Ksenofont Polevoy
Ksenofont Alexeyevich Polevoy was a Russian writer, literary critic, journalist, publisher and translator. He was the younger brother of the writers Yekaterina Avdeyeva and Nikolai Polevoy.
Among the biographies Ksenofont Polevoy authored were those of Mikhail Lomonosov and Ivan Khemnitser, as well as his brother, whom he idolized . In 1835–1839 he translated from French 16 volumes of Memoires ou souvenirs historiques by Laure Junot. In 1825–1834 he co-edited Moskovsky Telegraf, in 1835–1838 Zhivopisnoye Obozrenye, then a yearly almanac.
