In 1907, he travelled along with Édouard Chavannes through several Chinese provinces, describing ancient sculptural monuments previously unknown to international scholarship, in particular the Song monuments of Henan and Tang monuments of Shaanxi.[1] ln addition to his Professorship, Alexeev became the Curator and Senior Researcher at the Asiatic Museum. In that role, he contributed a paper on Chinese folklore to a 1918 Museum symposium, published by its parent group, the Russian Academy of Sciences. Alexeev's situation at this time, though perilous like everybody else's, had great potential, which he quickly proceeded to realize. His position at the museum gave him a realia basis: he had custody of artifacts for the study of Chinese popular tradition, including a large trove of Dunhwang documents brought back from a Russian expedition of 1914–1915. In 1919, Alexeev became associate editor, and chief of the Eastern division, of the newly founded Publishing House for World Literature. This provided a publishing outlet. Under his direction, the museum's Sinological library was expanded, catalogued, and systematically employed in research, by a team of young persons Alexeev gradually gathered around him, among them the brilliant Shchutsky.[2]
Work
Alekseyev has produced an acclaimed translation of the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. The first volume was published in 1922 under the title Fox's Wiles. According to Tatyana Tolstaya, "academician Alekseyev has found a special way of selecting and connecting Russian words which creates a distinctive brand of the Russian language, the one with a unique crystal grid, so to speak. The substance has not changed but has obtained new properties. While reading his texts, you get an illusion of reading a text in Chinese".[3] Alekseyev's translations from the World War II era were collected as The Chinese Classical Prose (Китайская классическая проза) in 1958.
Notable works
Lisyi chary (Fox's Wiles, 1922)
Monakhi volshebniki (The Wizard Monks, 1923)
Kitayskaya ieroglificheskaya pis'mennost' i ee latinizatsiya (The Chinese Character Script and Its Romanization, 1932)
Rasskazy o lyudyakh neobychainykh (Stories About Extraordinary People, 1937)
References
^Victor Segalen, "Chine. La grande statuaire", and "Les origines de la statuaire en Chine", pp. 6-7. Segalen, and some other French sources, give V.M. Alexyev (Alexeieff) unlikely initials "J.X."; this is probably a typo resulting from transcribing a handwritten text.[according to whom?]
vasily, mikhaylovich, alekseyev, vasiliy, mikhaylovich, alekseyev, russian, Василий, Михайлович, Алексеев, january, january, 1881, saint, petersburg, 1951, leningrad, ibidem, eminent, soviet, sinologist, member, soviet, academy, sciences, 1902, graduated, from. Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev Russian Vasilij Mihajlovich Alekseev January 14 O S January 2 1881 Saint Petersburg May 12 1951 Leningrad ibidem was an eminent Soviet sinologist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences In 1902 he graduated from the Saint Petersburg University and became a professor He also worked in the British Museum Bibliotheque nationale de France Museum fur Volkerkunde Musee Guimet etc Contents 1 Life 2 Work 3 Notable works 4 ReferencesLife EditIn 1907 he travelled along with Edouard Chavannes through several Chinese provinces describing ancient sculptural monuments previously unknown to international scholarship in particular the Song monuments of Henan and Tang monuments of Shaanxi 1 ln addition to his Professorship Alexeev became the Curator and Senior Researcher at the Asiatic Museum In that role he contributed a paper on Chinese folklore to a 1918 Museum symposium published by its parent group the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexeev s situation at this time though perilous like everybody else s had great potential which he quickly proceeded to realize His position at the museum gave him a realia basis he had custody of artifacts for the study of Chinese popular tradition including a large trove of Dunhwang documents brought back from a Russian expedition of 1914 1915 In 1919 Alexeev became associate editor and chief of the Eastern division of the newly founded Publishing House for World Literature This provided a publishing outlet Under his direction the museum s Sinological library was expanded catalogued and systematically employed in research by a team of young persons Alexeev gradually gathered around him among them the brilliant Shchutsky 2 Work EditAlekseyev has produced an acclaimed translation of the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio The first volume was published in 1922 under the title Fox s Wiles According to Tatyana Tolstaya academician Alekseyev has found a special way of selecting and connecting Russian words which creates a distinctive brand of the Russian language the one with a unique crystal grid so to speak The substance has not changed but has obtained new properties While reading his texts you get an illusion of reading a text in Chinese 3 Alekseyev s translations from the World War II era were collected as The Chinese Classical Prose Kitajskaya klassicheskaya proza in 1958 Notable works EditLisyi chary Fox s Wiles 1922 Monakhi volshebniki The Wizard Monks 1923 Kitayskaya ieroglificheskaya pis mennost i ee latinizatsiya The Chinese Character Script and Its Romanization 1932 Rasskazy o lyudyakh neobychainykh Stories About Extraordinary People 1937 References Edit Victor Segalen Chine La grande statuaire and Les origines de la statuaire en Chine pp 6 7 Segalen and some other French sources give V M Alexyev Alexeieff unlikely initials J X this is probably a typo resulting from transcribing a handwritten text according to whom Sinological Profiles Vasili Alexeev Tolstaya Tatyana August 2018 Izyum sbornik ISBN 9785457060104 This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Vasily Mikhaylovich Alekseyev news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Vasily Mikhaylovich Alekseyev amp oldid 1131705278, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
