Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky (c. 1845 – 23 July 1914) was a Russian journalist and novelist.

He was the grandson of historian Nikolay Karamzin.

Meshchersky was editor of Grazhdanin (The Citizen), a traditional conservative newspaper which received subsidies from the imperial authorities. He also contributed to the periodicals Russkii Vestnik (The Russian Messenger) and Moskovskiye Vedomosti (Moscow News). He was the author of several novels and memoirs.

He was a friend of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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, and acquired a reputation as a homosexual philanderer. His patrons, the Tsars Alexander III

Alexander III of Russia

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 and Nicholas II

Nicholas II of Russia

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, protected him from public disgrace.