Matvei Lyubavsky

1 August], 1860, Ryazan Governorate – 22 November 1936, Ufa) was a Russian and Soviet historian, professor, academic and rector of the Moscow University from 1911 to 1917.

[2] After the removal of Alexander Manuilov as rector of the Imperial Moscow University in 1911 for political reasons, Lyubavsky was elected as his successor.

[3] After the October Revolution, he began to cooperate with the authorities in the name of saving the country's historical and cultural heritage, its archives.

In 1920 he was an expert-consultant on archival issues of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, participated in the Riga conference on the conclusion of a peace treaty between the RSFSR and Poland.

[4] On August 8, 1930, Lyubavsky was arrested in the so-called "Academic Case" and was in pre-trial detention for a year.