Background
Osipov, Nikolai was born in 1889 in Riga.
Osipov, Nikolai was born in 1889 in Riga.
Graduated from Petersburg University, 1912.
Active in the cooperative movement before and immediately after the Revolution 1917 (Moscow, Khar’kov, Kuban’). Later, taught at different universities. Moved to Germany, 1944.
After World War II, in DP camps in West Germany, active in the Russian emigre press. Wrote on Russian history, philosophy and literature. Because of his erudition the other camp inmates gave him the nick-name ‘ded-vseved’ (the grandfather who knows everything).