Dmitry Gerasimov

Dmitry Gerasimov (c. 1465 – after 1535) was a Russian translator, diplomat and philologist, probably born in Novgorod. After learning Latin and German in Livonia, he served as interpreter on Vasily III's embassies, including the mission to Emperor Maximilian I.

In 1525 Vasily III sent him as envoy to Pope Clement VII in Rome to discuss an anti-Ottoman league. There he described Russia's geography to Paolo Giovio, who compiled the information in a book; Battista Agnese then mapped it, providing a pattern for most sixteenth-century maps of Muscovy.

Gerasimov also translated religious works and Donatus's grammar. Comparing Latin with Church Slavonic, he proposed terms for Slavic grammar and collaborated with Maximus the Greek.