Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev

Who was Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev?

Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev was an eminent Soviet sinologist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1902 he finished the Saint Petersburg University and became a professor. First he worked in the British Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Museum für Völkerkunde, Musée Guimet etc.

In 1907, he travelled along with Édouard Chavannes through several Chinese provinces, describing ancient sculptural monuments previously unknown to international scholarship, in particular the Song monuments of Henan and Tang monuments of Shaanxi.

Alekseyev has translated the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. In 1958 he also published a collection Kitayskaya klassicheskaya proza.