Nikolai Mashkin

Nikolai Alexandrovich Mashkin (Russian: Николай Александрович Машкин; 9 February 1900, Sokolki – 15 September 1950, Moscow) was a Soviet scholar of Roman history (Doctor of Historical Sciences and Professor from 1942).

Mashkin authored The History of Ancient Rome (1947–56), which was translated into several languages, and The Principate of Augustus.

Its Origin and Social Essence (1949, translated into German, Italian, Hungarian and Romanian languages).

[1] Mashkin was born in the village of Sokolki, present Bugulminsky District in Russia.

[2] Mashkin extensively studied the history of Roman provinces, particularly Africa.