Dubrovin Nikolay

Dubrovin, Nikolay [26 November (8 December) 1837, village of Koritovo, present-day Velikiye Luki district, Pskov Oblast – 12 (25) June 1904, St. Petersburg] was a Russian military historian, a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1890), and General of the Artillery (1893).

From 1882, he was a member of the Military-Scientific Committee under the General Staff. A prominent figure in official Russian historiography, Dubrovin sought to justify the colonial policies of the Tsarist regime. In 1869, he was sent to Tbilisi for four months.

He authored the six-volume work “History of the War and Russian Domination in the Caucasus”, which covers the Russian conquest of the Caucasus and contains valuable material on the internal conditions of the region and Georgia in particular.

Dubrovin also wrote special studies on Georgia and Transcaucasia at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. His works on Russia’s Patriotic War of 1812 also shed light on the role and activities of Prince Peter Bagration.

Literary works: Закавказье от 1803 г. по 1806 год, СПб., 1866; История войны и владычества русских на Кавказе, т. 1–6, СПб., 1871–88; Георгий XII, последний царь Грузии и присоединение ея к России, СПб., 1897.