Background
Anatoly Alexandrovich Alexandrov was born on March 28, 1861 in Savencovo village, Russian Federation.
Anatoly Alexandrovich Alexandrov was born on March 28, 1861 in Savencovo village, Russian Federation.
From 1875 Anatoly Alexandrovich studied at the Lomonosov Seminary at the Katkon Lyceum in Moscow (where Alexandrov's father taught literature in primary school for some time), using the special patronage of M.N. Katkov. After graduating from seminary in 1883 (with gold medal), he studied at the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University, "being a student of the university department of the lyceum and using the free room and desk from the lyceum." At the end of the course (1887) he was left to prepare for a professional title in the department of Russian literature.
In 1891-1898, Anatoly Alexandrovich was a privat-docent at Moscow University, but he taught mainly in secondary schools in Moscow - at a private women's gymnasium of Z.D. Perepelkina, at the lyceum (1897-1898), at the Lomonosov women's gymnasium in Riga (1903-1905).
He began to write poetry at the Lyceum, read them on the "Fridays" of P.E. Astafyev. In 1888, on the recommendation of K.N. Leontyev, whom he met in 1884, and from 1887 was in correspondence, was invited by L.N. Tolstoy as a tutor to his son Andrei. At the same time, Tolstoy offered Anatoly Alexandrovich to write an article "A Brief History of the Kingdom of Egypt" for the journal "Sotrudnic" ("Employee") (1889).
From the beginning of 90s he published poems in the journal "Russkoye Obozreniye" ("Russian Review"), "Russky Vestnik" ("Russian Messenger"), "Istorichesky Vestnik" ("Historic Messenger"), the newspaper "Moskovskiye Vedomosti" ("Moscow Records"), etc., combining them in the collection "Poems" (1912).
In 1892-1898, with the support of Pobedonostsev and the Minister of Public Education I.D. Delyanov, who sought to revive the "Katkov spirit" in print, Anatoly Alexandrovich published and edited the journal "Russkoye Obozreniye". In 1895, he founded the newspaper "Russkoe Slovo" ("Russian Word"), was its editor and publisher until 1898. After 1917 Anatoly Alexandrovich retired from literary activity.