Vasily Bilbasov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasily Bilbasov

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1838

Place of Birth: Poltava, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 24-Jun-1904

Profession: historian

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Vasily Alexeyevich Bilbasov (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ?????????, 19 June 1838, Poltava, Ukraine, then Russian Empire, — 24 July 1904, Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian Empire historian, editor and publicist, the greatest authority on the rule of Catherine the Great of his time.
His magnum opus, the fundamental History of Catherine the Second, published in 1890, and revealing aspects of the great Russian ruler's life that had been hitherto unknown, caused furore, the second volume of it in 1891 was banned.
By 1896, two more volumes of the treatise came out, but it remained unfinished.In 1871-1883 Bilbasov was the editor-in-chief of Golos, the influential liberal newspaper in Saint Petersburg.