Konstantin Arsenyev

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Konstantin Arsenyev
Petrograd
, Soviet Russia
Occupation(s)writer, journalist, essayist, lawyer, politician

Konstantin Konstantinovich Arsenyev (

essayist, lawyer, historian
and, in his later years, a liberal politician.

Having started out in

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, composed his 1888 book Critical Etudes on Russian Literature (Критические этюды по русской литературе).[1]

A long-standing member of the Russian Literary Fund chairmanship committee, in 1880s Arsenyev served several terms as its chairman. In 1891, with

Saint Petersburg University as well as of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (both in 1900) and the Free Economic Society (1903).[1]

In his later life Arsenyev moved into politics to become one of the leaders of the liberal monarchist Party of Democratic Reform.[2][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Konstantin Arsenyev at the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary / Soviet Literary Encyclopedia
  2. ^ Russian Philosophers of 19th-20th Centuries // Философы России XIX—XX столетий. Биографии, идеи, труды. Издание 2. М.,1995.-С.34.