Nepenin Adrian Ivanovich
Gradovsky Grigiry Konstantinovich
Moiseenko Pyotr Anisimovich
Anton Alexandrovich Amosov was born on July 10, 1854 in Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation. He was from the famous Amosov dynasty of the Arkhangelsk merchants and shipbuilders. A distant relative of the Decembrist A.G. Nepenin. He lost his father at an early age (1860). Anton Alexandrovich died on September 14, 1915 in Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation.
Anton Alexandrovich graduated from the Arkhangelsk Modern Gymnasium (1865-1875). In 1875-1880 he lived in Saint Petersburg. Being Эone of those realists who are blocked from access to collegeЭ, during these years he audited the natural department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Saint Petersburg University. In 1879 he entered the School of Foresty, but in 1880 he dropped out.
Anton Alexandrovich collaborated in the newspaper "Russkoye Obozrenie" ("Russian Review"), where in 1877 he placed, under the pen-name A-ov, the "Essay on the Pechora Region" and the "Essay on the Mezen County of the Arkhangelsk Province" in which based on statistics and personal observations, he described the plight of the vast territory.
In 1878 in that newspaper he published the poem "The Pharisees" (pen-name A.-sky), and also under the pen-name A. Arkhangelsky – the poem "Black clouds float in the sky..." and "On the road".
In Petersburg, Anton Alexandrovich was in great poverty. In 1880 at the request of N.K. Mikhailovsky, he received a loan from the Literary Fund. He lived in Arkhangelsk, where after the assassination of Alexander II, his stay "from voluntary turned into involuntary". In 1887 he met the worker-revolutionary P.A. Moiseenko, according to whom the poem "He is walking tiredly and the chains are ringing..." was sung by political exiles in Siberia in 1880.
Since 1887, Anton Alexandrovich served in the office of the governor, then in the Prison Committee (1889-1891), in 1893 resigned. In 1899 Anton Alexandrovich returned to service (official of special assignments under the governor). In 1905-1906 he was the editor of the unofficial part of the "Arkhangelskie Gubernskie Vedomosti" ("Arkhangelsk Provincial Records"). In 1891-1893 and since 1906 was an official on peasant affairs in the Kolsk, Arkhangelsk, Mezensk, Pinezhsk and Kholmagorsk counties. In 1913 he resined (collegiate assessor).
