Izmail Sreznevsky

His father, Ivan Sreznevsky, was a prolific translator of Latin poetry who taught at the Demidov Lyceum in Yaroslavl before moving to Kharkov University.

He was a notable figure in the Ukrainian literary revival and compiled several multi-volume anthologies of local folklore, including Zaporozhian Antiquities.

[1] In 1839–1842 he undertook a tour through every major library of Central and Eastern Europe with a view toward consulting the oldest extant Slavic manuscripts.

Sreznevsky's pièce de résistance, The Materials for a Dictionary of the Old Russian Language, though incomplete, was published posthumously in three volumes (1893–1903) and was reprinted with an addendum in 1912, 1958, and 1988.

A long list of his students at St. Petersburg University includes Alexander Pypin, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, and Vladimir Lamansky (who published his biography in 1890).