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Peter Kalifornsky Peter Kalifornsky, self-named ""Петр Калифорнский"" (October 12, 1911 – June 5, 1993), was a self-taught writer and ethnographer of the Dena'ina Athabaskan of Kenai, Alaska, who wrote traditional stories, poems, and language lessons in the Outer Inlet dialect (sometimes called the Kenai dialect) of Dena'ina, a language of the Athabaskan language group. Kalifornsky, a Dena'ina elder, participated in creating the written version of the Dena'ina language, and over 19 years worked to record as many "sukdu" or traditional stories as he could remember, translating them also into English. He also wrote original works in Dena'ina, including a number of autobiographical works. He was the great-grandson of Qadanalchen, who took the name Kalifornsky after working in the Russian American colony of Fort Ross in California, and for whom Kalifornsky, Alaska is named.
Vasily Bilbasov Vasily Alexeyevich Bilbasov (Russian: Василий Алексеевич Бильбасов , 19 June 1838, Poltava, Ukraine, then Russian Empire, — 24 July 1904, Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian historian, editor and publicist, the greatest authority on the rule of Catherine the Great of his time. His magnum opus, the fundamental "History of Catherine the Second", published in 1890, and revealing aspects of the great Russian ruler's life that had been hitherto unknown, caused furore, the second volume of it in 1891 was banned. By 1896, two more volumes of the treatise came out, but it remained unfinished.