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How did Russians sometimes refer to Georg Anton Schäffer?

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Georg Anton Schäffer was a German naturalist who traveled and explored the Russian Empire in the 1770s and 1780s. He published his findings in a five-volume work called "Description of the Natural History of the Russian Empire". Russians sometimes referred to him as Yegor Nikolayevich, which is his name in Russian.