Iliia Iakovlevich Greshishchev

Son of a priest. He studied at Tver Theological Seminary, Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, and Moscow University. He was a secretary to the curator of the University Mikhail Kheraskov, then an assistant inspector. In 1808 he had the rank of collegiate assessor. A number of his translations from French are known: the compilation work about Iceland "Curious tidings, or the Abridged history of island Iceland" ("Liubopytnye izvestiia, ili Sokrashchennaia istoriia ob ostrove Islande") by Isaac de La Peyrère (1789), "History of the shipwreck and enslavement of Mr. Brisson <...> with a description of the African steppes from Senegal to Morocco" ("Istoriia o korablekrushenii i poraboshchenii g. Brissona <...> s opisaniem afrikanskikh stepei ot Senegala do Marokka") (1795), "Foundations of Universal Morality" (“Osnovaniia vseobshchego nravoucheniia”) by Élie Bertrand (1796).