Ivan Zakharov
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Ivan Ilyich Zakharov (; 1816–1885) was a Russian
diplomat A diplomat (from ; romanization, romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state (polity), state, International organization, intergovernmental, or Non-governmental organization, nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one ...
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 thro ...
in China he prepared the
Treaty of Kulja The Treaty of Kulja (also spelled Kuldja; ; ) was a treaty between Qing dynasty, Qing China and the Russian Empire, signed in 1851, opening Kulja (Huiyuan, Xinjiang, Huiyuan and later Yining, Ningyuan) and Tacheng, Chuguchak to Sino-Russian trade. ...
(1851) and helped delineate the Russo-Chinese borders in 1864. Zakharov ended his career as Professor of Manchu Philology at the
Saint Petersburg Imperial University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBGU; ) is a public university, public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great, the uni ...
. 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 peoples, Tungusic East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized Ethnic minorities in China, ethnic minority in China and the people from wh ...
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 Scholars from the Russian Empire Sinologists Manchurologists Saint Petersburg Theological Academy alumni {{russia-linguist-stub