Here's one of the resources I came across. I only perused it briefly, but it mentions a Father Yakinf returning to St Petersburg and translating "the Confucian

Here's one of the resources I came across. I only perused it briefly, but it mentions a Father Yakinf returning to St Petersburg and translating "the Confucian classic Four Books (Sishu)" among other things. Hopefully this link works for you and isn't dependent on local cookies or something. But the book is: China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922: To the Ends of the Orient By Susanna Soojung Lim https://books.google.com/books?id=RQldRM5wlfcC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=first+translation+of+confucius+to+russian&source=bl&ots=LtQpLXmcld&sig=OdJHY-2EiRy6idCek-VOpAmU32U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixp-TRztbSAhVM34MKHQ9UCNYQ6AEILzAE#v=onepage&q=first%20translation%20of%20confucius%20to%20russian&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=RQldRM5wlfcC&pg=PA65&lpg=P...