Yevgeny Nikolayevich Edelson (russian: Евгений Николаевич Эдельсон; 12 october 1824,
Ryazan
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,
Russian Empire
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, - January 8, 1868,
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 ...
, Russian Empire) was a
Russian
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literary critic
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,
journalist
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,
translator
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and philosopher, best known for his critical and philosophical essays published in ''
Moskvityanin
''Moskvityanin'' (Москвитянин, "The Muscovite") was a monthly literary review published by Mikhail Pogodin in Moscow between 1841 and 1856., , , , It was the mouthpiece of the Official Nationality theory espoused by Count Sergey Uvar ...
'' (where he, along with
Alexander Ostrovsky
Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; ) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 origina ...
among others was part of the "young faction", formed by
Mikhail Pogodin
Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Пого́дин; , Moscow, Moscow) was a Russian Imperial historian and journalist who, jointly with Nikolay Ustryalov, dominated the national historiography between the death ...
),
Pyotr Boborykin
Pyotr Dmitryevich Boborykin (russian: Пётр Дми́триевич Боборы́кин; – 12 August 1921) was a Russian writer, playwright, and journalist.
Biography
Boborykin was born into the family of a landowner. He studied at Kazan ...
-led ''
Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya
''Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya'' (russian: Библиоте́ка для чте́ния, en, The Reader's Library) was a Russian monthly magazine founded in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, in 1834 by Alexander Smirdin.
History
The magazine "of lit ...
'' (there he headed the literary criticism department) and ''
Vsemirny Trud''. Highly acclaimed were his translation of
Gotthold Lessing
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's ''Laocoön'' and "Shchedrin and the New Satirical Literature" (both published in 1859), the first comprehensive analytical survey of Russian literary satire of the mid-19th century.
References
External links
Yevgeny Edelsonat
Lib.ru
Lib.ru, also known as Maksim Moshkow's Library (russian: link=no, библиотека Максима Мошкова, started to operate in November 1994) is the oldest electronic library in the Russian Internet segment.
Founded and supported ...
(Russian)
1824 births
1868 deaths
People from Ryazan
Russian literary critics
Journalists from the Russian Empire
Russian male journalists
Male writers from the Russian Empire
Russian male essayists
19th-century translators from the Russian Empire
19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire
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