Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov, was a minor Russian poet and literary critic, who rose to become the dean of the Saint Petersburg University (1840–61), a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg, and is the oldest and one of the largest universities in which country/nation?
Pyotr Pletnyov: Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov (Russian: Пётр Александрович Плетнёв ; August 21 [O.S. August 10] 1792 , Tebleshi, Tver Governorate — January 10 1866 [O.S. December 29, 1865] ) was a minor Russian poet and literary critic, who rose to become the dean of the Saint Petersburg University (1840–61) and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1841). Saint Petersburg State University:  It is the oldest and one of the largest universities in Russia.
Russia