Alexander Ivanovich Koshelev (; 21 May 1806 – 24 November 1883) was a Russian

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and state official. A staunch Slavophile, Koshelev published numerous essays, mostly on economics. In the late 1850s he authored one of the several alternative land reform projects which the Russian government had to consider before embarking upon the

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. In 1856 Koshelev started publishing the magazine ''

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'' and two years later became its editor. Later, he published the Moscow journals ''

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'' (1871–1872, edited by

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) and (in 1880–1882) ''Zemstvo'' (edited by

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), both projecting the Slavophile views upon the agricultural issues and supporting the concept of

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as a true foundation for the Russian rural community. Koshelev worked for several governmental offices, in the

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and

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s, but also in

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(then part of the Russian Empire), specializing in finances, bank systems and economics. He was the President of the Moscow Agricultural Society and was regularly (in 1863–1865; 1869–1872; 1873–1876; 1881–1884) elected a for the

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. Koshelev's memoirs came out posthumously in

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, his widow Olga Fyodorovna being wary of the possibility of the Russian censors mangling the text.Кошелев, Александр Иванович
at The Great Biographical Encyclopedia

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