Vasily Tatishchev

Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev, Russian language: Василий Татищев (1686-1750) was a prominent Russian historian, philosopher and ethnographer.

Tatishchev's magnum opus was Russian History Dating Back to the Most Ancient Times. He also compiled the first encyclopedic dictionary of the Russian language.

Tatishchev participated in the 1700-1721 Great Northern War with Sweden. After the war, on the order of Tsar Peter the Great, Tatishchev was sent to the Urals region, where he founded the city of Yekaterinburg.

External links

• Vasili Tatishchev of General History and Russian History (http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Tatish.html)
• History of Perm (http://www.permonline.ru/english/perm/history.htm)

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