Vasily Karazin
Politician, Inventor
1773 – 1842
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Who was Vasily Karazin?
Vasily Nazarovych Karazin was a Russian and Ukrainian enlightenment figure, intellectual, inventor, founder of The Ministry of National Education in Russian Empire and scientific publisher in Ukraine. He is the founder of Kharkiv University, which now bears his name. He is also known for opposing to what he saw as colonial exploitation of Ukraine by the Russian Empire, even though he himself was ethnically Serbian.
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- Born
- Jan 30, 1773
Ukraine - Ethnicity
- Ukrainians
- Serbs
- Greeks
- Nationality
- Russia
- Ukraine
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Mining Institute
- Died
- Nov 4, 1842
Mykolaiv
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on July 23, 2013
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