Name

Aleksei Vasil'evich Kolmakov

Original name

Алексей Васильевич Колмаков

Main activity

Poet

Secondary activity

Translator

Title

Name variations

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Education place

Education institution

Activity place

Saint Petersburg

Activity institution

Admiralty Board

Activity start date

1784

Activity end date

1804

Place of birth

Date of birth

Place of death

Date of death

1804

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/8N8N9JV3/tags/1792%20Russian%20Qur'an/collection

Descriptive card

Aleksei Vasil'evich Kolmakov (d. 1804) was a Russian intellectual, poet, and translator. In 1776 to study agronomy, he was sent to Britain, where he mastered English. In 1784, Kolmakov returned to Russia and began serving as a translator at the Admiralty Board in Saint Petersburg. He is the author of literary works, including several odes, and the translator into Russian of 'The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed' by G. Sale.

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina