Aleksei Musin-Pushkin

Aleksei Musin-Pushkin.

Aleksei Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin (1744 — 1817), (also spelled Aleksei Ivanovich Mussin-Pushkin) count since 1797, statesman, historian and art collector. Musin-Pushkin is credited with discovering in Yaroslavl the manuscript The Tale of Igor's Campaign. His vast collection of antiquities also included the Laurentian Codex of the Russian Primary Chronicle and the earliest manuscripts of Zadonshchina.

See also

• List of Russian historians

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Name	Musin-Pushkin, Aleksei Ivanovich
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Date of birth	1744
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Date of death	1817
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