Education
Moscow State University.
historian scientist university professor
Moscow State University.
Mashkin authored The History of Ancient Rome (1947-1956), which was translated into several languages, and The Principate of Augustus. Its Origin and Social Essence (1949, translated into German, Italian, Hungarian and Romanian languages). Mashkin was born in the village of Sokolki, present Bugulminsky District in Russia.
Having finished a school in Bugulma, he studied at the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Samara University (1921/22) and at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Moscow University.
In 1938 Mashkin received his doctorate. Mashkin extensively studied the history of Roman provinces, particularly Africa.
He also authored several works on circumcellions.