Alexander Soloviev (historian)

Alexander Soloviev (Serbian: Александар Соловјев, Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Соловьёв) (1890–1971) was a Slavist, researcher of the Bogumils, Serbian heraldry, philately, archeology, translator from Russian and French, and professor of history of Slavonic and Byzantine law at the University of Belgrade's Law School and Sarajevo as well.

Soloviev came to Yugoslavia from Russia in the 1920s with tens of thousands of other White Russian immigrants. Following the communist takeover in the Yugoslavia, both he and his wife were arrested and exiled from the country in 1949. He became professor of Slavic studies at the University of Geneva (1951–1961). Subsequently, he continued his career in Washington, D.C. Soloviev concluded his doctoral studies in Belgrade in 1928, and his thesis was on the legislature of Serbia on Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia. For a short time, he also lectured at the University of Lvov, where he published his research on Dušan's Code in Polish. His father, Vasili Fyodorovich Soloviev, was a judge at the Appellate Court in Warsaw. His son Alexander worked at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

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)

External links

• Соловьев Александр Васильевич // РЕЛИГИОЗНЫЕ ДЕЯТЕЛИ РУССКОГО ЗАРУБЕЖЬЯ(in Russian)