In memory of Nikolai Petrovich Eroshkin (9.09.1920-30.01.1988)

In the article, based on personal memories, the author analyzes the activities of a famous scientist and teacher, doctor of historical sciences, professor, who worked for more than forty years at the Institute of History and Archives of the Russian State Humanitarian University - Nikolai Petrovich Eroshkin. His scientific, methodological and teaching activities are analyzed. His academic career allowed him to be deservedly considered the largest specialist in the history of Russian statehood in the 19th - early 20th centuries. His lecturing skills were characterized by the audience as one of the best in the Institute of History and Archives. He is the author of a textbook on the history of state institutions in pre-revolutionary Russia, the study book that withstood three lifetime and two posthumous editions, and has not lost its relevance to this day. Particular attention is paid to his organizational skills, which made it possible to create a specialized department, the core of which was the school of scholars of the history of state known not only in the USSR, and later in the Russian Federation, but also abroad. It exists to this day and consists of his students and their students. Under his leadership, hundreds of theses were written, about forty of his students defended their Ph.D. theses, seven of whom became doctors of science.

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