page_title: Inna Lubimenko
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Inna Lubimenko / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Vladimir Nikolaevich Lyubimenko botanist (1873-1937)
context_page_description: Inna Ivanovna Lubimenko, or Lioubimenko, was a Russian and Soviet historian of the early modern period and a specialist in Anglo-Russian relations. She earned her doctorate in Paris and travelled regularly to London and Moscow in the course of her researches, publishing articles in English language and French journals. She was the only woman to address the International Congress of Historical Studies in London in 1913.
  From 1916 she was based in Russia, working as a researcher, archivist, and lecturer at official academic institutions, particularly the Academy of Sciences whose history she researched and helped to write. She was evacuated from Leningrad during the Second World War with her institute and received the medals for the "defence of Leningrad" and for "Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." After her retirement she wrote essays on the history of Saint Petersburg where she died in 1959.
context_section_description: Inna Lubimenko was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on 1(13) April 1878. Her father was the botanist Ivan Parfenievich Borodin and her mother Alexandra Grigoryevna. She received her basic education at the Obolenskaya Gymnasium before taking higher classes in the history of the Middle Ages under Ivan Mikhaĭlovich Grevs and Georgīĭ Vasilevich Forsten, graduating in 1904.
  On Grevs' advice, in 1905 she went to the Sorbonne in Paris. There she studied under Charles Bémont and received her doctorate on the subject of John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond. It was published in 1908.
  She married the distinguished botanist and academician Vladimir Nikolaevich Lyubimenko, who worked in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Crimea where they lived for a time. He was also at the Sorbonne in 1905.
caption: Inna's husband, Vladimir Nikolaevich Lyubimenko[1]
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