Anatoly Faresov
Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov was a radical Russian publicist, literary critic and journalist.
Faresov was born in Tambov, into a noble family of Ivan Faresov, a Collegiate Councillor. A Narodnaya Volya activist, in 1874 he was arrested and spent four years in the Petropavlovskaya Fortress. After the release Faresov started writing for several leading Russian magazines, including Zhivopisnoye Obozrenye, Molva, Delo, Novoye Vremya, Nedelya and Istorichesky Vestnik.
Faresov authored numerous biographies of his contemporaries, notably of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Leskov, Iosif Kablits, Alexander Engelgardt, Alexander Sheller, Alexander Neustroyev. His stories came out in a book called My Muzhiks, shorter pieces were collected in The Awakened People, A Nation Without Vodka, Man and Sobriety.
Faresov died on 15 October 1928 in Leningrad.
