斯帕法里系俄国早期来华的重要使臣之一,但他并非俄罗斯人,他的祖先是希腊人,其出生地曾是罗马尼亚公国的一部分。斯帕法里少年时游学于奥斯曼帝国的君士坦丁堡和意大利的帕多瓦,青年时混迹于欧洲几国的宫廷。到俄国外务衙门供职后被沙皇选中率团出使中国,因而在早期中俄关系史上占有重要一席。他返回莫斯科后,向外务衙门呈交了四部关于中国的重要书稿,几个世纪以来在欧洲以各种文字广为流传,产生了重要影响。 Sparfari was one of the most important envoys to Russia in his early years in China, but he was not a Russian. His ancestor was a Greek and his birthplace was part of the Roman Duchy. Spaafari adolescents traveled to Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and to Padua in Italy, where young men fell to the courts of several European countries. After serving in the Russian Foreign Affairs Yamen, the tsar was selected by the tsar to lead China to make an appointment, thus occupying an important place in the history of early Sino-Russian relations. After returning to Moscow, he submitted four important manuscripts on China to the Foreign Affairs Agency, which have been widely circulated in Europe for centuries and have had a significant impact.