Vukol Mikhaylovich Lavrov (russian: Вукoл Михайлович Лавров, 23 September 1852,
Yelets
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History
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Oryol Governorate
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Imperial Russia
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, — 23 January 1912, Vertoshino,
Moscow Governorate
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, Imperial Russia) was a Russian
journalist
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publisher
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editor
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translator
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In 1880 he started to publish ''
Russkaya Mysl'' (which is seen in retrospect as having provided an ideological background for the Russian
Constitutional Democrat Party) and in 1882 became its
editor-in-chief
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. Lavrov was considered Russia's best translator from Polish of his time. Among the translations he's made were the novels by
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Zygmunt Miłkowski
Zygmunt Miłkowski, pseudonym Teodor Tomasz Jeż (March 23, 1824 in Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire – January 11, 1915 in Lausanne, Switzerland) was Polish romantic writer and politician who struggled for independence of Poland as leader o ...
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Maria Konopnicka
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Władysław Reymont
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (, born Rejment; 7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel '' Chłopi'' (''The Peasants ...
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Вукол Михайлович Лавров
at the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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1852 births
1912 deaths
Writers from Yelets
People from Yeletsky Uyezd
Editors from the Russian Empire
Journalists from the Russian Empire
Translators from the Russian Empire
19th-century translators from the Russian Empire
Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery
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