Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov

Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov ( ПётрИва́новичКафа́ров ), also known of its monastic name Palladiy ( Палла́дий ), (18171878), was a Russian sinologist .

Like its professor Ioakinf Bichurin, Palladiy was an orthodoxe monk. During its stay in China, he discovered and published many new manuscripts, of which the secret Histoire of the Mongols .

Kafarov conceived a system of Cyrillisation for the Chinese Langue (known henceforth under the term of system Palladiy ) and is the official system of transcription of Chinese in Russia.

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