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Date transcribed2011-05-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Lebedeff    
First Name(s)  Herasim    
Year of Birth  1749    
Year of Death  1815?    
Entry  A Russian : said to be a Ukraine peasant : took part in a Russian Embassy to Naples, 1775 : visited Paris and London : left England, 1785, apparently as a bandmaster, for Madras : stayed there 2 years : to Calcutta in Aug. 1787 : there met with a Pandit who taught him Sanskrit, Bengali, Hindustani (the mixed Indian dialect, as he called it) : built, with Government permission, an Indian theatre at Calcutta, 1795 : translated two English plays (The Disguise and Love is the Best Doctor) into Bengali : the former was publicly performed in Nov. 1795, and March, 1796, with great applause (according to its author) : he then became theatrical manager to the Great Mogul and finally returned to England, 1801, after more than 20 years in the East. In London he published his Hindustani grammar {Grammar of the Pure and Mixed East Indian Dialects, arranged, according to the Brahmenian System of the Shamscrit Language), 1801, and made the acquaintance of Woronzow, the Russian Ambassador, who sent him to Russia. He was employed in the Russian Foreign Office and given a large subvention towards founding at St. Petersburg the "    
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