Alexander Semyonovich Shishkov ( - , Saint Petersburg

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) was a Russia

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n statesman, writer, and admiral

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Shishkov was notorious for his proto-Slavophile

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 sentiments. His aversion to loans from other languages was much ridiculed in the liberal press. He was the President of the Russian Academy

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 and People's Education Minister. Shishkov published The Trilingual Naval Dictionary, Russia's first dictionary of Russian and foreign naval terms. He was an influence on the young Sergei Aksakov

Sergei Aksakov

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