Karsavin Leo Platonovich

Born in 1882, . graduated from the course to the historical-philological faculty of St. Petersburg University, . received a gold medal for the essay "Sidonius Apollinaris, . as a representative of a culture of V century "(part of this work and then published in the Journal of the Ministry of National Education", . 1908, . and in the "Compendium of the students of Professor Grevs),
. Placed in the Journal of the Ministry of National Education "(for 1908, 1909 and 1910) number of studies on the history of frantsiskanstva, give convincing answers to many questions. Seconded to Italy (1910 - 1912), . Karsavin expanded their research to the entire region "religiosity" XII and XIII centuries, and published an extensive study: "Essays on the religious life of Italy XII - XIII century." (St. Petersburg, . 1912, . Master's thesis), followed by a series of articles on issues in journals homogeneous,
. They also written a popular science book about the "Medieval Monasticism" (St. Petersburg, 1911) and several articles in this dictionary on the history of medieval spiritual culture. Consists of a teacher of St. Petersburg Higher Women's Courses, assistant professor of St. Petersburg University and a professor of St. Petersburg Institute of History and Philology. - See. IM. Grevs, "A new book on religious history of medieval Italy" ( "Journal of the Ministry of National Education, 1913, December).