David Vseviov (born as David Isaakovich Vseviov on 27 May 1949) is an Estonian historian and pedagogue. [1] [2]
David Vseviov (born as David Isaakovich Vseviov on 27 May 1949) is an Estonian historian and pedagogue. [1] [2]
David Vseviov was 27 born May 1949 in Estonia. Vseviov speaks both Estonian and Russian fluently and is of Jewish heritage on the side of his father Isaac Vseviov and mother Rezi Vseviova. [3]
In 1966 he graduated from the Tallinn Secondary School No. 6 (now the Tallinn Central Russian Gymnasium), and in 1971 from the Faculty of History and Linguistics of Tartu State University as a historian and history teacher. Since 1986 he is teaching art history and visual culture at Estonian Academy of Arts (professor). [1] [2]
Since 1997 he has hosted the radio program Müstiline Venemaa ('Mysterious Russia'). [4]
Married, has three children. His son Jonatan has worked in the Estonian Ministry of Defense and foreign ministry.
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