As I begin my report, I think I should make some explanations first. This is why Russia knew very little about Chinese classical poetry before the twentieth century. At that time, scholars mainly focused on the study of the Four Books, the Five Classics, Taoist and Buddhist classics. Among poems, the only one that I know more or less about is the Book of Songs. Even so, the full translation of the Book of Songs was hidden in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, shelved and never published. Of course, Sinologists are no strangers to the names of great poets of the Tang Dynasty. However, such a large number of poems and their difficulty in understanding discouraged them.
The most famous sinologist and academician of the Academy of Sciences in the 19th century B.