Osip Notovich
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Osip Notovich was born into a Jewish family in the city of Taganrog
Taganrog
Taganrog is a seaport city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the north shore of Taganrog Bay , several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don River. Population: -History of Taganrog:...

, studied at the Taganrog Boys' Gymnasium
Chekhov Gymnasium
The Chekhov Gymnasium in Taganrog on Ulitsa Oktyabrskaya 9 is the oldest gymnasium in the South of Russia. Playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov spent 11 years in the school, which was later named after him and transformed into a literary museum...

, graduated from the law faculty of the Saint Petersburg University. In 1873-1874, he was the publisher and editor of the newspaper Novoe Vremya
Novoye Vremya (newspaper)
Novoye Vremya was a Russian newspaper published in St. Petersburg from 1868 to 1917. Until 1869 it came out five times a week; thereafter it came out every day, and from 1881 there were both morning and evening editions...

. In 1876 acquired the newspaper Novosti (newspaper), which he transformed into a political tribune.

Notovich was the author of Historical review of Russian publishing legislature ("Исторический очерк русского законодательства о печати" (published in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

 in 1873 and 1893. He published several philosophical essays "Some philosophy" ("Немножко философии", 1886), "Some more philosophy" ("Еще немножко философии" , 1886), "Love and beauty" ("Любовь и Красота", 1888) that were also translated into German and French.

In 1874, Notovich published the popular History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle was an English historian, author of an unfinished History of Civilization.- Biography :...

. He also wrote several plays: Marriage and Divorce or Transitional Times ("Брак и развод" или "Переходное время"), Shady Business ("Темное дело"), Daughter ("Дочь"), No exit ("Без выхода"), Surprise ("Сюрприз"), The Rejected ("Отверженный"). Some of these plays were staged in theaters of Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

 and Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

.

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