Vladimir Ivanovich Saitov was a Russian bibliographer and literary historian, secretary of the Imperial Russian Historical Society (1916). Actual State Councilor (1916).

Leonid Nikolaevich Maikov was a prominent researcher in the history of Russian literature, a full member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, president of the Russian Bibliological Society, Privy Councillor; the son of the painter Nikolay Maykov, the younger brother of Apollon, Valerian and Vladimir Maykov.