Education
He graduated from the Leningrad University in 1941 and joined the staff of the Institute of History of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1948.
He graduated from the Leningrad University in 1941 and joined the staff of the Institute of History of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1948.
He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor. In his 1958 monograph The Genesis of Lithuania he argued that it was the pressure of Teutonic invasions that forced the disparate Lithuanian tribes to forge a unified state known as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Pashuto is credited as consultant on several films about medieval Russia, including Tarkovsky"s masterpiece Andrei Rublev (1966).
His approach was further developed by a team of prominent disciples such as Alexander Nazarenko.
Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics]
He was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in 1976.