Education
Saint St. Petersburg State University.
anthropologist historian university professor
Saint St. Petersburg State University.
Bartold was the first to publish obscure information from the early Arab historians on Kievan Rus". In 1913, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences. In February 1917 he was appointed to the Commission for the Study of the Tribal Composition of the Population of the Borderlands of Russia.
After the Russian Revolution, Bartold was appointed director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, a post he held from 1918 to 1921.
Most of his writings were translated in English, Arabic, and Persian. Bartold"s collected works were reprinted in 9 volumes between 1963 and 1977, and whilst Soviet editors added footnotes deploring his "bourgeois" attitudes, his prestige was such that the text was left uncensored, despite not conforming to a Marxist interpretation of history.
Some of his works have been reprinted more recently in Moscow. "A Short History of Turkestan" (1920).
An Historical Geography of Iran (Princeton: Princeton University Press) 1984 (translated by Svat Soucek.
Edited by Civil Engineering Bosworth).
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Russian Academy of Sciences.