Albert Vikentyevich Starchevsky (, born Adalbert-Voytekh Starchevsky, , 28 April 1818,

Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–19 ...

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, — 7 October 1901,

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, Imperial Russia) was a Russian

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and

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of Polish descent. Born in the Ivki village,

, into a Polish family, Starchevsky studied law first at

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, then at

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. He published his first major work (''Foreign Writers' Accounts of Russia'', 1841, followed by the part two of it, ''Historiae Rathenicae Scriptores exteri saeculi XVI'', 1842) while still a student.Albert Starchevsky
at the Dostoyevsky dictionary. - www.fedordostoevsky.ru An authority on

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and

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n languages, he authored numerous books on

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and

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, compiled and edited several important Eastern languages dictionaries, including the Ancient Slavic Language dictionary (1899), as well as the original edition of the Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary, in 1848–1853. Starchevsky edited '' Biblioteka Dlya Chtenya'' (with

Osip Senkovsky Osip Ivanovich Senkovsky (; – ), born Józef-Julian Sękowski, was a Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist and entertainer. Life Senkovsky was born on his mother's estate in Antagotony, located some 30 miles away from Vilna (Vilnius in moder ...

, in the 1850s), '' Syn Otechestva'' (from 1856, for some twenty years, with breaks), then (in 1879–1885) ''Sovremennost'' (Our Times), ''Ulei'' (Beehive), ''Ekho'' (Echo) and ''Rodina'' (Native Land) newspapers.Saitov, Vladimir
Старчевский, Альберт Викентьевич
Saint Petersburg necropol. 1913, Vol. 4.

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Journalists from the Russian Empire Editors from the Russian Empire Literary historians Historians from the Russian Empire People from Kiev Governorate People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent 1818 births 1901 deaths {{Russia-writer-stub