Terty Ivanovich Filippov | |
Birthname: | Тертий Иванович Филиппов |
Birth Date: | 5 January 1825 |
Birth Place: | Rzhev, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Occupation: | folklorist, journalist, church and state official |
Terty Ivanovich Filippov (Те́ртий Ива́нович Фили́ппов; 5 January 1825 in Rzhev, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire – 12 December 1899 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian folklorist, singer, pedagogue, the Honorary member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. As a journalist, Filippov contributed mostly to Pogodin's Moskvityanin, Katkov's Russky Vestnik and Russkaya Beseda, the magazine he was a co-founder of. In 1857–1864 Filippov served as a Russian Orthodox Church official. In 1889–1899 he was the Chairman of the Russian State Control committee.[1] [2] He was awarded Serbian Order of Saint Sava and Order of the Cross of Takovo.[3]