Nikolay Kostomarov

Nikolay Kostomarov

Nikolay Ivanovich Kostomarov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Костома́ров, Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov; Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Костомаров, Mykóla Ivánovych Kostomárov, May 16, 1817, vil. Yurasovka, Voronezh Guberniya, Russia – April 19, 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russia), of mixed Russian and Ukrainian origin, is one of the most distinguished Russian and Ukrainian historians, a Professor of History at the Kiev University and later at the St. Petersburg University, an author of many books, including his famous biography of the seventeenth century Ukrainian Cossack Hetman, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and his fundamental 3-volume Russian History in Biographies of its main figures (Russkaya istoriya v zhizneopisaniyakh yeyo glavneyshikh deyateley).