 works on various issues of Slavic studies, including the monograph "Proto-Slavic Grammar" (Nezhin, 1916), a series of articles and notes "Slavic Etymologies" (1908-1933), the book "The Experience of Systematic Cyrill-Methodius Bibliography" (Sofia, 1934 ).
Ilyinsky headed the Voronezh State University Department of Slavic Philology. Unjustifiably repressed (January 1934), sentenced to 10 years in forced labor camps, replaced by a 3-year exile in Western Siberia. From 1936 he lived in Tomsk, where he was arrested again (November 1937) and killed.