Kozma Terentyevich Soldatyonkov (russian: Козьма Терентьевич Солдатёнков; 22 October 1818 in

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– 1 June 1901 in

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and a renowned

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.Солдатёнков, Кузьма Терентьевич
at Moscow. The Encyclopedian Dictionary // Москва. Энциклопедический справочник. — М.: Большая Российская Энциклопедия. 1992. In 1865 the Soldatyonkov Publishing house was launched. Among its seminal publications were the Complete Works by

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Konstantin Kavelin Konstantin Dmitrievich Kavelin (russian: Константи́н Дми́триевич Каве́лин; November 4, 1818 – May 5, 1885) was a Russian historian, jurist, and sociologist, sometimes called the chief architect of early Russian libe ...

, ''Russian Fairytales'' by

Alexander Afanasyev Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Afanasief, Afanasiev or Afanas'ev, russian: link=no, Александр Николаевич Афанасьев) ( — ) was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer who published nearly 600 Russian fairy and folk ta ...

, the translations of ''Allgemeine Weltgeschichte'' by Georg Weber, ''The American Commonwealth'' by James Bryce, ''

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, ''The History of Scandinavian Literature'' by Frederik Horn (translated by

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, as well as 11 issues of the Economist's Library (edited by Mitrofan Shchepkin) featuring books by

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where he had talks with

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. Soldatyonkov bequeathed his library (8 thousand books and 15 thousand journals) and art collection (258 paintings, including the best known works by

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, Alexander Ivanov,

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Pavel Fedotov Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov (Russian: Павел Андреевич Федотов; 4 July 1815 - 26 November 1852) was an amateur Russian painter. He was only 37 years old when he died in a mental clinic. He has been compared to William Hogarth. ...

, as well as 17 sculptures) to the

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. After 1924 they were shared between the

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. Part of Soldatyonkov's capital (2 million

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s) went, according to his will, to the construction of the hospital for the poor, later to be known as the Botkin Clinic.Солдатенковская больница
The Soldatyonkov Clinic. ''

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