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Alexander Khristoforovich Vostokov (Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
: ??????´??? ????????´????? ?????´???) ( - ) was one of the first Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n philologists .

He was born in Arensburg, Governorate of Livonia, and studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts
Imperial Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, was opened by Count Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy of the Three Noblest Arts in 1757....
. As a natural son of Baron von Osten-Sacken, he received the name Osteneck, which he later chose to render into Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 as Vostokov (Ost, the German word for "east," translates to vostok in Russian).






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Alexander Khristoforovich Vostokov (Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
: ??????´??? ????????´????? ?????´???) ( - ) was one of the first Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n philologists .

He was born in Arensburg, Governorate of Livonia, and studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts
Imperial Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, was opened by Count Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy of the Three Noblest Arts in 1757....
. As a natural son of Baron von Osten-Sacken, he received the name Osteneck, which he later chose to render into Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 as Vostokov (Ost, the German word for "east," translates to vostok in Russian). He liked to experiment with language and, in one of his poems, introduced the female name Svetlana
Svetlana

Svetlana is a common Russian name, deriving from the Russian word for "light", "clean" or "holy". The name was coined by Alexander Vostokov and popularized by Vasily Zhukovsky in his eponymous ballade, first published in 1813....
, which would gain popularity through Zhukovsky
Vasily Zhukovsky

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s.He is credited with introducing the Romanticism to Russian literature....
's eponymous ballad.

During his lifetime, Vostokov was known as a poet and translator, but it is his innovative studies of versification and comparative Slavonic grammars which proved most influential. In 1815, he joined the staff of the Imperial Public Library, where he discovered the most ancient dated book written in Slavonic vernacular, the so-called Ostromir Gospel
Ostromir Gospel

The Ostromir Gospels is the oldest dated East Slavic book . It was created by deacon Gregory for his patron, Posadnik Ostromir of Novgorod, in 1056 or 1057, probably as a gift for a monastery....
. In 1841, Vostokov was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
.

Vostokov's works on the Church Slavonic language were considered a high watermark of Slavic studies until the appearance of Izmail Sreznevsky
Izmail Sreznevsky

Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevsky was a towering figure in the field of 19th-century Slavic studies.His father, Ivan Sreznevsky, was a prolific translator of Latin poetry who taught at the Demidov Lyceum in Yaroslavl before moving to the Kharkov University....
's comprehensive lexicon in 1893-1903 and garnered him the doctorates honoris causa from the Charles University and University of Tübingen.