Fyodor Stellovsky
Fyodor Timofeyevich Stellovsky was a prominent Russian publisher and editor.
Among the composers whose music he has published, were Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Alexey Verstovsky, Alexander Serov, Alexander Varlamov, Ivan Khandoshkin and Mikhail Glinka, whose whole back catalogue he purchased in 1857. The popular works by several major foreign composers, including Mozart, Verdi 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, then the newspaper Russky Mir, the magazines Gudok and Yakor, as well as the Music Album, a supplement to the Pantheon magazine. In 1860s Stellovsky moved into the literary publishing business too to launch the acclaimed series The Works by Russian Authors. As part to it, the first major collections of several prominent Russian writers came out, including Lev Tolstoy, Alexey Pisemsky and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
