Snegirev Ivan

Snegirev Ivan (1793–1868) – folklorist, ethnographer, historian.

In 1814, he graduated from the Philological Department of the Moscow University. In 1815, he got the Master degree in Philology; since 1816, he was Adjunct, Teacher of Latin language at the Chair of Roman Literature and Antiquities of the Moscow University; in 1826-1835 – Professor of the Moscow University. In 1824-1855, he served as Censor. In 1819, he became Actual Member of the Society for Russian Literature; since 1821 – Librarian of the Society. In 1854, he was elected for Correspondent Member of the Ac. of Sc.

He was a brilliant connoisseur of the Old Russian culture and Moscow antiquities, supervised the restoration works in the Moscow Kremlin. He studied Russian folklore, popular Lubok prints, rites and feasts.

Compositions

Russians in Their Proverbs: Considerations and Research on the Russian Proverbs and Sayings. Books 1-4. Moscow University, 1831‒1834. (in Rus.)
Russian Folk Festivals and Superstitious Rites. Iss. 1‒4. Moscow University, 1837‒1839. (in Rus.)
Lexicon of Laic Writers, National and Foreign, Who Wrote in Russia; an Addition to the Lexicon of Writers of Ecclesiastic Rank, Composed by Metropolitan Eugeny. Moscow University, 1838. (in Rus.)
Russian Folk Proverbs and Parables. Moscow University, 1848. (in Rus.)
On the Lubok Prints of Russian People. Moscow, August Semen Typography, 1844 (2nd publ., add.: The Lubok Prints of Russian People in the Moscow World. Moscow University, 1861).
Russian Antiquity in the Monuments of Ecclesiastic and Civil Architecture / Comp. А. А. Martynov, text by I. М. Snegirev. Moscow, Gotier Typography, 1847–1859. (in Rus.)
Monuments of Ancient Arts in Russia: a Collection of Drawings from Ecclesiastic and Home Utensils, Holy Crosses, Objects of Icon-Painting, Iconostasis; Detailed Images of Separate Parts of Buildings; Decorations, Samples of Furniture, and Other Elements of Old Russian Common-Day Life / text by I. М. Snegirev. Moscow, 1850-1854. (in Rus.)
Memories by I. М. Snegirev // Russkyi arkhiv. 1866, iss. 4, clmn. 513‒562; iss. 5, clmn. 735‒760. (in Rus.)
The Antiquity of the Russian Land: Historical and Archeological Research, Biographies, Scholarly and Literary Correspondence, Notes, and the Diary of memories by I. М. Snegirev. Moscow, 1871. (in Rus.)

Bibliography

Boikova О. F. Ivan Mikhailovich Snegirev: Bio-Bibliographical Index. Moscow, 1994. (in Rus.)

About him

Heustroeva А. N. Letters from I. М. Snegirev to V. G. Anastasevich // Old and New Russia. 1881, vol. XIX. (in Rus.)
Snegirev Ivan Mikhailovich // Encyclopedic Lexicon of Brockhaus and Ephrone, in 86 vol. St. Petersburg, 1890‒1907. (in Rus.)

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