Dimitri Obolensky

Sir Dimitri Obolensky
Дмитрий Оболенский
Born	Prince Dmitri Dmitrievich Obolensky 1 April 1918 St Petersburg, Russian Soviet Republic
Died	23 December 2001(2001-12-23) (aged 83) Burford, Oxfordshire
Nationality	Russian
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Awards	Knights Bachelor
Academic background
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge (1937–42)
Thesis	The Bogomils: A Study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism (1942)
Doctoral advisor	Elizabeth Hill
Influences	Francis Dvornik, Ihor Ševčenko, John Meyendorff
Academic work
Institutions	Trinity College, Cambridge (1942–49) Christ Church, Oxford (1949–85)
Doctoral students	Anthony Bryer, Michael Angold, James Howard-Johnston, Jonathan Shepard, Simon Franklin
Notable works	The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe, 500–1453
Notable ideas	Byzantine commonwealth

Sir Dimitri Dimitrievich Obolensky FBA FSA (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Оболенский; 1 April [O.S. 19 March] 1918 – 23 December 2001) was a Russian-British historian who was Professor of Russian and Balkan History at the University of Oxford and the author of various historical works.