Ivan Petrovich Sakharov (russian: Иван Петрович Сахаров, September 10, 1807, Tula,

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, — September 5, 1863, Valdai region,

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, Russian Empire) was a Russian folklorist,

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

archeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and

paleographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...

. In the 1830s and early 1840s Sakharov published several highly popular books, including the ''Russian People's Tales of the Family Lives of Their Ancestors'' (Сказания русского народа о семейной жизни своих предков, 1836, in three volumes), ''Russian People's Journeys Into Foreign Lands'' (Путешествие русских людей в чужие земли, 1837) and ''Russian People's Songs'' (1838—1839, in two volumes). As scholars like

Vladimir Dal Vladimir Ivanovich Dal ( rus, Влади́мир Ива́нович Даль, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ɨˈvanəvʲɪdʑ ˈdalʲ; November 22, 1801 – October 4, 1872) was a noted Russian-language lexicographer, polyglot, Turkologist, and founding me ...

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 ...

and Pyotr Kireevsky entered the Russian literary scene, the scientific quality of Sakharov's research and the authenticity of some of the documents he cited started to be questioned, notably by Apollon Grigoryev and Pyotr Bessonov; later several authors (among them Alexander Pypin, in "Falsifications of the Folklore Manuscripts", 1898) openly accused him of plagiarism and, in some cases, mystifications. Still, Ivan Sakharov was credited (by Brockhaus & Efron) as a pioneer figure in Russian ethnography, whose studies, according to Izmail Sreznevsky, have made "an extraordinary impression upon the ussianeducated society and infused it with great respect for the

Russian folklore Folklore of Russia is folklore of Russians and other ethnic groups of Russia. Russian folklore takes its roots in the pagan beliefs of ancient Slavs and now is represented in the Russian fairy tales. Epic Russian bylinas are also an important ...

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1807 births 1863 deaths People from Tula, Russia People from Tula Governorate Russian ethnographers Russian folklorists {{Russia-writer-stub