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Aleksei Musin-Pushkin
Aleksei Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin (1744 — 1817), count since 1797, statesman, historian and art colector. Musin-Pushkin is credited with discovering in Yaroslavl the manuscript The Tale of Igor's Campaign. His vast collection of antiquities also included the Laurentian Codex of the Russian Primary Chronicle and the earliest MSS of Zadonshchina.
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