Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov (russian: Анатолий Иванович Фаресов; 16 June 1852, — 15 October 1928) was a radical publicist,
literary critic
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and
journalist
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who lived in the Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union.
Faresov was born in
Tambov
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, into a noble family of Ivan Faresov, a
Collegiate Councillor
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. A
Narodnaya Volya
Narodnaya Volya ( rus, Наро́дная во́ля, p=nɐˈrodnəjə ˈvolʲə, t=People's Will) was a late 19th-century revolutionary political organization in the Russian Empire which conducted assassinations of government officials in an att ...
activist, in 1874 he was arrested and spent four years in the
Petropavlovskaya Fortress
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. Anatoly Faresov at the
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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. After the release Faresov started writing for several leading Russian magazines, including '' Zhivopisnoe obozrenie'', ''Molva'' (where in 1880, as Anatolyev, he published his prison memoirs which came out as a separate edition in 1900), ''
Delo
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''Delo'' was the first daily in Ukraine, publishing its real print circulation (13.000 - 15.000) and trying to introduce Western e ...
'', ''
Novoye Vremya
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'', ''
Nedelya
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Nedelya was the weekend supplement of the soviet newspaper ''Izvestia''.
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'' and ''
Istorichesky Vestnik
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Faresov authored numerous biographies of his contemporaries, notably of
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
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,
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 w ...
, Iosif Kablits, Alexander Engelgardt, Alexander Sheller, Alexander Neustroyev. His stories came out in a book called ''My Muzhiks'' (Мои мужики, 1900), shorter pieces were collected in ''The Awakened People'' (Пробужденный народ. Очерки с натуры. 1908), ''A Nation Without Vodka'' (Народ без водки, 1916), ''Man and Sobriety'' (Народ и трезвость, 1917).Faresov Anatoly Ivanovich Literary Pskov // Литературный Псков
Faresov died on 15 October 1928 in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...