Dimitri OBOLENSKY Historian; (b. Saint Petersburg, 01 April 1918 – d. Oxford, 23 December 2001)

University professor: Oxford (Balkan and Russian history) full professor from 1949

Membership of SASA: Department of Historical Sciences; foreign member from 15 December 1988

Accession speech: Delivered the lecture at the SASA on 26 September 1989: Byzantium and Olga of Kiev