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Aleksandr Aleksándrovich Vasíliev (en ruso: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Васи́льев, en inglés: Alexander Vasiliev; San Petersburgo, 4 de octubre de 1867 - Washington D. C., 30 de mayo de 1953) fue un historiador y bizantinista ruso y estadounidense, considerado la principal autoridad en historia y cultura bizantina a mediados del siglo XX.
- Александр Александрович Васильев
- Estadounidense, rusa y soviética
Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Васи́льев; 4 October 1867 – 30 May 1953) was considered the foremost authority on Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century.
Aleksandr Aleksándrovich Vasíliev fue un historiador y bizantinista ruso y estadounidense, considerado la principal autoridad en historia y cultura bizantina a mediados del siglo XX.
31 de jul. de 2020 · History of the Byzantine Empire 324-1453, by Alexander A. Vasiliev (Madison, 1952), in 856 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages, complete in one volume. This is a classic work by a profound historian.
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Early years
Alexander Vassiliev was born in Moscow, Russian SFSRon May 1, 1962. Vassiliev joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1983 while he was a student at Moscow State University (MGU). He graduated from MGU with a degree in journalismin 1984. Vassiliev worked in the international department of Komsomolskaya Pravda (Young Communists' Truth) from 1984 to 1985. In 1985, he became a student in the Andropov Red Banner Institute of the KGBof the USSR, completing his studies there in 1987.
Soviet intelligence
Vassiliev worked as an operative of the First (American) Department of the First Chief Directorateof the KGB from 1987 to 1990. In February 1990, Vassiliev resigned from the KGB for political and moral reasons. He resigned from the Communist Party in that same year. He returned to the editorial staff of Komsomolskaya Pravda, where he worked as a reporter and then columnist, writing mostly about international issues and espionage from 1990 to 1996. He also worked as an author and presenter of...
Emigration
Feeling a communist-nationalist restoration somewhat likely and their own safety tenuous, Alexander Vassiliev and his wife Elena decided to emigrate to Great Britain in 1996, leaving his precious notebooks with trusted friends for safekeeping rather than risking losing them to inquisitive officials at the airport. Copies of his draft chapters for The Haunted Wood were transferred to computer disks and some key documents were transcribed prior to their leaving.The resulting book based upon the...
Alexander Vassiliev vs Frank Cass
Vassiliev launched two lawsuits in association with The Haunted Wood, representing himself as a litigant in personin both cases. In July 2001, Vassiliev sued for libel Frank Cass & Co., publisher of the journal Intelligence and National Security, in The High Court of Justice in London, over the article "Venona and Alger Hiss" by John Lowenthal, published in Autumn 2000 issue of the journal. In January 2003 Frank Cass's lawyers offered Alexander Vassiliev to settle the monetary claim for more...
Non-Fiction
Vassiliev is an expert in Soviet and Russian intelligence: 1. The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America: The Stalin Era (1999) 2. Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America(2009) 3. Alexander Vassiliev Papers (2009) (Finding Aid>) 4. Vassiliev Notebooks (2009)
Fiction
1. Russian Sector 2. Oblik("Look") (2014)
Publishing
As editor and publisher, Vassiliev promotes Russian classical literature by republishing – more than a dozen dual-language English-Russian editions by Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. He also edits and publishes French Classics in Russian by Gustave Flaubert, Alexandre Dumas Fils, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Stendhal and Marcel Proust.
2003, HISTORIA DEL IMPERIO BIZANTINO Alexander A.Vasiliev A tenor de esta ley singularmente patentizada en los pueblos costeros, y de modo especial en el Mediterráneo, para el oriental lo occidental es rústico e inexperto, y al revés: a los de acá los del otro, hijos de civilizaciones más antiguas, se les antojan decadentes y afeminados.
Alexander A. Vasiliev. Univ of Wisconsin Press, Apr 15, 1958 - History - 846 pages. “This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great...
