Vladimir Meshchersky
Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky (11 January 1839[1] – 23 July 1914[2]) was a Russian journalist and novelist.
He was the grandson of historian Nikolay Karamzin.[3]
Meshchersky was editor of Grazhdanin (The Citizen), a traditional conservative newspaper which received subsidies from the imperial authorities.[4] He also contributed to the periodicals Russkii Vestnik (The Russian Messenger) and Moskovskiye Vedomosti (Moscow News). He was the author of several novels and memoirs.
He was a friend of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and acquired a reputation as a homosexual philanderer.[5] His patrons, the Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II, protected him from public disgrace.[6]
References
- ^ Ruvigny, Marquis of (1914) The Titled Nobility of Europe, London: Harrison and Sons, page 1008.
- ^ "Czar's Adviser, Mestchersky, dies", New York Times, 24 July 1914
- ^ Richard Denis Charques (1965) The twilight of imperial Russia, Oxford University Press, p. 51
- ^ Richard Taruskin (2000) Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays, Princeton University Press, p. 281
- ^ Peter Stoneley (2007) A queer history of the ballet, Taylor and Francis, p. 53
- ^ Alexander Poznansky (1999) Tchaikovsky through others' eyes, Indiana University Press, p. 77
- Out of My Past: The Memoirs of Count Kokovtsov Edited by H.H. Fisher and translated by Laura Matveev; Stanford University Press, 1935.
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Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky |
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Tsarist journalist |
| Date of birth |
c. 1845 |
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| Date of death |
23 July 1914 |
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