Aleksey Khovansky (publisher)

Alexey Andreyevich Khovansky (Russian: Алексей Андреевич Хованский; 1814 in Penza – 29 January 1899 in Voronezh) was a publisher of the first Russian scientific linguistic journal Filologicheskie Zapiski.

Many famous Russian and Slavic scholars published their articles and papers in his journal.

A member of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences Fyodor Buslaev said: "Chowanski was not only a publisher of other contributions, but a real editor, that is a specialist who directed, corrected and added the articles of its authors".

[1] The main content of his work was the creation of a "method for smarter, more rational and practical education of the mother tongue".

He called this method "The Living Word": "A lively and fascinating word is a great power that can capture the attention of the audience, the force that moves the hearts and feelings, – one might say – the soul of teaching practice.