Fyodor Timofeyevich Stellovsky (russian: Фёдор Тимофеевич Стелловский, 1826 — 27 April 1875) was a prominent Russian publisher and editor. Stellovsky was born in

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. Among the composers whose music he published were

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, Alexey Verstovsky,

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, Alexander Varlamov, Ivan Khandoshkin and

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, whose whole back catalogue he purchased in 1857. The popular works by several major foreign composers, including

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and Weber have also came out through the Stellovsky Publishers for the first time in Russia. In 1858—1860 Stellovsky edited and published ''Muzykalny i Teatralny Vestnik'' (Music and Theatre Herald), then the newspaper ''Russky Mir'', the magazines ''Gudok'' and ''Yakor'' (Anchor), as well as the ''Music Album'', a supplement to the ''

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'' magazine. In 1860s Stellovsky moved into the literary publishing business too to launch the acclaimed series ''The Works by Russian Authors'' (Собрания сочинений русских авторов, 1861—1870). As part to it, the first major collections of several prominent Russian writers came out, including

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(The Works of, parts 1 and 2, 1864),

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(vols. 1-4, 1861—1867) and

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(vols. 1-4, 1865—1870).Фёдор Тимофеевич Стелловский
biography at the Guitar History site He died in

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