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Alexander Afanasyev

Died in 1871

Alexander Afanasyev (1826-1871), born in Bogucharsk, in the Voronezh governorate, studied law at the University of Moscow and then worked at the Moscow archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A collection of popular legends that he published in 1860, in which saints rubbed shoulders with pagan beliefs, caused a scandal; he had to leave the archives in 1862 and sold his library to live. From 1865 to 1869 he published a three-volume study of the ancient beliefs of the Slavs. Suffering from tuberculosis, he died in Moscow in 1871.

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