Vasily Yurievich Skalon (russian: Васи́лий Ю́рьевич Скало́н, 7 February 1846 — 19 April 1907) was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist, editor and later in life, political activist. A major authority on the history and the current problems of Russian

zemstvo A ''zemstvo'' ( rus, земство, p=ˈzʲɛmstvə, plural ''zemstva'' – rus, земства) was an institution of local government set up during the great emancipation reform of 1861 carried out in Imperial Russia by Emperor Alexander ...

, Skalon published a set of influential essays on the matter, mostly in ''Russkaya Letopis'', ''

Russkiye Vedomosti ''Russkiye Vedomosti'' (russian: Русские ведомости) was a Russian liberal daily newspaper, published in Moscow from 1863 till 1918. Founded in Moscow in 1863 by Nikolai Pavlov, it was edited by Nikolai Skvortsov (1866-1882) and ...

'' and ''

Vestnik Evropy ''Vestnik Evropy'' (russian: Вестник Европы) (''Herald of Europe'' or ''Messenger of Europe'') was the major liberal magazine of late-nineteenth-century Russia. It was published from 1866 to 1918. The magazine (named for an earlier ...

''. His series of articles for Alyabyev's ''Gramotei'' magazine came out as a book in 1872 only to be banned and later destroyed by the special order of the Ministry of Finance. A compilation ''Questions of Zemstvo. Sketches and Reviews'' came out as a separate edition in 1882. Skalon edited the magazines ''Zemstvo'' (1880—1882, with

Alexander Koshelev Alexander Ivanovich Koshelev (russian: Александр Иванович Кошелев; 21 May 1806 – 24 November 1883) was a Russian journalist, publicist, publisher and state official. A staunch Slavophile, Koshelev published numerous ess ...

) and, in 1886–1888, ''The Works of the Free Economic Society'' (Труды вольного экономического общества). In early 1900s he moved into politics and became a member of first the

Union of Liberation The Union of Liberation (russian: Союз Освобождения, ''Soyuz Osvobozhdeniya'') was a liberal political group founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia in January 1904 under the influence of Peter Berngardovich Struve, a former Marxist. I ...

and later the Russian

Constitutional Democratic Party ) , newspaper = ''Rech'' , ideology = ConstitutionalismConstitutional monarchismLiberal democracyParliamentarism Political pluralismSocial liberalism , position = Centre to centre-left , international = , colours ...

.Vasily Skalon
The biography at the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1900. // Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, т. XXX (1900): Сим -- Слюзка, с. 171

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Essayists from the Russian Empire Journalists from the Russian Empire Politicians from the Russian Empire 1846 births 1907 deaths {{Europe-journalist-stub