Nikolai Savvich Tikhonravov (Russian: Николай Саввич Тихонравов; 15 October 1832 – 9 December 1893) was a Russian philologist and historian of Russian literature. Born in Kaluga Governorate to a doctor's family, he received secondary education at the Moscow's Third Gymnasium and, while still an 18-year old Pedagogical Institute student, debuted as published author in Moskvityanin with an essay called "Gaius Valerius Catullus and his Works". Among the scholars impressed by it was Mikhail Pogodin who insisted upon his transfer to Moscow University where in 1857, after graduation, Tikhonravov started to read Russian literature.