Anton Alekseevich Barsov

Son of the director of the Moscow Synod typography. He studied at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, then at the University of St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Master of Philosophy and Liberal Arts (1753), he taught mathematics at the University in St Petersburg. Professor of Mathematics at Moscow University (1755), full professor in the Department of Eloquence (1761), he taught courses in grammar, rhetoric and poetry. He was a secretary of the Free Russian Assembly (Vol’noe rossiiskoe sobranie) and contributed to the Dictionary of the Russian Academy, edited the newspaper “Moskovskie vedomosti” (1756-1765). In 1770-1780s he was a censor for books printed in the typography of Moscow University. He is the author of “Kratkie pravila rossiiskoi grammatiki” ("Brief Rules of Russian Grammar") (1771) and “Rossiiskaia grammatika” ("Russian Grammar") (published in 1981).