Alexander Khristoforovich Vostokov was a Russian philologist and poet. He was among the first significant scholars of Russian verse and versification, as well as one of the founders of comparative Slavic linguistics in Russia.
- Occupation
- linguist, poet, dialectologist, translator
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- March 16, 1781, 1781
- Died
- February 8, 1864, 1864
