Maksimov Sergey (1831–1901) – ethnographer, folklorist, writer.
In 1850, after the Kostroma gymnasium, he enrolled to the Medical Faculty of the Moscow University. In 1852, he moved to St. Petersburg and transferred to the Medical and Surgery Academy.
In 1855, he made his first ethnographical travel through the Central Russia.
Later, he traveled to various regions of the country on the order of the Navy Ministry and compiled reports, wrote articles and fiction stories, which were published in numerous magazines: ‘Morskoy sbornik’ (Navy Collection), ‘Biblioteka dlya chteniya’ (Library for reading), ‘Syn Otechestva’ (Son of the Motherland), ‘Otechestvennye zapiski’ (Native Notes); later they were gathered in several books.
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