Vasilii Bogorodskii

He studied at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, from where he was assigned to the Philological Seminary of the Learned Society of Friends (“Druzheskoe uchenoe obshchestvo”), organized by Nikolai Novikov at the University of Moscow. In 1787 his collection "Discovery of entertaining tricks" (“Otkrytie uveselitelnykh khitrostei”) was printed (2nd edition, 1792). He published books, popularizing basic scientific knowledge. Author of "New Russian Alphabet" (“Novaia rossiiskaia azbuka”) (1798).