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Yakov Karlovich Grot (Russian: Я́ков Ка́рлович Грот) (1812–1893), was a nineteenth-century Russian philologist of Swedish extraction who worked at the University of Helsinki.
Grot was a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. In his lifetime he gained fame for his translations of German and Scandinavian poetry, his work on the theory of Russian orthography, lexicography, and grammar, and his approach to literary editing and criticism, exemplified in a full edition of the works of Derzhavin (1864–1883). His Russkoye Pravopisaniye (1878, 1885) (Русское правописание, Russian orthography) became the standard textbook of Russian spelling and punctuation until superseded by the decrees of 1917–1918, although his definition of the theoretical foundations remains little changed to this day. Shortly before his death, he assumed the compilation of Academic dictionary of Russian (1891–1923), which, although continued by Aleksey Shakhmatov, was never to be completed. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1858, its chairman since 1884, and its vice-president since 1889. He was appointed Russian-language tutor to the future tsars Alexander II and Alexander III.
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- (Russian)A part of Grot's Russkoye Pravopisaniye, 1885, in the old Russian orthography—Русское правописаніе.
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