# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elpidifor-barsov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:23:18.820Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elpidifor-barsov"
name: "Elpidifor Barsov"
slug: "elpidifor-barsov"
description: "Elpidifor Vasilyevich Barsov was a Russian literary historian, ethnographer, folklorist, archeologist and philologist, specializing in the ancient Russian written language. Barsov, a member of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences (1873), and Moscow Imperial Archeological society (1874) was the owner of the country's largest palaeographic collection, as well as numerous priceless documents concerning the history of Raskol in Russia and the Old Believers' literature. Barsov published several acclaimed books, including Peter the Great in the Legends of the Northern Krai (1872), The Old Russian Tsars and Princes in the Northern Krai Legends (1877) and The Northern Krai Lamentations (1872–1885), the latter introducing the readership to the previously unknown genre of the regional Russian folklore."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barsov_EV.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1836-11-01"
deathDate: "1917-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.00342
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelpidifor_Wassiljewitsch_Barsow"
    title: "Jelpidifor Wassiljewitsch Barsow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elpidifor_Barsov"
    title: "Elpidifor Barsov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Барсов, Елпидифор Васильевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelpidifor_Barsov"
    title: "Jelpidifor Barsov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%84%D0%BB%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Барсов Єлпідифор Васильович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4078571"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump