Ksenofont Polevoy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ksenofont Polevoy

Russian journalist, writer and literary critic (1801-1867)

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1801

Place of Birth: Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1867

Profession: writer, translator, journalist, literary critic

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ksenofont Alexeyevich Polevoy (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ???????, 1 August 1801, Irkutsk, Imperial Russia, – 21 April 1867, Tyukhmenevo, Smolensk Governorate, Imperial Russia) 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 (1836, praised by Vissarion Belinsky) and Ivan Khemnitser (1838), as well as his brother, whom he idolized (The Notes on the Life and Works by Nikolai Polevoy, 1888).
In 1835–1839 he translated from French 16 volumes of Memoires ou souvenirs historiques (1831) by Laure Junot.
In 1825–1834 he co-edited (with Nikolai Polevoy) Moskovsky Telegraf, in 1835–1838 Zhivopisnoye Obozrenye, then a yearly almanac.