Pavel Viskovatov

Pavel Alexandrovich Viskovatov was a Russian historian of literature, editor, pedagogue and librettist. The Dorpat University professor of Russian language and literature, Viskovatov devoted himself to re-discovering, compiling, and studying the vast and dispersed Lermontov's legacy. He prepared and in 1891 published in Saint Petersburg the first ever edition of The Works of Mikhail Lermontov. Featured here the first ever comprehensive academic biography written by Viskovatov, has been used as blueprint by all the subsequent Russian biographers ever since.