Nikolai Ivanovich Ulyanov - famous Russian historian and writer, candidate of historical sciences and participant of the Great Patriotic War
early years
Nikolai Ivanovich Ulyanov was born on January 5, 1905 in St. Petersburg. Here the future historian and writer attended school, where he became interested in the humanities.
Education
At the age of 17, Nikolai began his studies at Petrograd University, studied social sciences, 3 years later, in 1925, he transferred to the Faculty of Linguistics and Material Culture. At this time, he was also engaged in creative activities: the young man attended courses on stage skills and even practiced at the Mariinsky Theater.
In 1927, Nikolai Ivanovich successfully graduated from the university, defending his thesis on the influence of foreign capital. On the instructions of his teacher, the outstanding historian S. F. Platonov became a graduate student at the same university.
Historian career and later life
Until 1930, he was trained for scientific activity, studied at the Institute of History, was the secretary of the section of Russian history, and also worked as a secretary in the editorial office of the institute's wall newspaper.
At this time, the young scientist wrote many works on historical topics, compiled archival materials on the history of the Kola Peninsula, and a review of materials on the Razin uprising published in 1930.
After completing his work at the institute, Ulyanov went to Arkhangelsk, where he became a teacher at the Northern regional komvuz, which he was until 1933. At the age of 26 he became a member of the CPSU (b). While in Arkhangelsk, Nikolai Ivanovich wrote a work on the history of the Komi-Zyryan people, for which in 1935 he was awarded the degree of candidate of historical sciences. This work raised two important topics: the fight against Russian chauvinism and the fight against bourgeois nationalism. He talked about the expansion of the Russians into Siberia and the North, equating it with brutal colonization.
Since 1933, the 28-year-old historian was a senior researcher at the Historical and Archaeological Commission in Leningrad, and was also an Associate Professor at the Department of History at the Leningrad Historical and Linguistic Institute. In 1935, Nikolai Ivanovich published the book "The Peasant War in the Moscow State of the 17th Century".
Already at the age of 30, Ulyanov headed the department of the history of the peoples of the USSR. At the same time he worked at the Academy. Tolmacheva.
Arrest
In 1935, Ulyanov again published an article in which he talked about a new political party and wrote about the intensification of the class struggle as socialism took shape in the country. After that, Nikolai Ivanovich was expelled from the membership of the CPSU (b) and dismissed from the institute.
At the beginning of the summer of 1936, he was arrested and placed in isolation, he was charged with counter-revolutionary Trotskyist activities. Ulyanov was sentenced to five years. At first, Nikolai Ivanovich served his sentence in Solovki, then he was transferred to Norilsk. He was released on June 2, 1941.
Participation in the war
Due to the outbreak of World War II, Nikolai Ivanovich was forced to stay in Ulyanovsk, where he worked first as a cab driver, and later was engaged in trench work, was taken prisoner near Vyazma and sent to a camp, but after a while Ulyanov escaped from there and got to Leningrad. Together with his wife he lived in the village, here Ulyanov worked on the historical novel Atossa.
In 1943, the Ulyanovs were sent to forced labor in German concentration camps, where the historian worked as a welder and his wife worked as a doctor.
After the war
After the end of hostilities, Nikolai Ivanovich and his wife moved to Casablanca. In 1947, Ulyanov joined the Union of the Struggle for Freedom of Russia.
Until 1953, he could not engage in science, so he worked as a welder and at the same time wrote books, and also collaborated with magazines. In 1952, his novel Atossa was published.
In 1953, the historian and his wife left for Canada, where he worked at the University of Montreal, after which he moved to America and worked at Yale University.
In 1973, the famous historian graduated from work and retired. Nikolai Ivanovich Ulyanov died on March 7, 1985 at the age of 81, and was buried in the United States.
Personal life
He was married twice. The first marriage was short-lived and unsuccessful.
The second time he married Nadezhda Nikolaevna Kalnish, a doctor.
There were no children.
