Nikolai Snessarev
Nikolai Vasilyevich Snessarev was a Russian journalist, writer, literary critic and politician, in 1910s a member the Saint Petersburg City Duma. A prominent Novoye Vremya contributor and official, and later, in emigration, a supporter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, Snessarev's two major books, "The New Times Mirage" and "Kirill I, the Koburg Emperor", were satirizing both Novoye Vremya and the Grand Duke of Russia, whom he by now has got totally disillusioned with.