Boris Borisovich Glinsky (russian: Бори′с Бори′сович Гли′нский, 12 October 1860,
Saint Petersburg
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 ...
,
Russian Empire
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, – 30 November 1917,
Petrograd
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 ...
,
Soviet Russia
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
) was a
Russian writer,
publicist
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,
publisher
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, editor and politician. A prominent historian and biographer, Glinsky published numerous articles and essays, mainly in ''
Istorichesky Vestnik
''Istorichesky Vestnik'' (russian: Историческій Вѣстникъ, Исторический вестник, History Herald) was a Russian monthly historical and literary magazine published in Saint Petersburg in 1880-1917.[Severny Vestnik
''Severny Vestnik'' (russian: Се́верный ве́стник, en, The Northern Messenger) was an influential Russian literary magazine founded in Saint Petersburg in 1885 by Anna Yevreinova, who stayed with it until 1889.
History
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'' (editor and publisher in 1890—1891), and ''Russkaya Budushchnost'' (Russian Future, 1915—1917). Described as a 'progressive nationalist', Glinsky supported both the 1917
February Revolution
The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...
and the
Kornilov affair. As a result, in August 1917 he was arrested on the counter-revolutionary charges, but in October 1917 was released. Glinsky died in Petrograd on 30 November 1917.
Select bibliography
* A Republican at the Russian Court (, 1888)
* Vladimir Yakovlevich Stoyunin (, 1889)
* Orest Fyodorovich Miller (, 1889)
* The Magnanimous Conquest (, 1890)
* The Judicial Eloquence in Russia (, 1897)
* The Tsar's Children and Their Tutors (, 1899)
* The Sketches on the Russian Progress (, 1900)
* Fighting For the Constitution (. 1908)
* The Revolutionary Period in the Russian History (, parts 1 and 2, 1913)
References
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1860 births
1917 deaths
Writers from Saint Petersburg
Russian editors