Vasily Modestov
Vasily Ivanovich Modestov was a Russian historian, philologist, publicist and translator.
A Saint Petersburg University graduate who lectured at the Odessa, Kazan and Kiev Universities, as well as his alma mater, Modestov was a prominent authority on the history and culture of Ancient Rome, as well as earlier Apennine Peninsula cultures. He contributed to Istorichesky Vestnik, Golos, Nov, Filologicheskoye Obozrenye, as well as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, providing entries on the history and culture of Rome. Modestov translated into Russian semimal works by Tacitus, Horace, Spinoza, as well as the :de:Reallexikon des classischen Alterthums für Gymnasien|Reallexikon des classischen Alterthums für Gymnasien. Among his best-known original works were The History of Ancient Rome and Tacitus and his Work. Historical and Literary Study.
