Name

Petr Vasil'evich Posnikov (Sr)

Original name

Пётр Васильевич Посников (старший)

Main activity

Translator

Secondary activity

Diplomat

Title

Name variations

Pyotr Postnikov"

Education place

Moscow, Padua

Education institution

Slavic Greek Latin Academy, University of Padua

Activity place

Saint Petersburg

Activity institution

The Foreign Affairs Chancellery, The Apothecary Chancellery

Activity start date

Activity end date

Place of birth

Date of birth

1670

Place of death

Paris

Date of death

1710

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/8N8N9JV3/tags/1726%20Russian%20Qur'an/collection

Descriptive card

Petr Posnikov, the eldest of the two brothers, served as a diplomat and translator at Russian diplomatic missions in Europe. He was among the first Russians to enter the newly-formed Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy (founded 1685) in Moscow; between 1692 and 1694, he studied medicine at the University of Padua. He is considered as a possible author of the 1726 (not 1716) Qur'an translation into Russian.

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina