Pavel Mikhailovich Stroyev (Павел Михайлович Строев; 1796–1876) was a Russian

paleographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US) (ultimately from , , 'old', and , , 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of historical writing systems. It encompasses the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dati ...

who brought to light some of the most important sources of Russian history, including the

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, the homilies of St. Cyril of Turov, the Slavic text of

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, and of 1073.''The Peasant in 19th-century Russia'' (ed. by W. S. Vucinich). Stanford University Press, 1968. Pages 220-221. He worked under the auspices of Count

Nikolai Rumyantsev Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev (; 3 April 1754 – 3 January 1826), born in Saint Petersburg, was Russia's Foreign Minister and Chancellor of the Russian Empire in the run-up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1808–12). He was the son of ...

hand in hand with until the latter went insane in 1825. In 1817 and 1818 Stroev and Kalaidovich wandered from monastery to monastery around

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in search of ancient manuscripts. They published several texts of international treaties and other historical documents from the Moscow archive in 1819–21. Seven years later Stroyev launched the first of his "

archaeographic expeditions The Archaeographic Commission (Археографическая комиссия) was set up in St. Petersburg in 1834 by Platon Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, Nikolay Ustryalov, and Pavel Stroyev with the aim of publishing historical and ethnographic mat ...

" that led him through no less than 14 provinces in 1829-34 and resulted in the publication of more than 3000 historical documents.The Russian Humanitarian Dictionary
/ref> He was named a corresponding member of the

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in 1826 and a full member in 1849. After the Tsar bought the immense manuscript collection of Count Fyodor Andreyevich Tolstoy in 1830, it was Stroyev who prepared it for publication.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stroyev, Pavel Russian palaeographers Philologists from the Russian Empire 19th-century historians from the Russian Empire Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 1796 births 1876 deaths Imperial Moscow University alumni