12 Facts About Victor Grigorovich

Victor Ivanovich Grigorovich was a Russian Slavist, folklorist, literary critic, historian and journalist, one of the originators of Slavic studies in the Russian empire.

Victor Grigorovich was born on 10 April 1815, in Balta, today Ukraine, where his father served.

Victor Grigorovich studied in Balta and Uman at the Basilian School, later enrolling at Kharkov University.

In 1839, Grigorovich was invited to Kazan University to the newly opened department of Slavic languages.

Victor Grigorovich then traveled abroad, and upon his return, he passed his master's exam and published his dissertation titled "Experience in the Presentation of Slavic Literature in its More Important Eras".

From 1842 through 1863, Victor Grigorovich was a professor at the department of Slavic literature at the University of Kazan.

Victor Grigorovich was one of the first scholars to study the archaeology, ethnography and history of the South Slavs Between 1844 and 1847, he made a two-and-a-half year tour through the Ottoman Balkans, where he collected a lot of works of South Slavic and Church Slavonic literature.

Victor Grigorovich drew extensively upon some Byzantine sources for studying the history of the Balkan Slavs in several works.

Victor Grigorovich published the collection of his Slavic study in "Outline of a Journey through European Turkey".

Victor Grigorovich's book was published in the Scientific notes of Kazan University in 1848, helping the Russian public to get to know the South Slavic peoples better.

Victor Grigorovich returned to Kazan, and from 1854 to 1856, in addition to the university, he taught Slavic paleography at the Kazan Theological Seminary.

In 1876, Victor Grigorovich resigned and moved to Elizavetgrad, from where he was planning to make excursions to all parts of southern Russia, but on 19 December 1876 he suddenly died.