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Karion Istomin
Russian poet (d. 1717) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karion Istomin (Russian: Карион Истомин; late 1640s – 1717)[1] was a Russian poet, translator, and one of the first Russian enlighteners. He was a student of Sylvester Medvedev.
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