Boris Turayev
Russian historian
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- PhD History Moscow State University
- Masters History Moscow State University
- Bachelors History Moscow State University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Boris Alexandrovich Turayev was a scholar who studied the Ancient Near East . He was admitted into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1918. After graduating from the University of St Petersburg Turayev studied under Gaston Maspero and Adolf Erman and worked in museums of Berlin, Paris and London. Since 1896, he delivered lectures at the University of St Petersburg. He was an ordinary professor of this university since 1911. After the establishment of the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts, Turayev persuaded Vladimir Golenishchev to sell his collection of ancient Egyptian statuary and curiosities to the museum. For a time he lived in the museum building, preparing the collection for exhibition. His own collection of Egyptian antiquities went to the State Hermitage.
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