Vladimir Zotov
Vladimir Rafailovich Zotov was a Russian writer, playwright, journalist and editor. The writer and critic Rafail Zotov was his father.
Of the 41 plays he authored the best known were Novgorodsy, Zhizn Molyera and Syn stepei. Zotov wrote several novels, including Voltigeur and Stary dom. With Vladimir Sollogub he co-wrote a libretto for Anton Rubinstein's Dmitry Donskoy.
Zotov edited the newspapers Teatralnaya Letopis and Literaturnaya Gazeta as well as Illyustratsiya and Illyustrirovanny Listok, the two publications he was instrumental in merging into Illyustrirovannaya Gazeta in 1863. Zotov was an encyclopedist who compiled and edited a History of World Literature. His Memoirs came out in 1890, published by Istorichesky Vestnik, Nos. 1-6.
