| Anatol Tsitou | |
|---|---|
| Анатоль Цітоў | |
| Born | (1947-11-27)November 27, 1947 Dresden, Soviet Occupation Zone |
| Died | January 5, 2021(2021-01-05) (aged 73) |
| Resting place | Čyžoŭka cemetery |
| Nationality | Belarusian |
| Alma mater | Belarusian State University |
| Known for | Research on Belarusian heraldry |
Anatol Tsitou (Belarusian: Анатоль Цітоў, Russian: Анатолий Титов, also Anatol Citoŭ 27 November 1947 - 5 January 2021) was a Belarusian historian and heraldist, known for his research of Belarusian heraldry.
Biography
Tsitou was born in Dresden, Soviet occupation zone in Germany.
He graduated from the History faculty of the Belarusian State University and in 1975 started his career as researcher at the Central State Historical Archives of the Belarusian SSR where he subsequently became senior palaeographer.
Since 1983 he taught at the Belarusian Institute of Culture and later at the Belarusian State University. In 1994 he became senior researcher at the Belarusian Documentology and Archives Research Institute.
Throughout his career, Tsitou researched and reconstructed the earliest coats of arms of Belarusian settlements. His work of rediscovering the Belarusian heraldic tradition originating from the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was not always welcomed by the Soviet authorities. In his first book about the coats of arms of Belarusian towns (1983), Tsitou collected all the known by then urban emblems. It was illustrated by an artist Jauhien Kulik who based this work on medieval seals. None of 1,000 copies of the book reached the state-controlled distribution; almost all copies rotted away in a warehouse. In the independent Belarus after 1991, virtually all Tsitou's reconstructions were accepted for the coats of arms of the country's settlements.
In early 1990s, Tsitou was member of a state commission developing the etalon of the white-red-white state flag of Belarus.
Selected works
Heraldry
- Гербы беларускіх гарадоў , 1983
- Гарадская геральдыка Беларусі , 1989
- Наш сімвал — Пагоня , 1993
- Пячаткі старажытнай Беларусі , 1993
- Геральдыка беларускіх местаў (XVI — пачатак XX ст.) , 1998
- Сфагістыка і геральдыка Беларусі [Sigillography and Heraldry of Belarus], 1999
- Геральдыка Беларусі , 2010
- Гербоўнік беларускіх гарадоў , 2015
Other topics
- Краіна майстроў. Рамесныя цэхі Беларусі: 16 - канец 18 ст. , 2013
- Беларусь на сямі рубяжах - with Leu Kazlou, 1993
- Шляхамі Францыска Скарыны , 2017
See also
Links
- Books by Anatol Tsitou at knihi.com
- Books by Anatol Tsitou at kamunikat.org
References
- ^ Памёр славуты гісторык і геральдыст Анатоль Цітоў - Radio Svaboda, 7 January 2021
- Geral'dyka belaruskich mestaŭ / Anatolʹ Citoŭ - National Library of Sweden
- Citoŭ, Anatolʹ Kirylavič (1947-....) Цiтоў, Анатоль Кiрылавiч (1947-....) - idRef.fr
- Rüdiger Ritter. Three states, one common past: chance or malediction? The role of history and historiography in the formation of collective identities and mutual relations in Belarus, Lithuania and Poland - p.65; Bremen University
- Пайшоў з жыцця беларускі гісторык, геральдыст Анатоль Цітоў - Narodnaya asveta publishing house, official website
- ^ Трафімовіч, Антон (2016-12-03). "Які сьлед у нашай геральдыцы пакінулі расейцы" [What impact Russians had on our heraldry]. Радыё Свабода. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
- Штыхаў, Георгі (1995). "Што ведаць, чым ганарыцца" [What to know, what to be proud of]. In Цітоў, Анатоль (ed.). "Пагоня" ў сэрцы тваім і маім (in Belarusian). Мінск: Хата. p. 24. ISBN 9856007224.