Russian author, born in Zhitomir, Russia, on the 15th of July 1853; when studying in the University of Moscow his liberal ideas caused trouble, and finally he was exiled to eastern Siberia in 1879; returning in 1885, he settled at Nizhni-Novgorod. His writings are of a popular nature, and nearly all works of fiction. Several were translated into English. He wrote The Vagrant (1888); The Blind Musician and In Two Moods (1890–91); The Master’s Dream; Sokolinets; In Bad Society; The Forest Murmurs.
