Timofei Granovsky, professor of history at Moscow University, 1840-1855, had the great misfortune of maturing as a writer during the most repressive years of the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, and as a consequence Granovsky's published works are few. Nevertheless, Granovsky influenced many of the writers and critics of his age--including Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Vissarion Grigor'evich Belinsky--and through his teaching as well as his writing earned a reputation as "the Pushkin of history." Moreover, Granovsky's moral influence was surpassed only by that of the friend of his youth, Nikolai Vladimirovich Stankevich. With respect to literature and literary criticism, Granovsky taught the "historicist" view that literature was a part of its age; as a stylist he emphasized a liveliness, elegance, and simplicity that reflected his early love of Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin. With respect to his political ideas Granovsky is usually classified as a moderate...