Ksenofont Alexeyevich Polevoy (russian: Ксенофонт Алексеевич Полевой, 1 August 1801, Irkutsk, Imperial Russia, – 21 April 1867, Tyukhmenevo,

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, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, literary critic,

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. He was the younger brother of the writers Yekaterina Avdeyeva and Nikolai Polevoy. Among the biographies Ksenofont Polevoy authored were those of Mikhail Lomonosov (1836, praised by

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) and Ivan Khemnitser (1838), as well as his brother, whom he idolized (''The Notes on the Life and Works by Nikolai Polevoy'', 1888). In 1835–1839 he translated from French 16 volumes of ''Memoires ou souvenirs historiques'' (1831) by

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.Полевой Ксенофонт Алексеевич
at the Russian Biographical Dictionary In 1825–1834 he co-edited (with Nikolai Polevoy) ''Moskovsky Telegraf'', in 1835–1838 ''Zhivopisnoye Obozrenye'', then a yearly almanac.Berezina, V. Ksenofont Polevoy in The Moscow Telegraph // Ксенофонт Полевой в "Московском телеграфе". // Полевой Н.А., Полевой Кс. А. Литературная критика: Статьи и рецензии (1825–1842). - Л., 1990. - С. 362-370.Blagoy, Dmitrty
Полевой К. А.
Soviet Literary Encyclopedia, vol. 9, p. 43 // Литературная энциклопедия: В 11 т. - �. 1929–1939. Сов. Энцикл., 1935. - Стр. 43.

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Writers from Irkutsk Russian critics Journalists from the Russian Empire Russian male journalists Male writers from the Russian Empire 1801 births 1867 deaths 19th-century translators from the Russian Empire {{Russia-writer-stub