Maksim Kovalevsky
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Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky (1851 - 1916) was a sociologist and professor of Legal History at the University of St Petersburg.
He was at the University of Moscow from 1878 to 1887, where he studied legal institutions of Caucasian highlanders. Later he settled abroad, becoming friends with Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
In 1906 he founded the Progressist Party. He was a member of the State Duma, and was nominated for a Nobel peace prize in 1912.
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