Vasilii Evdokimovich Adodurov

He was educated at the Likhuds' school in Novgorod, then at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, Gymnasium and University of the St. Petersburg Academy of sciences. Adjunct in higher mathematics (1733), translator at the Academy. Heroldmeister (1753-1755). He taught Russian to the future Empress Catherine II. President of the Manufaktur-Collegium (1762-1764), curator of Moscow University (1762-1778). Honorable member of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1777). Author of a Russian grammar (1740) and some translations into Russian.