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The Historical Herald
''Istorichesky Vestnik'' (russian: Историческій Вѣстникъ, Исторический вестник, History Herald) was a Russian monthly historical and literary magazine published in Saint Petersburg in 1880-1917.Исторический вестник at the History The magazine was founded by the journalist and scholar and[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Shubinsky
Sergey Nikolayevich Shubinsky (russian: Сергей Николаевич Шубинский; 1834–1913) was a Russian historian and journalist who edited two widely read magazines concerned with the history of Imperial Russia.Глинский Б. Б. Сергей Николаевич Шубинский. (1834—1913 гг.). Биографический очерк. — СПб.: Тип. А. С. Суворина, 1913.. Shubinsky had a successful military career from 1854 onward, retiring with the rank of Major General in 1887. He developed a keen interest in the comparatively recent history of his country while collecting hitherto unpublished anecdotes about Prince Potemkin. Shubinsky edited an illustrated monthly periodical, '' Old and New Russia'', in 1875-79, before setting up a more widely distributed magazine, '' The Historical Herald'', in 1880. He remained in charge of the periodical until his death in 1913. The publisher was Aleksey Suvorin. Shubinsky also authored a splat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniil Mordovtsev
Daniil Lukich Mordovtsev (; December 19, 1830 in Danilovka, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire – June 23, 1905 in Kislovodsk, Russian Empire) was a Russian writer and historian. Biography Mordovtsev was born in Danilovka, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. Mordovtsev's father was a Don Cossack and an estate manager. Mordovtsev spent his childhood in Don Host Oblast, where he learned in school. He graduated from the faculty of history and philology at St. Petersburg University in 1854. Mordovtsev's literary debut came in the mid-1850s. His first work was the poem ''The Cossacks and the Sea'' (1854, published 1859). He began writing in Russian in the 1860s his first novels. His novella ''New Russian People'' (1868) dealt with the Narodniks and their cause, and with the position of raznochintsy intellectuals, as did the novel ''Signs of the Times'' (1869), although Mordovets did not share the views of the Narodniks. His historical novels were widely read; (''The False Dmitry'', 1879; ''Tsar P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky ( – ) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism. He was the dominant intellectual figure of the 1860s revolutionary democratic movement in Russia, despite spending much of his later life in exile to Siberia, and was later highly praised by Karl Marx, Georgi Plekhanov, and Vladimir Lenin. Biography The son of a priest, Chernyshevsky was born in Saratov in 1828, and stayed there until 1846. He graduated at the local seminary where he learned English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek and Old Slavonic. It was there he gained a love of literature. At St Petersburg University he often struggled to warm his room. He kept a diary of trivia like the number of tears he shed over a dead friend. It was here that he became an atheist. He was inspired by the works of Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach and Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoly Faresov
Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov (russian: Анатолий Иванович Фаресов; 16 June 1852, — 15 October 1928) was a radical publicist, literary critic and journalist who lived in the Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union. Faresov was born in Tambov, into a noble family of Ivan Faresov, a Collegiate Councillor. A Narodnaya Volya activist, in 1874 he was arrested and spent four years in the Petropavlovskaya Fortress. Anatoly Faresov at the . After the release Faresov started writing for several leading Russian magazines, including '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Leskov
Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include '' Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk'' (1865) (which was later made into an opera by Shostakovich), '' The Cathedral Folk'' (1872), ''The Enchanted Wanderer'' (1873), and " The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea" (1881). Leskov received his formal education at the Oryol Lyceum. In 1847 Leskov joined the Oryol criminal court office, later transferring to Kiev, where he worked as a clerk, attended university lectures, mixed with local people, and took part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ieronim Yasinsky
Ieronim Ieronimovich Yasinsky (russian: Иерони́м Иерони́мович Яси́нский; April 18 (30), 1850 – December 31, 1931) was a Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist. Among the numerous pseudonyms he used, were Maxim Belinsky, Nezavisimy (The Independent One) and M.Tchunosov. Biography Yasinsky was born in Kharkiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the lawyer and landlord Ieronim Yasinsky, a nobleman of Polish origins, and Olga Maksimovna Belinskaya, the daughter of a 1812 Borodino hero Colonel Maxim Belinsky (whose name he later used as a literary pseudonym). From the age of eleven, Yasinsky began to write verses and recite them at family literary and musical parties. Yasinsky, who received a good home education, continued studying in the Chernigov gymnasium and in 1868 enrolled into the Kiev University, which he left in 1871, after marrying V.P.Ivanova. A person of strong character, keenly interested in women's liberation movement, she exer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Gnedich
Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich ( rus, Пётр Петро́вич Гне́дич, p=ˈpʲɵtr pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈɡnʲedʲɪtɕ, a=Pyotr Pyetrovich Gnyedich.ru.vorb.oga; – July 16, 1925), also known as Gnedich-Smolensky, was a Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theatre entrepreneur and art history scholar. He was a grandnephew of Russian poet and translator Nikolay Gnedich. He is considered one of the founders of art history Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today .... Gnedich wrote more than 40 plays (7 of them historical) and several novels (''Chinese Shadows'', 1884, ''The Burden of this World'', 1897). Anton Chekhov praised Gnedich's talent; the two authors have often been linked together by contemporary critics who also noted Gnedich's erudition and artfulness a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Terpigorev
Sergey Nikolayevich Terpigorev (russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Терпиго́рев; May 24, 1841 – June 25, 1895) was a Russian Empire writer. Biography Terpigorev was born on May 24, 1841, in the village of Nikolsky in the Usmansky Uyezd of Tambov Governorate (now Dobrinsky District, Lipetsk Oblast) into an impoverished noble family. He attended grammar school, and in 1861-62, studied at Saint Petersburg State University. For his involvement in student unrest he was exiled and sent to the family estate of his mother, where he lived for five years under police surveillance. During this period he decided to gather material for essays on social topics. He sent them to the magazine ''Russian Word'' (Russkoye Slovo) and the St. Petersburg newspaper ''The Voice'' (Golos). These essays denounced fraud and embezzlement, and showed the hard life of the common people. In 1867, when his term of exile ended, Terpigorev again went to St. Petersburg. He published a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostislav Sementkovsky
Rostislav Ivanovich Sementkovsky (russian: Ростислав Иванович Сементковский, 1846 – 1918) was a Russian writer, publicist and translator, also known under the pen name Ratov. A professional lawyer, and a Saint Petersburg University's law faculty graduate, Sementkovsky started his career in journalism in 1873, first in '' Novoye Vremya'', then ''Finansovoye Obozreniye'' (Finance Review), '' Birzhevyie Vedomosti'', ''Telegraf'' and ''Novosti'', where in 1880-1890 he was the head of the Foreign Affairs section. In 1897 he became the editor-in-chief of the popular and influential '' Niva'' magazine (where for some years he had edited the Literary News section), while still writing on the broad range of subjects concerning politics, jurisprudence, philosophy and history of literature. A devoted Francophile and a proponent of the closest possible Franco-Russian relations, Sementkovsky (as Ratov) published in 1897 a book called ''Pending the War'' (В о ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadezhda Merder
Nadezhda Ivanovna Merder (russian: Надежда Ивановна Мердер, Svechina, Свечина, born 1839, — died 13 March 1906) was a Russian writer and playwright, better known under her pen name N. Severin (Н. Северин). Born to a retired military man belonging to an old Russian rural gentry family, she debuted in ''Otechestvennye Zapiski'' with her 1877 short novel ''Out of Order'' (Не в порядке вещей) to be followed by numerous (in all, more than one hundred) novels, plays and novellas, which appeared originally in the magazines ''Delo'', '' Zhivopisnoye Obozreniye'', ''Vestnik Evropy'', ''Istorichesky Vestnik'', '' Niva''. Of the several plays she wrote for theatre, the best known was ''Happiness in Marriage'' (Супружеское счастье, 1884). Forgotten during the Soviet times, N. Severin's legacy was revived in 1990s after her Selected Works came out in 1997 via the Terra Publishers. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Burenin
Viktor Petrovich Burenin (russian: Виктор Петрович Буренин, March 6 ebruary 22, o.s. 1841 in Moscow, Russian Empire – August 15, 1926 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Russian literary and theatre critic, publicist, novelist, dramatist, translator and satirical poet notorious for his confrontational articles and satirical poems, mostly targeting leftist writers. He was the author of several popular plays (some co-authored by Alexey Suvorin), novels and opera librettos (Tchaikovsky's ''Mazepa''; Cui's ''Angelo''). Biography Viktor Burenin was born in Moscow, the twelfth child in the family of architect Pyotr Petrovich Burenin. As a student of the Moscow College of Architecture (1852-1859), he became friends with some amnestied Decembrists (Ivan Pushchin, Ivan Yakushkin, Gavriil Batenkov among others) who introduced the young man to the Russian literary circles. A strong influence proved to be petrashevets Sergey Durov who advised him to translate Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Polevoy
Pyotr Nikolayevich Polevoy (russian: Пётр Николаевич Полевой, 9 March 1839, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, — 12 February 1902, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian writer, playwright, translator, critic, editor and literary historian. The prominent journalist and editor Nikolai Polevoy was his father. A Saint Petersburg University graduate, for a decade Polevoy taught Russian literature and philology first at his alma mater, then at Novorossiysk Novorossiysk ( rus, Новоросси́йск, p=nəvərɐˈsʲijsk; ady, ЦIэмэз, translit=Chəməz, p=t͡sʼɜmɜz) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is one of the largest ports on the Black Sea. It is one of the few cities hono ... and Warsaw Universities. In 1871 he turned professional writer and in the course of the next thirty years published numerous historical novels and novellas as well as plays and critical and historical essays. The 1911 Works by P.N. Polevoy in 6 volumes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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