Mikhail Shevelev

Mikhail Grigoryevich Shevelev (Russian: Михаил Григорьевич Шевелёв; 25 August 1844 – 8 November 1903) was a Russian Empire businessman, tea-trader, founder of the Russia Empire's first shipping company and a Sinologist who lived and worked in the Vladivostok region.

He took an interest in science and was also an expert in Chinese after graduating from a school of translators (founded by N.Y. Bichurin[1]) in Kyakhta in 1861.

With his language abilities, he was appointed as a translator to the Russian Orthodox mission to China.

[3] The operations ended in 1883[4] possibly due to increasing British influence in tea export.

A daughter, Margarita, married the famous Russian tiger hunter George Yankovsky.