Vasily Struve (historian)

[1] In 1907 he entered the Department of History at the Faculty of History and Philology of the Petersburg University, where he studied the Ancient Greek and Latin languages, and Ancient Egyptian language under the leadership of the famous Russian Egyptologist Boris Turaev.

In 1935 Struve, nominated by Pavel Kokovtsov, was elected the full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, becoming an academician.

He authored numerous research papers and textbooks in these fields, including the generalizing work "History of [the] Ancient East" (1941).

Struve was the head of a large research team that began work on the publication of all Greek inscriptions from the Ancient Bosporan Kingdom.

He also published a work on the history of the Ancient Northern Black Sea Coast, Caucasus and Middle Asian civilizations.