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Mar 27, 1744 Moscow, Russia Died on 13 Feb 1817 (aged 72)
Russian historian
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About Aleksei Musin Pushkin
- Aleksei Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin (27 March 1744 — 1817), (also spelled Aleksei Ivanovich Mussin-Pushkin) count since 1797, statesman, historian and art collector.
- Musin-Pushkin is credited with discovering in Yaroslavl the manuscript The Tale of Igor's Campaign.
- His vast collection of antiquities also included the Laurentian Codex of the Russian Primary Chronicle and the earliest manuscripts of Zadonshchina. Musin-Pushkin's entire library was burned in the great Moscow fire of 1812 (during the Napoleonic occupation).
