Vladimir Picheta

Vladimir Ivanovich Picheta (Russian: Владимир Иванович Пичета; Belarusian: Уладзімір Іванавіч Пічэта; 21 October 1878, Poltava – 23 June 1947, Moscow) was a Belarusian and Soviet historian, first rector of the Belarusian State University (July 1921 - October 1929), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR since 1928, Honorary Professor of the BSSR (1926), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union since 1939, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union since 1946.

The scientist's mother, Maria Grigorievna Grigorenko, of Ukrainian origin, was the daughter of a Kyiv official of the Treasury Chamber.

Vasily Klyuchevsky was the scientific supervisor of his diploma (then called candidate) work "Yuri Krizhanich on the Moscow State".

In 1918, Vladimir Ivanovich defended his dissertation for a master's degree in Russian history on the first volume of the monograph “Agrarian reform of Sigismund-Augustus in the Lithuanian-Russian state”.

Picheta (the second wife of Vladimir Ivanovich), in June 1934 Beneš visited Moscow to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

When asked about his meetings in the Soviet Union, he said that he had met with a famous scientist, Slavic scholar, Professor Vladimir Picheta.

The historian Yury F. Ivanov, without questioning the possibility of Beneš' interference, based on archival materials, suggested that in the summer of 1934 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia was not in the USSR, the visit took place a year later, when he visited Moscow to exchange ratifications earlier the concluded agreement on mutual assistance.

This means that Picheta's release from exile took place no earlier than three months before the end of the term set for the scientist by the OGPU Collegium.

Vladimir Ivanovich studied the legal status of peasants and slaves in Lithuania, the position of this principality within the Commonwealth.

[7] In 2011, a memorial plaque in honor of Picheta was opened in Minsk (the building of the Faculty of History of the Belarusian State University).