Pyotr Kafarov
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Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov (Пётр Ива́нович Кафа́ров), also known by his monastic name Palladiy (Палла́дий), (1817 – 1878), was an early Russian sinologist.
Kafarov was born in the family of an Orthodox priest. He studied in Kazan seminary and Sankt-Petersbourg Academy, from which was sent to the Russian Orthodox Mission in China.
Like his teacher Ioakinf Bichurin, Palladiy was a Russian Orthodox monk. During his stay in China, he discovered and published many invaluable manuscripts, including <The Secret History of the Mongols>.
More than three decades Archimandrite Palladiy headed the Russian Orthodox mission in China[1] and held ethnographic and linguistic research there.
Kafarov has designed a Cyrillization system for the Chinese language, known as the Palladiy system. This system has remained the basis for official transcription of Chinese personal and geographical names in Russia ever since.
The Chinese-Russian Dictionary composed by Archimandrite Palladiy remains a well-know scientific work even today.[2]
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