Nikolai Ivanovich Ulyanov - a famous Russian historian and writer, candidate of historical sciences and a participant in the Great Patriotic War
early years
Nikolai Ivanovich Ulyanov was born on January 5, 1905 in St. Petersburg. Here, the future historian and writer attended school, where he became interested in the humanities.
Education
At the age of 17, Nikolai began to study at Petrograd University, studied social sciences, 3 years later, in 1925, transferred to the faculty of linguistics and material culture. At that time he was also engaged in creative activities: the young man attended stage-mastering courses and even practiced at the Mariinsky Theater.
In 1927, Nikolai Ivanovich successfully graduated from the university, defending a thesis on the influence of foreign capital. At the direction of his teacher, an outstanding historian S.F. Platonov became a graduate student at the same university.
Career historian and later life
Until 1930, he was preparing for scientific activities, studied at the Institute of History, was the secretary of the Russian history section, and also worked as a secretary in the editorial office of the institute’s wall newspaper.
At this time, the young scientist wrote many works on historical subjects, compiled archival materials on the history of the Kola Peninsula, a review of materials on the Razin uprising, published in 1930.
At the end of his work at the institute, Ulyanov went to Arkhangelsk, where he became a teacher in the Northern Territorial Komvuz, which he was until 1933. At 26, he became a member of the CPSU (b). While in Arkhangelsk, Nikolai Ivanovich writes a work on the history of the people of Komi-Zyryan, for which in 1935 he was awarded the degree of candidate of historical sciences. Two important topics were raised in this work: the struggle against Russian chauvinism and the struggle against bourgeois nationalism. He talked about the expansion of Russians into Siberia and the North, equating this with brutal colonization.
Since 1933, the 28-year-old historian was a senior researcher at the Historical and Archaeological Commission in Leningrad, and also was an assistant professor of the Department of History at the Leningrad Historical and Linguistic Institute. In 1935, Nikolai Ivanovich published the book "Peasant War in the Moscow State of the 17th Century."
Already at 30, Ulyanov headed the department of the history of the peoples of the USSR. At the same time he worked at the Academy. Tolmacheva.
Arrest
In 1935, Ulyanov again published an article in which he talked about a new political party and wrote about the intensification of the class struggle as socialism developed in the country. After this, Nikolai Ivanovich was expelled from the membership of the CPSU (b) and dismissed from the institute.
In the early summer of 1936 he was arrested and placed in a detention center; he was charged with counter-revolutionary Trotskyist activity. Ulyanov was sentenced to five years. First, Nikolai Ivanovich served time in Solovki, then he was moved to Norilsk. He was released on June 2, 1941.
Participation in the war
Because of the outbreak of World War II, Nikolai Ivanovich was forced to stay in Ulyanovsk, where he first worked as a cabman, and later was engaged in trenching, was captured near Vyazma and sent to the camp, but after some time Ulyanov fled from there and reached Leningrad. Together with his wife he lived in the village, here Ulyanov worked on the historical novel "Atossa".
In 1943, the Ulyanovs were sent to forced labor in German concentration camps, where the historian worked as a welder and his wife as a doctor.
After the war
After the end of hostilities, Nikolai Ivanovich and his wife moved to Casablanca. In 1947, Ulyanov joined the Union for the Freedom of Russia.
Until 1953, he could not do science, so he worked as a welder and at the same time wrote books, and also collaborated with magazines. In 1952, his novel Atossa was published.
In 1953, the historian and his wife left for Canada, where he worked at the University of Montreal, after which he moved to America and worked at Yale University.
In 1973, the famous historian finished his work and went on a well-deserved rest. Nikolai Ivanovich Ulyanov died on March 7, 1985, at 81 years of age, buried in the United States.
