Vasily Timiryazev
19th-century Russian literary figure, journalist, theatre critic, and translator · Russia · On the map · Journalists · Lived 1841 to 1912 · aged 71
Vasily Arkadyevich Timiryazev was a Russian literary figure, journalist, theatre critic, and polyglot translator. He translated works of Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Bret Harte, Émile Zola, George Sand (Valentine), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, John Stuart Mill, among others.
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Vasily top left and Kliment bottom left with students of Saint Petersburg University, 1864
Photograph of V. A. Timiryazev from the archive of A. F. Koni, 1870s
M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's autograph to V. A. Timiryazev on the book The Pompadours, A. S. Suvorin edition, 1879
The younger brother, like Vasily, was an Anglophile. K. A. Timiryazev in the robe of honorary doctor of the University of Glasgow, 1902
A. S. Suvorin left and S. N. Shubinsky right
