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Russian linguists

50 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Antanas BaranauskasAuthor · BooksAntanas Baranauskas (Antoni Baranowski; 17 January 1835 – 26 November 1902) was a Lithuanian poet, mathematician and Catholic bishop of Sejny.
Antoni Edward OdyniecAuthor · BooksIllustration — Antoni Edward Odyniec. Portrait by Maksymilian Fajans.
Antony PogorelskyAuthor · BooksIllustration — Portrait of Count Alexey Perovsky by Karl Briullov, 1835
Apollo KorzeniowskiAuthor · BooksApollo Korzeniowski (21 February 1820 – 23 May 1869) was a Polish poet, playwright, translator, clandestine political activist, and father of Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad.
Bagrat ShinkubaAuthor · BooksBagrat Uasyl-ipa Shinkuba (12 May 1917 – 25 February 2004) was an Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, linguist and politician.
Denis FonvizinAuthor · BooksDenis Ivanovich Fonvizin (–) was a Russian playwright during the Age of Enlightenment. He was one of the founders of literary comedy in Russia.
Dmitry LikhachovAuthor · BooksDmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev (also spelled Dmitrii Likhachev or Dmitry Likhachov; – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and an inmate of Gulag.
Dmitry Svyatopolk-MirskyAuthor · Books7 June 1939), a Russian political and literary historian who promoted the knowledge and t
Elizaveta PolonskayaAuthor · BooksElizaveta Grigorevna Polonskaya (Елизаве́та Григо́рьевна Поло́нская), born Movshenson
Gavrila DerzhavinAuthor · BooksGavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin (14 July 1743 – 20 July 1816) was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman.
Giorgi LeonidzeAuthor · BooksGiorgi Leonidze (Georgian: გიორგი ლეონიძე; 27 December 1899 – 9 August 1966) was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and literary scholar.
Ippolit BogdanovichAuthor · BooksIppolit Fyodorovich Bogdanovich (Ипполи́т Фёдорович Богдано́вич; –) was a Russian classicist and rococo author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka (1778).
Ivan KrylovAuthor · BooksIvan Andreyevich Krylov (13 February 1769 – 21 November 1844) is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors.
Ivan MartinovAuthor · BooksIvan Ivanovich Martinov (the last name also spelled Martynov; 1771 – 1833 in Saint Peterburg) was a Russian botanist and philologist.
Johannes SemperAuthor · BooksIllustration — Johannes Semper, 1930s
Józef Bohdan ZaleskiAuthor · BooksJózef Bohdan Zaleski (14 February 1802 – 31 March 1886) was a Polish Romantic poet. A friend of Adam Mickiewicz, Zaleski founded the Ukrainian poetic school.
Karl August HermannAuthor · BooksKarl August Hermann (23 September 1851 – 11 January 1909) was an Estonian writer, publicist, linguist and composer.
Kasym TynystanovAuthor · BooksKasym Tynystanov (10 September 1901 – 6 November 1938) was a Kyrgyz linguist, politician and poet.
Maksim BahdanovičAuthor · BooksMaksim Adamavich Bahdanovich (makˈsʲim aˈdamavʲid͡ʐ baɣdaˈnɔvʲit͡ɕ; 9 December 1891 – 25 May 1917) was a Belarusian poet, journalist, translator, literary critic and historian of…
Mikalojus AkelaitisAuthor · BooksMikalojus Akelaitis (Mikołaj Akielewicz, also known by pen-name Juras Varnelis; 1829–1887) was a Lithuanian writer, publicist and amateur linguist, one of the early figures of the…
Mikhail BakhtinAuthor · BooksMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin[1] (mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bɐxˈtʲin; – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and…
Mikhail LomonosovArtist · PaintingsMikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (–) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science.
Mikhail MikhailovAuthor · BooksMikhail Mikhailov was a Russian linguist, poet, journalist, translator and writer (1829–1865). He was born in Ufa and died in Kadaya.
Nahum SokolowAuthor · BooksNahum ben Joseph Samuel Sokolow (Nachum ben Yosef Shmuel Soqolov; 10 January 1859 – 17 May 1936) was a Jewish-Polish writer, translator, and journalist, the fifth President of the World…
Näqi İsänbätAuthor · BooksNäqi İsänbät (tt-Cyrl; Naki Isanbet; December 29, 1899 – September 12, 1992), also anglicized as Nakie Isanbet, was a Tatar-language writer, encyclopaedist, poet, playwright, prosaist,…
Natallia ArsiennievaAuthor · BooksNatallia Alyakseyewna Arsiennieva (20 September 1903 – 25 July 1997) was a Belarusian playwright, poet and translator who authored the lyrics to the hymn "Mahutny Boža" ("Almighty God").
Nikolay Alexandrovich LvovAuthor · BooksNikolay Aleksandrovich Lvov (May 4, 1753 – December 21, 1803) was a Russian artist of the Age of Enlightenment.
Nikolay GnedichAuthor · BooksNikolay Ivanovich Gnedich (Nikolay Ivanovich Gnyedich.ru.vorb.oga; 13 February 1784 – 15 February 1833) was a Ukrainian-born Russian poet and translator best known for his translation of…
Nikolay KaramzinAuthor · BooksNikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin (3 June) was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.
Oleksandr KonyskyiAuthor · BooksOleksandr Yakovych Konysky (18 August 1836 – 12 December 1900) was a Ukrainian interpreter, writer, lexicographer, pedagogue, poet, and civil activist of liberal direction.
Pyotr VyazemskyAuthor · BooksPrince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky (23 July 1792 – 22 November 1878) was a Russian poet and a leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry.
Roman JakobsonAuthor · BooksRoman Osipovich Jakobson (born Roman Iosel-Berovich Yakobson; 10 October [O.S. 28 September] 1896 – 18 July 1982) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.
Samuel LindeAuthor · BooksIllustration — Samuel Linde
Samuil MarshakAuthor · BooksSamuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Marchak) (3 November 18874 July 1964) was a Soviet writer of Belarusian Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and…
Uładzimir ŽyłkaAuthor · BooksUladzimir Zhylka (27 May 1900, in Makaszy near Nesvizh, Russian Empire – 1 March 1933) was a Belarusian poet.
Villem Grünthal-RidalaAuthor · BooksVillem Grünthal-Ridala, born Wilhelm Grünthal (30 May 1885 in Kuivastu, Muhu, Kreis Ösel, Governorate of Livonia – 16 January 1942 in Helsinki, Finland) was an Estonian poet, translator,…
Vladimir BogorazAuthor · BooksVladimir Germanovich Bogoraz (Russian: Влади́мир Ге́рманович Богора́з), born Natan Mendelevich Bogoraz (Russian: Ната́н Ме́нделевич Богора́з) and used the literary pseudonym N. A.
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Vladimir ProppAuthor · BooksVladimir Yakovlevich Propp (29 April 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Russian and Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify…
Władysław SyrokomlaAuthor · BooksLudwik Władysław Franciszek Kondratowicz (29 September 1823 – 15 September 1862), better known as Władysław Syrokomla (Vladislovas Sirokomlė), was a Polish–Lithuanian poet, writer and…
Yakiv HolovatskyAuthor · BooksYakiv Holovatsky (Yakov Golovatsky; 17 October 1814 – 13 May 1888) was a Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, poet and leader of…
Yakov KnyazhninAuthor · BooksYakov Borisovich Knyazhnin (November 3, 1742 or 1740, Pskov – January 1, 1791, St. Petersburg) was a Russian writer.
Yekaterina DashkovaAuthor · BooksPrincess Yekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (born Countess Vorontsova; 28 March 1743 – 15 January 1810)Though her memoirs list her birth date as 1744, they are footnoted as a "slip of the pen".

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