Grigory Zakharovich Eliseev (russian: Григо́рий Заха́рович Елисе́ев, 6 February (25 January) 1821, village
Spasskoe,
Kainsk district,
Tomsk Governorate
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,
Russian Empire
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– 30 (18) January 1891, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a
Russian
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journalist
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,
editor, and
publisher
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.
He was best known for his work in ''
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 ...
'' magazine where, after the death of
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
Nikolay Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov ( rus, Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Добролю́бов, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ dəbrɐˈlʲubəf, a=Nikolay Alyeksandrovich Dobrolyubov.ru.vorb.oga; 5 February Old_Style_a ...
and the arrest of
Nikolay 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 ...
he was the leading figure in the mid-1860s.
Eliseev, using numerous pseudonyms (Grytsko being the best known), headed the "Domestic affairs review" department of ''Sovremennik'' and, according to
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary was later regarded as the founder of this particular reviewing genre in Russian journalism. Eliseev, a respected religious scholar, was also the author of two profound studies on the history of early
Christianity
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in the
Kazan
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region.
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1821 births
1891 deaths
People from Novosibirsk Oblast
People from Tomsk Governorate
Journalists from the Russian Empire
Male writers from the Russian Empire
Russian editors
19th-century journalists from the Russian Empire
Russian male journalists
19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire