Background
GRATSIANSKIY, Nikolay was born in October 1886.
GRATSIANSKIY, Nikolay was born in October 1886.
1910 graduate History and Philology Faculty, Kazan’ University.
1914-1921 associate professor, then professor, Kazan’ University. From 1922 professor, 2nd Moscow University, 1934-1936 and 1941-1945 professor, Moscow State University. Also head, Chair of Medieval History, Moscow’s Lenin Teachers' Training Institute.
1921-1945 (with brief intervals) also worked for Institute of History, Russian Association of Social Sciences Research Institutes and for Institute of History, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Specialized in socio-economics history of early and classic Middle Ages. Studied agrarian history of late Roman Empire and early Middle Ages, history of Ancient Germans, Western Slavs, et cetera