Dovnar-Zapolskii, M. V.

An important Belorusian scholar, Dovnar-Zapolskii analyzed all archeological corners of the NW region through Ukraine, and published inexhaustibly. He worked for the IMAO as secretary of its Archeographical Commission and edited numerous of its publications.

Artemev, A. I.

Artemev is difficult to classify because he spent many years working on Kazan’s history. He was a great bibliographer and statistician, and Nikolai Miliutin made him a member of the the Emancipation Commission. Wounded during a near ship wreck when in 1868 he was touring the Caucasus, Athens, and the Mediterranean with Grand Prince Alexei Alexandrovich, he died from it six years later.

Episkop Amfikholii

Born P. I. Kazanskii, Episkop (Bishop) Amfikholii was one of the most prominent of archeologists among the clergy, a specialist in paleography, a student of monastical manuscripts, inluding Greek ones. Moreover, he developed a talent for illustration, designing lithographs of manuscripts. An honored member of the Moscow Society of Lovers of Spiritual Enlightenment, the IRAO awarded him a gold medal in 1880. He was also associated with New Jerusalem and Rostov.