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'''Sergey Mikhaylovich Solovyov''', (sometimes '''Soloviev,''' or '''Solovyev;''' ({{lang-ru|Серге́й Миха́йлович Соловьёв}}); ({{OldStyleDate|17 May|1820|5 May}}, in [[Moscow]] &ndash; {{OldStyleDate|16 AprilOctober|1879|4 AprilOctober}}, in Moscow) was one of the greatestinfluential [[Russia]]n historians whose influence on the next generation of Russian historians ([[Vasily Klyuchevsky]], [[Dmitry Ilovaisky]], [[Sergey Platonov]]) was paramount. His older son [[Vsevolod Solovyov]] was a historical novelist. His son [[Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)|Vladimir Solovyov]] was one of the most influential Russian philosophers. His olderyoungest sonchild, daughter [[VsevolodPolyxena SolovyovSolovyova]], was ana historicalnoted novelistpoet and illustrator.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Бондарюкф (Bondaryuk) |first1=Елена (Elena) |title=Дочь своего века, или Изменчивая Allegro |url=http://ktelegraf.com.ru/9977-doch-svoego-veka-ili-izmenchivaya-allegro.html |accessdate=4 June 2020 |issue=471 |date=16 March 2018 |newspaper=Крымский ТелеграфЪ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004031821/http://ktelegraf.com.ru/9977-doch-svoego-veka-ili-izmenchivaya-allegro.html |archivedate=4 October 2018 |location=Simferopol, Crimea |language=Russian |trans-title=The Daughter of Her Age, or the Volatile Allegro}}</ref>

Solovyov studied in the [[Moscow University]] under [[Timofey Granovsky]] and travelledtraveled in Europe as a tutor of Count [[Stroganov]]'s children until 1844. The following year he joined the staff of the [[Moscow University]], where he rose to the position of dean's positionand then rector (1871-&ndash;77). He also administrated the [[Kremlin Armoury]] and acted as tutor to the future [[Alexander III of Russia]].

Solovyov appreciated Russia's position as the outpost of [[Christianity]] in the East. In his opinion, the Russian statehood resulted from a "natural and necessary development" of numerous political and social forces, which he attempted to trace. He took particular interest in the [[Time of Troubles]] and [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]'s reforms, which he described as temporary diseases of the organism of the Russian state.

In the words of the 2004 [[Encyclopædia Britannica]], his ''History'' "wove a vast body of data into a unified and orderly whole that provided an exceptionally powerful and vivid picture of Russia's political development over the centuries. The work inaugurated a new era in Russian scholarship with its depiction of Russia as evolving through organic and rational processes from a primitive, family-based society into a centralized, autocratic state".

*Sergey Solovyov. History of Russia from the Earliest Times, {{ISBN |5-17-002142-9}} [http://www.lib.ru/HISTORY/SOLOVIEV/] (in Russian)