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Звание: Доцент
Degree: Кандидат исторических наук
Institute of History and International Relations - Head of the department
Rostov-on-Don, Pushkinskaya str., 140, office № 216
Born in 1978. After graduating from high school in 1995, he entered the History Department of Rostov State University, where he graduated with honors in 2001 (Master's degree). From 2002, he worked in the Department of Russian History of the Middle Ages and Modern Times as an assistant, then as a senior lecturer in 2004, and as an associate professor in 2012.
In 2022, he became the head of the Department of Special Historical Disciplines and Methods of Teaching History and Social Science.
In 2004, he defended his PhD dissertation on "A Conservative Version of Russia's Modernization in the Second Half of the 19th Century."
The degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences was awarded by decision of the Dissertation Council D 063.52.08 in Historical Sciences at Rostov State University on October 22, 2004. N 9 and Diploma KT N 141066, Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation dated January 28, 2005.
On October 24, 2025, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences on the topic "Northwestern Outskirts in Domestic National-Conservative Discourse of the Second Half of the 19th - Early 20th Centuries" before the Dissertation Council of SFedU 801.03.01 in Historical Sciences.
Maxim Nikolaevich Krot has 15 years and 7 months of scientific and teaching experience, including 14 years and 1 month of teaching experience in higher education institutions and/or continuing professional education organizations, scientific organizations, including 14 years and 1 month in the scientific specialty 07.00.02; Russian History.
He teaches the following lecture courses: "Historiography of Russian and Foreign History," "Historical Geography," "Current Issues of Historical Research," "History of Russia," and "Current Approaches to the Study of Russian History in Foreign Rossika."
M.N. Krot's research interests currently cover the following topics: Russian history of the second half of the 19th century, problems of Russian socio-political thought of the second half of the 19th century, the historiography of Russian history, the Russian Empire's policy towards national borderlands, and the problems of integrating the northwestern borderlands into Russia's imperial space.
In 2020-2025, lecture courses and teaching materials were developed and updated in the following areas: "Russian History of the 19th Century," Part 1 for third-year students; "History of Russia," Part 1 for students majoring in non-history; "Historiography of Russian and Foreign History," Part 1 for third-year students; and "Historical Geography," Part 1 for first- and second-year students. Elective course "Current Approaches to the Study of Russian History in Foreign Rossika" for first-year master's students. All these courses are equipped with the necessary set of electronic presentation materials.
Over the past five years, seven research papers in peer-reviewed journals and two textbooks have been published in this field.
Main publications:
Articles in scientific journals included in the HAC List
Krot, M. N. The Problem of Interaction between the Imperial Center and National Outskirts in the Views of the Russian Conservative Thinker S. F. Sharapov / M. N. Krot // Modern Science: Current Problems of Theory and Practice. Series: Humanities. - 2018. - No. 5/2. - Pp. 8–13. K2. (0.74 pp).
Samygin, P. S. Imperial Consciousness of Russian Society in the Context of the Reunification of Crimea with Russia / P. S. Samygin, M. N. Krot // Scientific Notes of the Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Sociology. Pedagogy. Psychology. - 2018. - Vol. 4 (70), No. S2. - Pp. 194–198. K2. (0.6 / 0.3 pp).
Krot, M. N. "...Attentively and benevolently listening to the true needs of northwestern Rus'." (Cultural and educational activities of Prince P. D. Svyatopolk-Mirsky as Vilnius Governor-General) / M. N. Krot // Bulletin of Omsk University. Series: Historical Sciences. - 2019. - No. 1 (21). - Pp. 69-80. - DOI 10.25513/2312-1300.2019.1.69-80. K1. (1.2 pp).
Krot, M. N. "It is time to stop punishing children for the misdeeds of their fathers...": Polish hopes in the era of "trust" in the fall of 1904 / M. N. Krot // Manuscript. – 2019. – Vol. 12, No. 4. – Pp. 30–35. – DOI 10.30853/manuscript.2019.4.5. (0.6 pp.).
Krot, M. N. “Russia is destined to lead the Baltic region toward civil and ecclesiastical enlightenment...”: The Formation of the Concept of Russification of the Baltic Region in the 1840s / M. N. Krot, P. S. Samygin // Humanities, Socio-Economic, and Social Sciences. Series: Historical Sciences. Cultural Studies. Political Sciences. – 2019. – No. 2. – Pp. 15–20. K2. (0.6 / 0.3 pp.).
Krot, M. N. "Touching on matters of faith with possible caution...": the policy of "church-parish Russification" of the Northwestern Territory and the Vilnius Governor-General Prince P.D. Svyatopolk-Mirsky / M. N. Krot // Notebooks on Conservatism. - 2020. - No. 2. - Pp. 318-330. - DOI 10.24030/24092517-2020-0-2-318-330. K3. (1.3 pp.).
Krot, M. N. Governor's Reports: A Report on the Work Done or a Program for the Development of the Region? / M. N. Krot // New Past. - 2021. - No. 1. - Pp. 246-256. – DOI 10.18522/2500-3224-2021-1-246-256. K2. (0.6 printer's sheet).
Krot, M. N. Imperial consciousness of Russian society as the ideological basis of domestic conservative discourse / M. N. Krot // Scientific thought of the Caucasus. – 2022. – No. 4(112). – Pp. 111–120. K2. (1.0 printer's sheet).
Krot, M. N. "The Northwestern region... is in particular need of Russian historical education": report of the Vilnius department of the Society of zealots of Russian historical education in memory of Emperor Alexander III for 1903 / M. N. Krot // New past. – 2022. – No. 3. – Pp. 174–189. – DOI 10.18522/2500-3224-2022-3-174-188. K2. (1.0 p.s.).
Krot, M. N. "Soft Power" of Russian Political Nationalism: The Conservative Concept of Russian Supranational Imperial Statehood in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Centuries / M. N. Krot // Bulletin of the Ryazan State University named after S.A. Yesenin. – 2023. – No. 3 (80). – Pp. 28–38. – DOI 10.37724/RSU.2023.80.3.002. K2. (1.2 p.s.).
Krot, M. N. "Russian education is stronger than the Russian bayonet...": Educational policy as an element of the "soft power" strategy in the western outlying regions of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries / M. N. Krot // Scientific Thought of the Caucasus. - 2023. - No. 3 (115). - Pp. 59–69. - DOI 10.18522/2072-0181-2023-115-59-69. K2. (1.0 p.).
Krot, M. N. "To use all efforts for a comprehensive study of the Muravyov era...": Muravyov stories in the activities of the Vilnius department of the Society of Zealots of Russian Historical Education / M. N. Krot // Notebooks on Conservatism. - 2023. - No. 4 - Pp. 144–151. K3. (0.8 p.p.).
Krot, M. N. Formation of the Conceptual Foundations of the Policy of Russification of the Western Outlying Regions in the Domestic Conservative Discourse on the Eve of the January Uprising of 1863 // Notebooks on Conservatism. - 2023. - No. 3. - Pp. 30-43. - DOI 10.24030/24092517-2023-0-3-30-43. K3. (1.3 pp.).
Krot, M. N. "To hold firm against the pressure of the Germans...": letter from E. V. Cheshikhin to N. P. Gilyarov-Platonov on the situation in the Baltic region in the late 1870s / M. N. Krot // New Past. 2023. No. 3. Pp. 283-296. – DOI 10.18522/2500-3224-2023-3-283-296. K2. (1.0 p.s.).
Krot, M. N. Controversy over the Introduction of the Russian Language into Catholic Worship in the Northwestern Territory in Domestic National-Conservative Discourse in the Second Half of the 19th Century / M. N. Krot // Scientific Thought of the Caucasus. – 2024. – No. 3 (119). – Pp. 53–62. – DOI 10.18522/2072-0181-2024-119-53-62. K2. (1.0 p.s.).
Articles in scientific publications included in Scopus, Web of Science, RSCI
Krot, M. N. Russification – Pro et Contra: Polemic in the Russian Conservative Thought in the late XIX century / M. N. Krot, N. V. Dmitrieva // Bylye Gody. – 2018. – No. 47(1). – P. 360–369. – DOI 10.13187/bg.2018.1.360. K1. (1.2 / 0.6 p.l.).
Krot, M.N.P.A. Valuev and the Formation of Government Policy in Relation to the Western Territory (161-1865) / M. N. Krot, A. I. Narezhny // Bylye Gody. – 2019. – No. 51(1). – P. 262–271. – DOI 10.13187/bg.2019.1.262. K1. (1.2 / 0.6 pp).
Krot, M. N. "To put the Lithuanian nationality on the right path of development...": a note by Prince Peter Svyatopolk-Mirsky on the Latin-Lithuanian script / M. N. Krot // Quaestio Rossica. – 2020. – Vol. 8, No. 1. – Pp. 205–221. – DOI 10.15826/qr.2020.1.457. K1. (1.1 pp).
Dmitrieva, N. V. "Unfortunately, the government is encountering resistance, not support": a senatorial revision of the Baltic provinces / N. V. Dmitrieva, M. N. Krot // Quaestio Rossica. – 2019. – Vol. 7, No. 3. – Pp. 851–868. – DOI 10.15826/qr.2019.3.412. K1. (1.2 / 0.6 pp.).
Krot, M. N. The activities of V. V. von Wahl as head of the Vilnius province in 1901–1902 / M. N. Krot // Scientific dialogue. – 2021. – No. 10. – Pp. 396–411. – DOI 10.24224/2227-1295-2021-10-396-411. K1. (0.8 pp.).
Krot, M. N. "The Peaceful Conquest of Minds and Hearts by the Power of Enlightenment...": Activities of the Vilnius Branch of the "Society of Advocates of Russian Historical Enlightenment in Memory of Emperor Alexander III" / M. N. Krot // Electronic Scientific and Educational Journal "History". - 2022. - Vol. 13, No. 2 (112). - DOI 10.18254/S207987840018225-6. K1. (1.2 pp.).
Krot, M. N. Non-conflict Forms of Integration of Russia's Western Regions in the Late Imperial Period / M. N. Krot, O. O. Zavyalova // Bulletin of St. Petersburg University. History. - 2023. - Vol. 68, No. 4. - P. 890–905. – DOI 10.21638/spbu02.2023.405. K1. (1.5 / 0.75 pp).
Krot, M. N. Integration Policy in the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Centuries / M. N. Krot, O. O. Zavyalova // Scientific Dialogue. – 2023. – Vol. 12, No. 7. – Pp. 374–392. – DOI 10.24224/2227-1295-2023-12-7-374-392. K1. (1.0 / 0.5 pp).
Krot, M. N. “Local Government Does Not Meet the Actual Needs of the Time...”: The Imperial Administration of Russia’s Northwestern Krai in the Context of Growing Social Tensions in the Early 20th Century. / M. N. Krot // Bulletin of Tomsk State University. History. - 2024. - No. 91. - Pp. 24-34. - DOI 10.17223/19988613/91/3. K1. (1.0 p. sheet).
Krot, M. N. The Northwestern Outskirts of Russia in the Policy of Russian Authorities and Public Thought of the Late Imperial Period: A Historiographical Aspect / M. N. Krot, O. O. Zavyalova // Bylye Gody. - 2024. - No. 19(4). - Pp. 1717-1727. - DOI 10.13187/bg.2024.4.1717. K1. (1.5 / 0.75 p. sheet).
Articles in publications indexed in the Russian Science Citation Index
Krot, M. N. The Concept of "Russification" in a Historical and Research Context: Content, Approaches, and Assessments / M. N. Krot // National Outskirts in the Politics of the Russian Empire and Russian Social Thought: A Glossary of Concepts / Russian Science Foundation, Federal Research Center, Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Rostov-on-Don: Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020. pp. 28-55. (1.9 pp.).
Krot, M. N. "Under the Mighty Wings of the Russian Eagle...": Russian Conservative Thinker S. F. Sharapov and His Project for the Administrative-Territorial Reorganization of the Russian Empire / M. N. Krot // Contemporary Problems and Solutions in Science, Production, and Education. 2020, No. 9, pp. 109-115. (0.4 pp.).
Krot, M. N. "What Should We Be?": The Search for Social Support for Autocracy in the Context of Russia's Modernization in the Second Half of the 19th Century / M. N. Krot // Modernization of Russia: Current Research Areas: Collective Monograph. – Rostov-on-Don; Taganrog: Southern Federal University, 2019. – Pp. 36-55. – (Bulletin of the Russian National Research University for the Social Sciences-2019). (0.9 pp.).
Krot, M. N. "Russification or Democratic Europeanization"? K. N. Leontiev on the Policy of the Imperial Authorities Toward the National Outskirts of Russia in the Second Half of the 19th Century / M. N. Krot // Current Problems and Solutions in Science, Production, and Education. – 2017. – No. 1
Publications in conference proceedings
Krot, M. N. "An objective document as the basis of historical truth": publication of materials from the "Muravyov" era by the Vilna "advocates" of Russian historical education in the early 20th century / M. N. Krot // The scientific legacy of Professor A.P. Pronshtein and current problems of historical science (on the 105th anniversary of the outstanding Russian scholar's birth): proceedings of the All-Russian (with international participation) scientific and practical conference, Rostov-on-Don, March 21-22, 2024. - Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog: Publishing House of the Southern Federal University, 2024. - pp. 163-173. (0.5 pp.).
Krot, M. N. "An empire against its will...": understanding Russian imperial statehood in the works of D.I. Mendeleev / M. N. Krot // Grishaev Readings: Proceedings of the VI International Scientific Conference Dedicated to the Memory of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Higher Education Vasily Vasilyevich Grishaev, Krasnoyarsk, November 29–30, 2023. – Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, 2024. – Pp. 130–133. (0.4 printer's sheet).
Krot, M. N. “To Strengthen the State Ties between the Grand Duchy and the Empire...”: Attempts to Incorporate Finland into the Russian Imperial Space in the Late 19th – Early 20th Centuries / M. N. Krot // Under the Scepter of the Romanovs. To the 300th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Russia as an Empire: Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference, Kaliningrad, Perm, Kazan, June 4 – June 22, 2021. – Perm: Limited Liability Company Media Holding "Uralsky Rabochy", 2022. – Pp. 91-106. (0.6 pp.).
Krot, M. N. Vilnius Governor-General Prince P. D. Svyatopolk-Mirsky and the Problem of "Church-Parish Russification" of the Northwestern Territory of the Russian Empire at the Beginning of the 20th Century / M. N. Krot // "The Long 19th Century" in the History of Belarus and Eastern Europe: Studies in Modern and Contemporary History. – 2020. – No. 4. – Pp. 149-162. (0.6 pp.).
Krot, M. N. Cultural and Educational Activities of Prince P. D. Svyatopolk-Mirsky at the post of Vilna Governor-General / M. N. Krot // Russian readings - 2019: university science and historical education in Belarus XX - part of the XXI century. Yes, the 85th year of the creation of the Faculty of the Belarusian State University: Materials of the International Scientific and Practical Conference, Minsk, October 23–24, 2019 / [editorial: A.G. Kakhanovski (senior) and insh.]. – Minsk: BDU, 2019. – Pp. 127-136. (0.7 pp.).
Monographs
Krot, M. N. "To modernize, while preserving...": the conservative trend in Russian social thought in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries / M. N. Krot. – Rostov-on-Don; Taganrog: Publishing House of Southern Federal University, 2018. – 230 pp. – ISBN 978-5-9275-3024-3. (14.0 pp.).
National outskirts in the politics of the Russian Empire and Russian social thought / PhD in history A. A. Andreev, PhD in history O. A. Grom, N. V. Dmitrieva [et al.]; Russian Science Foundation, Federal Research Center Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences; edited by A. T. Urushadze. – Rostov-on-Don: Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020. – 605 p. – ISBN 978-5-4358-0198-9. (49.0 / 7.0 pp.).
In 2021–2022, he was the head of the Russian Science Foundation grant #22-28-01912, “The ‘Soft Power’ of the Empire: Non-Conflict Forms and Practices of Integration of Russia’s Western Regions in 1881–1904.”
Completed advanced training in the following programs:
"Interaction of Global, National, and Regional History in University Courses on Russian History: New Approaches and Technologies," SFedU Institute of Advanced Training, Rostov-on-Don, 2012; Scientific and Practical Seminar "Interactive Teaching Methods: Experience of Systematic Application in Humanities Courses," held by the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University at the SFedU Institute of International Relations, Rostov-on-Don, 2016.
Participated in scientific and scientific-practical conferences at various levels:
International Scientific Conference "Humanities and Modernity," Moscow, 2014; International Correspondence Scientific and Practical Conference "Russian-Ukrainian Relations (History, Cooperation, Conflicts)," Moscow, 2014; All-Russian scientific conference "The Great Second Patriotic War...: Russia and Europe in the First World War" dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, Rostov-on-Don, 2014; All-Russian scientific conference "On the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory", Rostov-on-Don, 2015; All-Russian round table "Patriotic and spiritual-moral education in the system of continuous education of the Cossacks of Russia", Krasnodar, 2015; International scientific and practical conference "University in a Changing World", Rostov-on-Don, 2015; LIV All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation "Scientific discussion: issues of sociology, political science, philosophy, history", Moscow, 2016, International scientific and theoretical conference "Pichetov readings 2019: university historical science and historical education in Belarus in the 20th and early 21st centuries." Belarus. Minsk, Faculty of History, BSU, October 23-24, 2019. All-Russian scientific conference "Ideology: Revitalization of the Concept in Historical Research". Tomsk, Tomsk State University, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Southern Federal University, August 20-21, 2020. All-Russian scientific conference "New Past 2: Imperial and National in Historical Culture". Rostov-on-Don, IIMO SFedU, October 22-23, 2020. International scientific and practical conference "The Long 19th Century" in the History of Belarus and Eastern Europe. Minsk. State Educational Institution "Republican Institute of Higher Education", December 4, 2020.
