German Fedorov-Davydov
German Alexeyevich Fedorov-Davydov (Russian: Герман Алексеевич Федоров-Давыдов) (17 July 1931 – 13 April 2000) was a Russian and Soviet historian, archaeologist, numismatist and art historian, professor of Moscow State University. German Fedorov-Davydov was born in a family of highly educated, impoverished nobility, with old tradition of science; one of his ancestors, Davydov, was a 19th-century rector of the Moscow University. His father Aleksei Fedorov-Davydov, was a Soviet art historian and university professor. German Fedorov-Davydov graduated from the Moscow State University Historical division in 1954 majoring in archeology. In 1969 he became a professor in the Archeology Institute of the USSR Academy of Science, his post-graduate and doctoral monographs were "Altyn Orda coin hoards" (1957), and "East European Nomads from 10th to 14th centuries" (1966).