Kirill Vasilievich Chistov (Russian: Кирилл Васильевич Чистов; 20 November 1919 – 2007), also credited as K.V.
Kirill Vasilievich Chistov was born in Detskoe Selo, Russian SFSR on 20 November 1919.
As a child, Chistov attended a school from which Nikolay Gumilyov graduated, and which was once directed by Innokenty Annensky.
After secondary school, he attended Leningrad State University and studied under Dmitry Konstantinovich Zelenin and Mark Azadovsky.
[1] Chistov was an ethnologist who specialized in Slavic folklore, and was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.