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Mikhail Koyalovich
Koyalovich Mikhail Osipovich
(02.10.1828 – 04.09.1891)
Church and civic historian, publicist, publisher; an author of the first scientific study on the history of Russian self-identity
Mikhail Koyalovich was born in the village of Kuznitsa, Sokolsky County, Grodno province (now in Poland). In 1845 he graduated from Suprasl religious school, in 1851 from Vilna ecclesiastical seminary. In 1855 he graduated from St. Petersburg Theological Academy, where he taught from 1856, from 1869 until the end of his days he was the head of the Chair of Russian civil history. In 1873 he received his doctorate in theology and became professor in ordinary. From 1869 to 1878 Koyalovich worked as Academy Inspector, from 1878 to 1884 as Assistant Rector of Church History Department. Koyalovich began to publish since 1858; he used to cooperate in many periodicals. He was the founder of the orthodox historical school, one of the main trends in Russian and Belarusian historiography associated with the study of church history. Mikhail Koyalovich was Honorary Member of the St. Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society, Grodno Church Archaeological Committee, and Member of the Society of Russian Philology Lovers at Moscow University.
Koyalovich was the author of scientific works, researcher and publisher of documentary materials on ethnic, political, church and household history of Belarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Among them: «The Lithuanian Church Union» (Vols. 1–2, 1859–1861), «On the resettlement of tribes of the Western Region of Russia» (1863), «On Ethnographic atlas of western provinces» (1863), «On ethnographic boundary between Western Russia and Poland» (1864), «Lectures on the History of Western Russia» (1864), «History of the reunification of West Russian Uniates of old times» (1873). On behalf of St. Petersburg Archeographic Commission in 1865 he prepared and published «Documents explaining the history of Western Russian region and its relationship to Russia and Poland» (with French translation); in 1869 «Diary of Lublin Seim of 1569. The unification of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Kingdom of Poland» (with Russian translation). In 1867, on behalf of the Imperial Academy of Sciences he published «Annals of the siege of Pskov by Stefan Batory». Koyalovich was one of the founders and the leading representative of West Russian ideology that had been most systematically grounded in 1884 in the major historiographical study «History of Russian consciousness in accordance with historical monuments and scientific writings». In this work he was the first in the scientific literature to extensively research the history of Russian self-identity, give the encyclopedic compendium of all existing in that time systems and views of Russian history understanding. In 1885–1887 Koyalovich published his sketch-book about his trip around Belarus and Lithuania. In 1888 he started to publish the political and literary weekly journal «Pravda». Mikhail Koyalovich died and was buried in St. Petersburg (Russia).
© National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 2011
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