Alandsky (Ала́ндский), Pavel Ivanovich (1844-1883)

Classical Russian philologist and historian.  The son of a village priest, he was born in the village of Tosno near St. Petersburg. Alandsky graduated from St. Petersburg University in 1870, and studied under such estimeemed historians and thinkers as Mikhail Kutorga and Karl Lugebil.  His field of study was mainly the history and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.  He died in Kiev on October 28, 1883.