Hyacinth (Bichurin)
Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin (Russian: Никита Яковлевич Бичурин; 29 August 1777 – 11 May 1853), better known under his archimandrite monastic name Hyacinth, sometimes Joacinth or Iakinf, was one of the founding fathers of Russian Sinology. He translated many works from Chinese into Russian, which were then translated into other European languages.
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Hyacinth in the 1830s. Portrait by
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| Born | August 29, 1777 Akulevo, Tsivilsky Uyezd, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | May 11, 1853 (aged 75) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
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