Sergei Mironenko
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Sergei Mironenko
One of Russia’s leading historians of the 19th century, as well as being the Director of the State Archives of the Russian Federation, and he is the editor of Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story – a historical biography of tsar Nicholas II’s family, murdered in July 1918. One of his principal concerns is to preserve and make available archives on the extensive gulag system and many other institutions of the former Soviet Union, and to assist the 6,000 researchers who annually visit the archives, in order to aid scholars to assess and reassess the past. He is editor of Anti-government Opposition During Khrushchev-Brezhnev Years (Yale University Press). His informal title is The Chief Keeper of Russian State Secrets.