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| A.K.A. | Семен Вуколович Шолкович | |
| A.K.A. | Семен Вуколович Шолкович | |
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| Birth | 3 May 1840, Minsk Governorate, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| Death | 8 October 1886Vilnius, Vilnius City Municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania (aged 46 years) |
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Semyon Vukolovich Sholkovich (Russian: Семён Вуколович Шолкович, 3 May 1840, Mozyr, Minsk Governorate, Imperial Russia – 8 October 1886, Vilno, Lithuania, then part of Russian Empire) was a Russian historian, journalist, philologist and pedagogue.
Sholkovich started his career as a journalist as a member of the staff of the Vilensky Vestnik (The Vilno Herald) newspaper, while serving as a Moskovskiye Vedomosti correspondent, writing on a wide range of subjects concerning history, philology and current politics. Among his scientifically acclaimed works were "On the Secret Societies of the North-Western Region of Russia in the Times of Prince A. Czartoryski" (published in Zarya, No.5, 1871), "On the History of the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania" (1885) and "The Polish Case Concerning the Russian West" (1885–1887). He was a member of the Vilno Archaeological Commission.