Ivan Ilyich Zakharov (russian: Иван Ильич Захаров; 1816 - 1885) was a Russian

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

who worked in the Peking Orthodox Mission between 1839 and 1850. As the first Russian

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states th ...

in China he prepared the

Treaty of Kulja The Treaty of Kulja (also spelled Kuldja) () was an unequal treaty between Qing China and the Russian Empire, signed in 1851, opening Kulja ( Huiyuan and later Ningyuan) and Chuguchak to Sino-Russian trade. Prepared by the first Russian consul t ...

(1851) and helped delineate the Russo-Chinese borders in 1864. Zakharov ended his career as Professor of Manchu Philology at the St. Petersburg Imperial University. Most of his works have never been published. His Russian-Manchu wordbook of 1875 became one of the first Manchu dictionaries available in Europe at the time of its publication. Zakharov's outline of

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636) and Q ...

grammar appeared in 1879 and was reprinted 100 years later by Global Oriental as "an important book that is so rare as to be virtually unobtainable".''Early China, Volume 4''. Society for the Study of Early China (Berkeley, Calif.), 1979. Page 77.

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* 1816 births 1885 deaths Diplomats of the Russian Empire Russian sinologists Manchurologists {{russia-linguist-stub