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Vostokov (Востоков) Alexander Khristoforovich
(1781—1864)

Alexander Vostokov was one of the first Russian philologists and the greatest 19th-century authority on the Church Slavonic language. He was born in Arensburg (present-day Estonia) and studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts. As a natural son of Baron von Osten-Sacken, he received the name Osteneck, which he later chose to render into Russian as... More...

Russia, 2001, Aleksander Vostokov