Count Grigory Alexandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko (russian: Григорий Александрович Кушелев-Безбородко, 1 February 1832,

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 ...

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, – 13 May 1870, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer,

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. Kushelev-Bezborodko started out in the early 1850s as a writer who contributed short stories and sketches to ''

Otechestvennye Zapiski ''Otechestvennye Zapiski'' ( rus, Отечественные записки, p=ɐˈtʲetɕɪstvʲɪnːɨjɪ zɐˈpʲiskʲɪ, variously translated as "Annals of the Fatherland", "Patriotic Notes", "Notes of the Fatherland", etc.) was a Russian lite ...

'', ''Pantheon'', ''Molva'' and ''

Russkoye Slovo ''Russkoye Slovo'' (Русское слово, Russian Word) was a Russian weekly magazine published in Saint Petersburg in 1859-1866 by its owner, Count Grigory Kushelev-Bezborodko. History The magazine's first editors were Yakov Polonsky, Apol ...

''. In 1856 he started to edit the latter, then four years later passed all the publishing rights to Grigory Blagosvetlov, along with all the printing facilities as a free gift, to concentrate on entrepreneurial work and literary philanthropy. In 1858 Kushelev-Bezborodko invited

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to make a trip over Russia and received him as a guest at his

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in Polyustrovo. In 1861 he visited

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and two years later donated a large sum of money to the Common Fund (Общий фонд) which had been set to help the Russians abroad.

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was considered his secretary. He built the

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for his wife. Among the several major publications that he financed back in Russia were the 1858 poetry collection by

Apollon Maykov Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (russian: Аполло́н Никола́евич Ма́йков, , Moscow – , Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet, best known for his lyric verse showcasing images of Russian villages, nature, and history. His love ...

, the first edition of The Works by

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(1859), as well as The Complete

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(1862—1863) in three volumes. His own literary work was collected first in the ''Sketches and Stories by Gritsko Grigorenko'' (1857) and later in the ''Sketches, Stories, Traveler Notes'' collection.Григорий Александрович Кушелев-Безбородко. Russian Writers, 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary, vol. 3, pp. 250—251 // Русские писатели. 1800—1917. Биографический словарь. Т. 3: К — М. — М.: Большая российская энциклопедия, 1994 Famous Polish pianist and composer

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dedicated to Kushelev-Bezborodko a piece, ''La dolce rimembranza, Op. 158'' (ca.1856).

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