Alexander Ivanovich Koshelev (russian: Александр Иванович Кошелев; 21 May 1806 – 24 November 1883) was a Russian

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and state official. A staunch

Slavophile Slavophilia (russian: Славянофильство) was an intellectual movement originating from the 19th century that wanted the Russian Empire to be developed on the basis of values and institutions derived from Russia's early history. Slavoph ...

, Koshelev published numerous essays, mostly on economics. In the late 1850s he authored one of the several alternative land reform projects which the Russian government had to consider before embarking upon the

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. In 1856 Koshelev started publishing the magazine ''

Russkaya Beseda ''Russkaya Beseda'' (russian: Ру′сская бесе′да, en, The Russian Colloquy) was a Russian literary magazine founded in Moscow, Russian Empire, in 1856 by Alexander Koshelev who remained its editor-in-chief until 1858, when Ivan ...

'' and two years later became its editor. Later, he published the Moscow journals ''

Beseda ''Beseda'' ( rus, Беседа, p=bʲɪˈsʲedə, a=Ru-беседа.ogg, t=debate) was a clandestine discussion circle consisting of liberal "zemstvo men", among them prominent and grand names of the Russian aristocracy.Figes, p. 165 The intelli ...

'' (1871—1872, edited by

Sergey Yuriev Sergey Andreyevich Yuriev (russian: Сергей Андреевич Юрьев, 25 May 1821, village Voskresenskoye, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire, — 7 January 1889, Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Russian journalist, editor, publisher, transla ...

) and (in 1880—1882) ''Zemstvo'' (edited by Vasily Skalon), both projecting the Slavophile views upon the agricultural issues and supporting the concept of

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as a true foundation for the Russian rural community. Koshelev worked for several governmental offices, in the

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and

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s, but also in

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(then part of the Russian Empire), specializing in finances, bank systems and economics. He was the President of the Moscow Agricultural Society and was regularly (in 1863—1865; 1869—1872; 1873—1876; 1881—1884) elected a for the

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. Koshelev's memoirs came out posthumously in

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, his widow Olga Fyodorovna being wary of the possibility of the Russian censors mangling the text.Кошелев, Александр Иванович
at The Great Biographical Encyclopedia

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