Ignatius Krachkovsky, a Russian orientalist, one of the founders of the School of Russian Orientalism. Born on March 4, 1883 in Vilnius, and died on January 24, 1951 in Leningrad, he had a passion from a young age in studying the views of orientalists and studying the Arabic language. In 1901, he joined the Faculty of Oriental Languages at the University of St. Petersburg, where he began speaking Hebrew and the Abyssinian language, as well as attending Zukovsky's lessons in the Persian and Turkish Tatar languages. He studied the history of the Islamic East at the hands of the Russian historian Barthold, then the general language of Miloransky, and with Antoine Khashab, he trained in the language of the Arabic discourse in a Levantine dialect. And he went to the East and visited Egypt, Syria and Palestine, and he was acquainted with the coffers of his books and acquainted with its scholars and literature, then he returned to his country and was appointed a professor of Arabic and there is an opinion saying that he was the discoverer of the new Arabic literature for the West.