Sergei Volchkov (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Sergei Savvich Volchkov (Russian: Сергей Саввич Волчков; 1707–1773) was a Russian printer, lexicographer, translator.

Volchkov made the first major Russian translations of Baltasar Gracian and Montaigne, and was assigned to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1736.

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