K.Ya. Grot and Carpatho-Danubian Lands

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Konstantin Yakovlevich Grot (June 22 (July 4), 1853 - September 29,1934) was a Russian Slavist and archivist, the son to Academician Yakov Grot and the brother to the philosopher Nikolai Grot, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, one of the founders of the Russian Assembly. Grot graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg Imperial University, where he was a student of V.I. Lamansky. As a student, he was awarded a golden medal for The Analysis of the Testimonies of Konstantin Porphyrogenitus About the Southern Slavs. Grot received his Masters degree for his thesis Moravia and the Magyars from the Half of the 9th to the Early 10th Centuries (1881). In 1883, he became professor at the Department of Slavic Studies at the Imperial University of Warsaw. In 1889, Grot defended his doctoral dissertation From the History of Ugria and Slavs in the Twelfth Century (1889). In 1894, after the of Yakov Grot, Emperor Alexander III entrusted Konstantin Grot with the publication of his father's works and literary correspondence. In 1899, Grot moved to St. Petersburg, where in 1905 he was appointed head of the Public Archives of the Ministry of the Imperial Court. In 1905, in the New Collection of Articles on Slavic Studies by Lamansky, Grot published his article “Carpathian-Danubian lands in the fate of the Slavs and in Russian historical studies.” This essay later became the basis of the monograph Austria-Hungary, or the Carpatho-Danubian Lands in the Fates of the Slavs and in Russian Historical Studies, published and republished several times in 1914. In 1907, he edited the monograph Galician Rus Before and Now. Historical Essay and an Eyewitness's Look at the Current State. In 1914, Grot wrote the pamphlet “The Great War and the Carpatho-Danubian Monarchy (On the Coverage of Issues of the Near Future)” He also authored studies on famous Slavists: A. Budilovich, P. Kulakovsky, M. Lavrovsky, V. Lamansky, J. Pervolf, I. Filevich, and others. After the October Revolution, he was the administrator of the Archive. From April 1925 to November 1929, Grot worked as a researcher at the Pushkin House (over staff).