High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vladimir Nicolayevich Beneshevich (Russian: , 1884 1938) was a scholar of Byzantine history and canon law, and a philologer and paleographer of the manuscripts in that sphere. Beneshevich was a corresponding-member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1914, of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1924, and of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and of the Strassburg Academy of Sciences from 1929. Beneshevich was executed by the Soviet regime in 1938, and is among the Eastern Orthodox Church's "New Martyrs".