Background
Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev was born on October 12, 1789, in Mirakhanovo village, Kostroma province, Russian Federation and died on November 29,1865, in Petrozavodsk. He was from the family of the priest.
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Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev was born on October 12, 1789, in Mirakhanovo village, Kostroma province, Russian Federation and died on November 29,1865, in Petrozavodsk. He was from the family of the priest.
He graduated from the Kostroma Theological School (1806), the St. Petersburg Pedagogical Institute (1810).
Since 1811 in St. Petersburg Pedagogical Institute he taught geography and statistics. A member of the Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (since 1832), headed the statistical committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (1835-1853).