Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev
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.
In 1907, he travelled along with Édouard Chavannes through several Chinese provinces, describing ancient sculptural monuments previously unknown to international scholarship, in particular the Song monuments of Henan and Tang monuments of Shaanxi.[1]
Alekseyev has translated the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. In 1958 he also published a collection Kitayskaya klassicheskaya proza (The Chinese Classical Prose).
Notable works
- Lisyi chary (The Fox Charms, 1922)
- Monakhi volshebniki (The Wizard Monks, 1923)
- Kitayskaya ieroglificheskaya pis'mennost' i ee latinizatsiya (The Chinese Character Script and Its Romanization, 1932)
- Rasskazy o lyudyakh neobychainykh (Stories About Extraordinary People, 1937)
Notes
- ↑ Victor Segalen, "Chine. La grande statuaire", and "Les origines de la statuaire en Chine", pp. 6-7. Segalen, and some other French sources, give V.M. Alexyev (Alexeieff) unlikely initials "J.X."; this is probably a typo resulting from transcribing a handwritten text.
References
External links
(Russian) Profile