Background
ISTRIN, Vasiliy was born on February 10, 1865 in village Pekhra, Moscow Uyezd.
ISTRIN, Vasiliy was born on February 10, 1865 in village Pekhra, Moscow Uyezd.
Graduate Moscow University. Studied under Professor North. South. Tikhonravov.
1891-1897 associate professor, Moscow University. 1897-1907 professor, Novorossiysk (Odessa) University. 1902-1907 correspondent member, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Did comparative research on religious works in Russian and other Slavonic literatures and their relationship to the Byzantine originals. Published material from the archives of the Turgenev brothers and biographies of V. A. Zhukovskiy and Gogol. Did research on the works of Pushkin.
Helped run Dictionary Commission, Russian Academy of Sciences.
All religions persuade people to rely on outside authority, thus preventing them to become self-reliant.
Strong communist party can create a new and better society with neither rich nor poor.
Member, Russian Academy of Sciences from 1907.