Grigory Konstantinovich Gradovsky (russian: Григорий Константинович Градовский, 31 October 1842,

Kherson Governorate The Kherson Governorate (1802–1922; russian: Херсонская губерния, translit.: ''Khersonskaya guberniya''; uk, Херсонська губернія, translit=Khersonska huberniia), was an administrative territorial unit (als ...

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, — 13 April 1915,

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 ...

, Imperial Russia) was a Russian

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

, essayist, publicist and

publisher Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

. A Kiev University graduate, Gradovsky contributed first to ''Kievsky Telegraf'' and '' Kievlyanin'', later to ''

Golos Golos may refer to: * Golos (election monitor), a coalition of non-governmental groups monitoring for election violations and government responsiveness to citizen requests in Russia * ''Golos'' (newspaper), a Russian newspaper, published in Saint ...

'' (where his popular Sunday feuilletons were published under the pseudonym Galin), '' Moskovskiye Vedomosti'', ''

Russkiy Mir The "Russian world" (russian: Русский мир, lit=Russian world', 'Russian order', 'Russian community, translit=Russkiy mir; la, Pax Rossica, Pax Russica) is the concept of social totality associated with Russian culture. ''Russkiy mir'' ...

'' and ''Molva''. In the early 1870s for a short while he was the editor of '' Grazhdanin'', a magazine published by the Dostoyevsky brothers. In 1876 he started to publish his own newspaper ''Russkoye Obozrenye''. After eleven warnings and three suspensions it was closed by the authorities in 1878, and Gradovsky went to the

Turkish War The Great Turkish War (german: Großer Türkenkrieg), also called the Wars of the Holy League ( tr, Kutsal İttifak Savaşları), was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League consisting of the Holy Roman Empire, Pola ...

as a war correspondent for ''Golos''. Two books which collected his frontline reports and essays, ''The War in Asia Minor in 1877'' (1878) and ''M.D. Skobelev. An Etude of Our Times and Its Heroes'' (1884, later translated into German), caused much controversy for seemingly aiming to undermine General Skovelev's high standing as a popular hero and nationalistic emblem the time. Another scandal was caused by his 1884 ''Voskhod''-published essay "On the Jewish Question" (К еврейскому вопросу) in which he criticised the Russian government's repressive policy towards the Jews. In 1895, alongside Nikolay Mikhaylovsky,

Konstantin Arsenyev Konstantin Konstantinovich Arsenyev (russian: Константин Константинович Арсеньев, 5 February 1837, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia, — 22 March 1919, Petrograd, Soviet Russia) was a Russian journalist, essayist ...

, Andrey Beketov,

Vasily Bilbasov Vasily Alexeyevich Bilbasov (russian: Василий Алексеевич Бильбасов; 19 June 1838, in Poltava, Ukraine, then Russian Empire – 24 July 1904, in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian Empire historian, e ...

and

Semyon Vengerov Semyon Afanasievich Vengerov (Russian: Семён Афанасьевич Венгеров; 17 April Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O._S._5_April.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/> O._S._5_April">Old_Style_and_Ne ...

among others, he launched the campaign for freedom of speech and the liberalisation of the press legislation. In 1896 he sent a personal letter to Konstantin Pobedonostsev, trying to make him see the necessity of establishing the principles of free press in Russia. He authored two dramas, ''Stary liberal'' (Старый либерал, Old Liberal) and ''Vo imya lyubvi'' (Во имя любви, In the Name of Love), both published in 1907.Григорий Константинович Градовский
at the Russian Biographical Dictionary. Gradovsky's daughter Yekaterina, a journalist too, was the wife of

Vasily Shulgin Vasily Vitalyevich Shulgin (russian: Васи́лий Вита́льевич Шульги́н; 13 January 1878 – 15 February 1976) was a Russian conservative monarchist, politician and member of the White movement. Young years Shulgin was bo ...

.Rybas, Svyatoslav. Vasily Shulgin. The Life of the Russian nationalist / Василий Шульгин: судьба русского националиста // Molodaya Gvardia, 2014. The Lives of Distinguished People series. P. 227.

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