Professor of the Kazan Theological Academy I.F. Grigoriev

The present article is the first detailed work devoted to the life and activity of Ivan F. Grigoriev (1872/73 – after 1921), Professor of the Chair of the Holy Scripture of the Old Testament at the Kazan Theological Academy and author of one of the first works on the Old Testament Messianic Studies in Russia. His formation as a researcher occurred during the heyday of academic activity in the Kazan Theological Academy, and the formation of the Old Testament Exegetics school there, led by Pavel Yungerov. The article is the first to characterize the Russian Biblicist’s teaching activity on the basis of archival documents. It also eliminates some inaccuracies found in the reference bibliographic literature connected with the name of Ivan F. Grigoriev.