Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev (Russian: Василий Михайлович Алексеев, January 14 [O.S. January 2] 1881, Saint Petersburg—May 12, 1951, ibidem) was an eminent Soviet sinologist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1902 he finished the Saint Petersburg University and became a professor. First he worked in the British Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Museum für Völkerkunde, Musée Guimet etc. Alekseyev has translated the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. In 1958 he also published a collection Kitayskaya klassicheskaya proza (The Chinese Classical Prose).

[edit] Notable works

• Lisyi chary (The Fox Charms, 1922)
• Monakhi volshebniki (The Wizard Monks, 1923)
• Rasskazy o lyudyakh neobychainykh (The Extraordinary Men Tails, 1937)

[edit] External links

(Russian) Profile

[edit] References

• GSE