Evgeny Petrovich Karnovich (russian: Евге́ний Петро́вич Карно́вич; 15 November 1823 – 6 November 1885) was Russian writer,

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and editor. Born in rural

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region into an affluent Ukrainian landlord's family, Karnovich started his literary career in the 1840s as a translator of

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' comedies and a poet, while working as a teacher, then a minor state official. Several years later he moved to

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, to become the head of the local Archeologist committee. In 1859, after retirement, Karnovich became a professional journalist, writing on the subjects of history, politics, social issues and jurisprudence, as well as publishing his own poems and stories. In 1858–1861 he was the head of the Contemporary Review section ''

Sovremennik ''Sovremennik'' ( rus, «Современник», p=səvrʲɪˈmʲenʲːɪk, a=Ru-современник.ogg, "The Contemporary") was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836–1866. It came out f ...

'', in 1865–1871, one of the leading figures in the ''

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'' newspaper staff. He published the weekly magazine ''Mirovoi Posrednik'' (People's Attorney, 1861–1862), edited '' Birzhevyie Vedomosti'' (Stock Exchange News, 1875–1876) and ''Otgoloski'' (Echoes, 1881–1882). In his later years Karnovich, now a respected historian, published numerous essays (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.Nedelya ''Nedelya'' was a Russian liberal-Narodnik political and literary newspaper, published in Saint Petersburg from 1866 to 1901. Nedelya was the weekend supplement of the soviet newspaper ''Izvestia''. External links "Nedelya" digital archives in " ...

'', '' Russkaya Mysl'', '' Narodnaya Shkola'' and '' Nov'') as well as several historical novels on the 17th–18th century Russian history.Karnovich's biography in the Russian Writers Encyclopedia // Осьмакова Н. И. Русские писатели 1800–1917. Биографический словарь. Гл. ред. П. П. Николаев. Большая российская энциклопедия. 1992. Том 1, стр 488–491. Evgeny Karnovich
at the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary / Russian Biographical Dictionary.

References

External links

The Evgeny Karnovich page
at

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1823 births 1885 deaths People from Yaroslavsky Uyezd Russian editors 19th-century writers from the Russian Empire 19th-century historians from the Russian Empire Burials at Nikolskoe Cemetery {{russia-writer-stub