Alexey Galakhov Explained

Alexey Galakhov
Native Name:Андре′й Гала′хов
Native Name Lang:ru
Birthname:Alexey Dmitrievich Galakhov
Birth Date:13 January 1807
Birth Place:Sapozhok, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Place:Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Occupation:literary historian
critic
pedagogue
author
Awards:The Uvarov Prize

Alexey Dmitrievich Galakhov (Алексе́й Дми́триевич Гала́хов; January 13, 1807 in Sapozhok, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire – November 16, 1892 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian author and literary historian, best known for his Russian Reader for Children (1842), and The History of Russian Literature, Old and New (1863–1875). Galakhov, the Professor at the Saint Petersburg History and Philology Institute, contributed regularly to numerous high profile magazines, most notably, Andrey Krayevsky's Otechestvennye Zapiski where from 1839 till 1856 he published more than 900 articles and reviews, occasionally under the pseudonym Sto Odin (One Hundred and One). He was the author of several novelettes and books of memoirs.[1]

Selected bibliography

Non-fiction

Fiction

Memoirs

Notes and References

  1. Web site: S.Vengerov. 2000. Alexey Dmitrievich Galakhov. Russian Biographical Dictionary. 2014-01-13.