Igor Pavlovich Shaskol'skii | |
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| Born | 31 October 1918 Petrograd, Soviet Russia (now St. Petersburg) |
| Died | 21 April 1995 (aged 76) Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
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| Thesis | Столбовский мир 1617 г. и торговые отношения России со Шведским государством в первой половине XVII в. (The Stolbovo Peace of 1617 and Russia's trade relations with the Swedish state in the first half of the 17th century) (1965) |
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| Discipline | Economic history |
| School or tradition | Soviet |
| Institutions | Saint Petersburg University |
Igor Pavlovich Shaskol'skii or Shaskolsky (Russian: Игорь Павлович Шаскольский; 31 October 1918 – 25 April 1995) was a Russian medievalist and economic historian who was a specialist in Russian relations and trade with the Baltic provinces and Scandinavia in the medieval and early-modern periods.
Early in his life he was present during the Siege of Leningrad and subsequently worked at various Soviet state-sponsored institutions. He was a part-time lecturer at Saint Petersburg University and a corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Institute of History and its predecessors. He challenged the established Soviet positions on the origins of the Rus' and trade through the Baltic, and was instrumental in the wider dissemination of primary source material.