Alexander Soloviev

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Alexander Soloviev (in Serbian: Александар Соловјев, in Russian: Александр Соловьёв) (1890–1971) was a Slavist, researcher of the Bogumils, Serbian heraldry, philately, archeology, translator from Russian and French, professor of history of Slavonic and Byzantine law at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade and Sarajevo.

Soloviev came to Yugoslavia from Russia in the 1920s with tens of thousands of other White Russian immigrants. Following the communist takeover in Yugoslavia, both he and his wife were arrested and exiled from the country in 1949. He became the professor of Slavic studies at the University of Geneva (1951-1961).

[edit] Selected bibliography:

• Selected Monuments of Serbian Law from the 12th to 15th centuries (1926),
• Legislation of Stefan Dušan, emperor of Serbs and Greeks (1928),
• Dušan's Code in - 1349 and 1354 (1929),
• Greek Charters of Serbian Rulers (1936),
• Lectures from the History of Serbian Law (1939),
• History of Serbian Coat of Arms (1958).