Evgeny Petrovich Karnovich (; 15 November 1823 – 6 November 1885) was Russian writer,

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Biography

Born in rural

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region into an affluent Ukrainian noble Karnovich family, Evgeny started his literary career in the 1840s as a translator of

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' comedies and a poet, while working as a teacher, then a minor state official. Several years later he moved to

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, to become the head of the local Archeologist committee. In 1859, after retirement, Karnovich became a professional journalist, writing on the subjects of history, politics, social issues and jurisprudence, as well as publishing his own poems and stories. In 1858–1861 he was the head of the Contemporary Review section ''

Sovremennik ''Sovremennik'' ( rus, «Современник», p=səvrʲɪˈmʲenʲːɪk, a=Ru-современник.ogg, "The Contemporary") was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836–1866. It came out f ...

'', in 1865–1871, one of the leading figures in the '' Golos'' newspaper staff. He published the weekly magazine ''Mirovoi Posrednik'' (People's Attorney, 1861–1862), edited '' Birzhevyie Vedomosti'' (Stock Exchange News, 1875–1876) and ''Otgoloski'' (Echoes, 1881–1882). In his later years Karnovich, now a respected historian, published numerous essays (in '' Istorichesky Vestnik'', '' Nedelya'', ''

Russkaya Mysl ''Russian Mind'' (; French – ''La Pensée Russe'') is a pan-European sociopolitical and cultural magazine, published on a monthly basis both in Russian and in English. The modern edition follows the traditions of the magazine laid down in 1880 ...

'', '' Narodnaya Shkola'' and '' Nov'') as well as several historical novels on the 17th–18th century Russian history.Karnovich's biography in the Russian Writers Encyclopedia // Осьмакова Н. И. Русские писатели 1800–1917. Биографический словарь. Гл. ред. П. П. Николаев. Большая российская энциклопедия. 1992. Том 1, стр 488–491. Evgeny Karnovich
at the

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian. It contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps. It was published in the Russian Em ...

/ Russian Biographical Dictionary.

References

External links

The Evgeny Karnovich page
at Lib.ru 1823 births 1885 deaths People from Yaroslavsky Uyezd Editors from the Russian Empire 19th-century historians from the Russian Empire Burials at Nikolskoe Cemetery 19th-century journalists from the Russian Empire {{russia-writer-stub