Kosminskaya Eugene A.

(21.10 (12.02) 1886 - 24.07.1959 +)


In 1910,. graduated from Moscow University. Since 1921 Member of the Institute of History Association of Russia scientific - research institutes of social sciences (RANION), since 1929 - the Institute of History of the Communist Academy. He headed the Department of Medieval History, Moscow State University (1934 - 1949 gg.) Sector and Medieval History at the Institute of History of the USSR (1936 - 1952).

Widely known studies Kosminskaya on agrarian history of medieval England 11 - 15 cc. In which the scientist showed fiefdom as an organization to assign a feudal land-rent exploited peasants. He reveals the predominance of money rents over barshchina and natural dues, noted widespread employment and concluded that the development already in this period of commodity - money relations in the English countryside.

Kosminsky developed as issues of historiography of the Middle Ages, the history of the English bourgeois revolution 17., The history of Byzantium, was one of the authors of the first volume "History of Diplomacy. He was one of the principal authors and editors of the leading textbooks on the history of the Middle Ages to the middle and high school in the late 30 - mid-50's, produced a large number of followers - medievalists.