Alexey Dmitrievich Galakhov (Алексе́й Дми́триевич Гала́хов; January 13, 1807 in Sapozhok,

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– November 16, 1892 in

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, Russian Empire) was a Russian author and literary historian, best known for his Russian Reader for Children (1842), and ''The History of Russian Literature, Old and New'' (1863–1875). Galakhov, the Professor at the Saint Petersburg History and Philology Institute, contributed regularly to numerous high profile magazines, most notably, Andrey Krayevsky's ''

Otechestvennye Zapiski ''Otechestvennye Zapiski'' ( rus, Отечественные записки, p=ɐˈtʲetɕɪstvʲɪnːɨjɪ zɐˈpʲiskʲɪ, variously translated as "Annals of the Fatherland", "Patriotic Notes", "Notes of the Fatherland", etc.) was a Russian lit ...

'' where from 1839 till 1856 he published more than 900 articles and reviews, occasionally under the pseudonym Sto Odin (One Hundred and One). He was the author of several novelettes and books of memoirs.

Selected bibliography

Non-fiction

* The Russian Reader for Children (1842) * ''The History of the Russian Literature, Old and New'' (1863–1875)

Fiction

* ''The Old Mirror'' (Staroye zerkalo, Старое зеркало, 1845) * ''The Error'' (Oshibka, Ошибка, 1846) * ''Puppet Comedy'' (Kukolnaya komediya, Кукольная комедия, 1847) * ''Transformation'' (Prevrashcheniye, Превращение, 1847)

Memoirs

* ''From the Notes of One Man'' (Из записок человека, 1847–1848) * ''My Contribution to Magazines'' (Моё сотрудничество в журналах, 1886) * ''The Moscow Literary Coffee-House'' in 1830s-1840s (Литературная кофейня в Москве в 1830–1840-х гг., 1886) * ''The 1840s'' (Сороковые годы, 1892)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Galakhov, Alexey 1807 births 1892 deaths People from Sapozhkovsky District People from Sapozhkovsky Uyezd Privy Councillor (Russian Empire) Literary critics from the Russian Empire