Pavel Vladimirovich Zasodimsky (, born 13 November 1834,

Veliky Ustyug Veliky Ustyug () is a town in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located in the northeast of the oblast at the confluence of the Sukhona and Yug Rivers. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 31,665. Veliky Ustyug has a great historical signific ...

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, — died 17 May 1912, Opechensky Posad,

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movement and

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group. He was also known under his pen name Vologdin (Вологдин).Pavel Zasodimsky
Biography at the

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. 1890—1907. Writing mostly about the life of Russian lower classes, Zasodimsky contributed regularly to the leading Russian magazines, including ''

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'' (where he started out in 1868), ''

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 ...

'' (''The Chronicles of the Smurin Village'', published there in 1874, was lauded by critics), and ''

Russkoye Bogatstvo ''Russkoye Bogatstvo'' (, Russian Wealth) was a monthly literary and political magazine published in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1876 to mid-1918. In the early 1890s it served as an organ of the liberal Narodniks. From 1906 it became an organ o ...

'', which he became the member of the staff in 1880, the year when his another well-known novel, ''The Steppe Mysteries'' appeared in it. Several of his novellas were published by '' Nablyudatel'', numerous essays and sketches appeared in ''

Severny Vestnik ''Severny Vestnik'' (, ) was an influential Russian literary magazine founded in Saint Petersburg in 1885 by Anna Yevreinova, who stayed with it until 1889. History In the early years ''Severny Vestnik'' was the Narodnik's stable; after ''Otech ...

'', ''

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'', ''Siyaniye'' and '' Russkaya Zhizn''.Pavel Zasodimsky
s biography at the Great Soviet Encyclopedia // Большая советская энциклопедия. — М.: Советская энциклопедия. 1969—1978. Zasodimsky was a popular children’s writer; his best-known stories appeared in two collections: ''Soulful Stories'' (Задушевные рассказы) and ''The True Stories and Fairytales'' (Бывальщина и сказки). He owned a huge library at Nevsky, 80, in Saint Petersburg which at some point Alexander Ertel was in charge of, and which was used as a meeting place for the members of

, which Zasodimsky was in close contact with.Narodnaya Volya in St Petersburg.
Петербург "Народной Воли"

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