Name

Dmitrii Nikolaevich Boguslavskii

Original name

Дмитрий Николаевич Богуславский

Main activity

Military officer

Secondary activity

Translator

Title

Name variations

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Education place

Saint Petersburg

Education institution

Mikhailovskoe Artillery Academy, Saint Petersburg University

Activity place

Istanbul, Saint Petersburg

Activity institution

Russian embassy in Constantinople, Ministry of War of the Russian Empire

Activity start date

1862

Activity end date

1870

Place of birth

Date of birth

1826

Place of death

Date of death

1893

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/8N8N9JV3/tags/19th%20c.%20Russian%20Qur'an%20Boguslavskii/collection

Descriptive card

Dmitrii Nikolaevich Boguslavskii (1826 - 1893) was a Russian military officer, diplomat, and translator. In 1846 he graduated from the Mikhailovskoe Artillery Academy and for some time attended courses at the Faculty of Oriental Languages at St. Petersburg University, where he studied Arabic and Turkish. In 1862-1870, Boguslavskii worked as a translator at the Russian embassy in Constantinople. There he began working on the translation of the Qur'an into Russian. His translation is considered to be among the first ones produced from the Arabic source text; however, the manuscript remained unstudied and thus unpublished for many years after Boguslavskii's death.

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina