A researcher at the Gorki Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Riftin, an expert on classical Chinese, has become that academy's first correspondent member. He has spent great energy delving into Chinese folk literature, Chinese classical novels and the culture of Chinese Muslims and Mongolians.
李福清，俄羅斯科學院高爾基世界文學研究所研究員，他以古典漢學研究，成為俄羅斯第一位科學院通訊院士，在中國民間文學章回小說與回、蒙民族文學的研究上，付出相當心力。