Dmitrii Pavlovich Tsitsianov

He was a descendant of an ancient Georgian noble family. From 1739 he attended lectures on physics, law, ethics and mathematical geography at the Gymnasium of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He learned German, French and Latin. Then he entered the Knight's Academy (the future Land Noble Cadet Corps). In 1742 he was appointed a member of the Military Collegium. In 1757 his textbook “A brief mathematical explanation of land surveying” was published.  After his death in Tambov, the Free Printing House (Vol’naia tipografiia) published his translation (from French) of a part of "General French History" by Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe, entitled “Istoriia korolia Genrikha Velikogo” ("History of King Henry the Great...").