Alexander N. Aksakof

Alexandr Nikolayevich Aksakov (Russian Cyrillic: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Акса́ков; May 27, 1832 - January 4, 1903), also known as Alexander Aksakof, was a Russian civil servant, employed by the Tsarist interior ministry and various other government departments for twenty-seven years, as well as a writer and translator, including the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, who was closely involved in early Russian and European Spiritualism and the study of parapsychology generally.

Selected Bibliography

 * &mdash; [English: About Heaven, About the World of Spirits and About Hell; translation from the orignal Latin De Caelo et Ejus Mirabilibus et de Inferno Ex Auditis et Visis, 1758.]
 * &mdash; [English: Animist and Spiritism: A Critical Study of Medium Phenomena and Their Explanation by Hypotheses of "Nervous Power", "Hallucination" and "Unconscious"]
 * &mdash; [English: Precursors of Spiritism: Outstanding Cases Arbitrary Mediumistic Appearances From The Last Three Centuries]