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Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov (; 16 June 1852, — 15 October 1928) was a radical publicist,
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and
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who lived in the Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union. Faresov was born in
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, into a noble family of Ivan Faresov, a
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. A
Narodnaya Volya Narodnaya Volya () was a late 19th-century revolutionary socialist political organization operating in the Russian Empire, which conducted assassinations of government officials in an attempt to overthrow the autocratic Tsarist system. The org ...
activist, in 1874 he was arrested and spent four years in the
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. Anatoly Faresov
at the
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After the release Faresov started writing for several leading Russian magazines, including '' Zhivopisnoe obozrenie'', ''Molva'' (where in 1880, as Anatolyev, he published his prison memoirs which came out as a separate edition in 1900), ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Nedelya'' and ''
Istorichesky Vestnik ''Istorichesky Vestnik'' (, History Herald) was a Russian monthly historical and literary magazine published in Saint Petersburg from 1880 to 1917,
''. Faresov authored numerous biographies of his contemporaries, notably of
Nikolai Chernyshevsky Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky ( – ) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and the N ...
,
Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held ...
, Iosif Kablits, Alexander Engelgardt, Alexander Sheller, Alexander Neustroyev. His stories came out in a book called ''My Muzhiks'' (Мои мужики, 1900), shorter pieces were collected in ''The Awakened People'' (Пробужденный народ. Очерки с натуры. 1908), ''A Nation Without Vodka'' (Народ без водки, 1916), ''Man and Sobriety'' (Народ и трезвость, 1917).Faresov Anatoly Ivanovich
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Faresov died on 15 October 1928 in
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Faresov, Anatoly Journalists from the Russian Empire Soviet journalists People from Tambov 1852 births 1928 deaths Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress