PYOTR ALEXEYEVICH BESSONOV Folklorist, ethnographer and literary historian; (b. Moscow, 1828 – d. Kharkov, 22 February/6 March 1898)

University professor (Kharkov)

Membership of Society Of Serbian Letters (SSL): corresponding member from 13 January 1863

Membership of Serbian Learned Society (SLS): corresponding member appointed on 29 July 1864

Membership of Serbian Royal Academy (SRA): honorary member from 15 November 1892

Biographies, bibliographies: Hr E 2 (S. Ivšić). − OSN 3 (Anonymous). – ЭС 3 (Anonymous). – Булахов 1, 25–26. − История Славянской Филологiи, 509–511 (В. Ягичъ). – SDR, 69–71 (M. V. Nikulina).