Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and an inmate of Gulag. During his lifetime, Likhachev was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old Russian language and its literature.
- Occupation
- linguist, historian, translator, literary historian
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union, Russia
- Born
- November 15, 1906, November 28, 1906
- Died
- September 30, 1999
