Turaev B. History of the ancient East. In 2 volumes.

Turaev B. History of the ancient East. In 2 volumes.
L. Sotsekgiz. 1935 XII, 338 + 320 p., Fig. Hardcover, size 20 x 26 cm. Good condition, contamination of the cover. donative inscription. 

 

The work is a detailed course on the history of the Ancient East and covers the materials of the ancient societies of Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Iran. The books are provided with a large number of translations from the originals of various literary monuments and written documents of a socio-economic nature that depict various aspects of the life of ancient Eastern societies. The Preface of the Acad. V. V. Struve and I. L. Snegirev is devoted to determining the meaning of the work of the Acad. Turaeva in the development of the historical study of the peoples of the Ancient East and the characteristics of the socio-economic formation of the Ancient East. Boris Turaev is an Orientalist and the founder of the Russian school of history and Philology of the Ancient East (in particular, Egyptology and Ethiopic studies). For many years he worked in museums in France, England, Germany and Italy. Was Privat-docent of St. Petersburg University, where he taught a course in Egyptology and history of the Ancient East, Acad . Author of more than 150 works on the problems of history, the history of religion and the Church, archeology, art, Philology, source studies and historiography. In addition to the main disciplines he chose, he also studied semitology, Assyriology, sumerology, Coptology, hittitology, Urartian studies, and others.B. A. Turaev is the founder of the national school of Russian historians and philologists on the Ancient East and Ethiopia.