Mikhail Stasyulevich
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Mikhail Matveevich Stasyulevich (Михаи′л Матве′евич Стасюле′вич, August 28, 1826, Saint Petersburg
, Russia
– January 23, 1911, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian
writer and scholar, author of books on ancient history, journalist, editor and publisher, best known as the founder (in 1866) and editor-in-chief (1866-1909) of Vestnik Evropy
, one of Russia's leading literary magazines of the time. He was also the author of numerous articles on contemporary Russian literature and later memoirs (including those of Ivan Goncharov
and Aleksey K. Tolstoy
). In the Soviet times Stasyulevich's name has been forgotten, his grave in the Voskresenskaya church destroyed in the late 1920s (along with the church). The first comprehensive study on his legacy, The Man of His Times, was written by Viktor Kelner and published in 1993.
Saint Petersburg
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, Russia
Russian Empire
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– January 23, 1911, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian
Russians
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writer and scholar, author of books on ancient history, journalist, editor and publisher, best known as the founder (in 1866) and editor-in-chief (1866-1909) of Vestnik Evropy
Vestnik Evropy
Vestnik Evropy was the major liberal magazine of late-nineteenth-century Russia; it lasted from 1866 to 1918....
, one of Russia's leading literary magazines of the time. He was also the author of numerous articles on contemporary Russian literature and later memoirs (including those of Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov .- Biography :Ivan Goncharov was born in Simbirsk ; his father was a wealthy grain merchant and respected official who was elected mayor of Simbirsk several times...
and Aleksey K. Tolstoy
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy , was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist...
). In the Soviet times Stasyulevich's name has been forgotten, his grave in the Voskresenskaya church destroyed in the late 1920s (along with the church). The first comprehensive study on his legacy, The Man of His Times, was written by Viktor Kelner and published in 1993.
Select works
- The History of Middle Ages in Writings of the Time and Modern Day Studies / История средних веков в ее писателях и исследованиях новейших ученых (Vol. 1—3, Saint Petersburg, 1863—65)
- A Study in Reviewing of the Philosophy of History's Basic Systems / Опыт исторического обзора главных систем философии истории (Saint Petersburg, 1866)