Aleksandr Vasilievich Nazarenko is a Russian historian who works in the Moscow State University.
Education
Having studied at the university to gain doctorates in philology and history, Nazarenko revived the tenet of 19th-century Russian historiography that it is impossible to research early East Slavic history without detailed knowledge of ancient languages.
Career
He heads the project "Russia and Central Europe in the Middle Ages" in the World History Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Considered a disciple of Vladimir Pashuto, Nazarenko advocates tighter integration of historiography with the auxiliary disciplines of genealogy, numismatics, and sigillography. This approach allowed him to identify and publish a number of new (mostly foreign) sources on the history of Kievan Rus.
Nazarenko"s major findings were summarized in a monograph International Relations of Ancient Rus (Древняя Русь на международных путях: Междисциплинарные очерки, культурных, торговых, политических отношений IX—XII веков).