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Oleksiy Tolochko

Oleksiy Petrovych Tolochko (; born 7 June 1963) is a Ukrainian historian and medievalist, doctor of historical studies, and corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Tolochko is the director of the Centre of Kievan Rus' Studies () in Kyiv, and is known for his work on textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle.

Biography

Tolochko was born in 1963 in Kyiv (then written as Kiev), in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. His father is archaeologist Petro Tolochko, his mother is art critic Tetyana Valeryivna Kara-Vasilyeva; both are members of the National Academy of Sciences as well.

He graduated from secondary school No. 155 in Kyiv (1980) and the Faculty of History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1985).

Tolochko is a member of the Society of East Central European Studies. From August 1985 to October 1987, he was a research intern, from October 1987 to January 1991 a junior researcher, from January to September 1991 a researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine at the National Academy of Sciences. From September 1991 to February 1996, he served as the Head of the History Department, from February 1996 to January 1997, he was a doctoral student at the NASU Institute of Archaeology. Since January 1997 he has been a senior researcher at the Institute of History. In January 2009, he was elected a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences.

He has taught medieval history of Ukraine at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in the United States. Tolochko specialises in history, historiography, and public opinion. For a short time, he was the editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian intellectual magazine Krytyka. In the early 21st century, he was one of the leading scholars (along with Tetyana Vilkul, one of his former students) to challenge the traditional consensus that Aleksey Shakhmatov had essentially been correct about how the Primary Chronicle was put together. Tolochko argued that Shakhmatov's idea of layers of pre-existing svods that went all the way back to eyewitness accounts of the events they narrate could no longer be maintained.

Works

In Ukrainian (and in Russian)

In English

  • Tolochko, Oleksiy (2010). The Hustyn' Chronicle. (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Texts) .

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