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

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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 ''

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''. Faresov authored numerous biographies of his contemporaries, notably of

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, 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
Literary Pskov // Литературный Псков 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