Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky was an American historian and longtime professor at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for his influential textbook *A History of Russia* and for his scholarship on Russian and European intellectual history. Born in Harbin, China, in 1923 to Russian émigré parents, he became one of the leading American experts on Russian history and taught at Berkeley from 1957 until his retirement in 1997.