FROM THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN SINOLOGY: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SCHOOL OF CHINESE AND MANCHURIAN LANGUAGES BY THE COLLEGE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (1798 1801)
The article deals with the aspect of the Russian Sinology history concerning the study of Chinese and Manchu languages in Russia in the XVIII century and the establishment in 1798 of the school for educating students with the knowledge of these languages by the College of Foreign Affairs. Although information about the school is already known, it seems necessary to expand it as well as to correct a number of inaccuracies still existing in the national historiography