Pyotr Vasilyevich Bykov (Пётр Васильевич Быков, 1 November 1844,

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– 22 October 1930, Detskoye Selo,

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) was a Russian literary historian,

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poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

and

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. A

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alumnus, Bykov moved to

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in the early 1860s and started writing short stories, poems and bibliographical articles, published in '' Syn Otechestva'', '' Russkiy Mir'', ''

Iskra ''Iskra'' (, , ''the Spark'') was a fortnightly political newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants established as the official organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). History ''Iskra'' was published in exile and then smuggl ...

'', ''

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 ...

''. Later Bykov edited ''

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'' (1880), ''

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 ...

'' (1881–1900), '' Vsemirnaya Illyustratsia'' (literary section, 1891–1898), ''Slovo'' newspaper (1904–1905) and ''

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 ...

'' (1911). Among the translations Bykov made in 1870s-1900s were those of the works by

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Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician. His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...

Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; ; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was an outstanding poet, writer, and literary criticism, literary critic of 19th-century German Romanticism. He is best known outside Germany for his ...

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and Wladyslaw Syrokomla. Bykov compiled and published numerous ''The Complete Works'' series, including those by Yulia Zhadovskaya (1885), Alexey Koltsov (1892), Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1890),

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...

(1891, 1904),

(1900),

Alexey Pleshcheyev Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (; 8 October 1893) was a radical Russian poetry, Russian poet of the 19th century, once a member of the Petrashevsky Circle. Pleshcheyev's first book of poetry, published in 1846, made him famous: "Step forward! ...

(1896–1897, 1905),

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

(1909), Moliere (1909),

Ilya Salov Ilya Alexandrovich Salov (Илья Александрович Салов, 6 April 1834, Penza, Russian Empire, — 24 December 1902, Saratov, Russian Empire, was a Russian writer, playwright and translator. Having started in mid-1850s (in ''Russk ...

(1910–1912), Pyotr Polevoy (1911–1912), Lev Mey (1911),

Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...

(1911), Mikhail Mikhaylov (1912),

Fyodor Tyutchev Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (, ; – ) was a Russian poet and diplomat. Ancestry Tyutchev was born into an old Russian noble family in the Ovstug family estate near Bryansk (modern-day Zhukovsky District, Bryansk Oblast of Russia). His f ...

(1912),

Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak (; October 25, 1852 – November 2, 1912) was a Russian writer. He is most well known for his novels and short stories about life in the Ural Mountains. Biography Early life Mamin-Sibiryak was born in Vis ...

(1915–1917). The number of biographical articles and essays authored by Bykov exceeds one thousand.Elson, M. D. Bykov, Pyotr Vasilyevich. Russian Writers, 1800—1917. Biographical Dictionary (ed. P. A. Nikolayev). Moscow. Sovetskaya Encyclopedia, 1989. Vol. 1 (A-G). Pp. 381—383.

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