Dmitri Bantysh-Kamensky was a Russian statesman and historian who studied under pioneering 18th century historian G. F. Müller He served as Governor of Tobolsk Governorate between March 1825 and 20 July 1828 and then later became Governor of the Vilna Province between May 1836 and 1838. Dmitri Bantysh-Kamensky is considered the first true historian of the Cossacks.