Many outstanding students of Alexeyev, considered the Soviet Union's greatest Sinologist, such as Nevsky, who was fluent in six or seven languages and once wrote a dictionary for the Tsao people of Taiwan, died in prison before reaching 40.
被譽為蘇聯最偉大的漢學家阿歷謝耶夫的多位得意門生，如精研中國哲學、翻譯過易經的休斯基，與精通六、七種語言，還曾為台灣曹族編過字典的涅瓦斯基，都死在獄中；以《中國語法》一書備受肯定的布里瓦諾夫，也遭流放異地而終。