Background
Arseny Ivanovich Vvedensky was born on October 26, 1844, in Tver', Russian Federation. He was the son of a deacon of the Tver Filippovskoy church.
Saint Petersburg State University
essayist historian literary critic
Arseny Ivanovich Vvedensky was born on October 26, 1844, in Tver', Russian Federation. He was the son of a deacon of the Tver Filippovskoy church.
Arseny Ivanovich graduated from the Theological School (1857), then the Theological Seminary in Tver. In 1865-1867 he studied at the Physics and Mathematics Department of Saint Petersburg University (now Saint Petersburg State University).
Having left the university, Arseny Ivanovich served as a home teacher in a noble family, in the Volyn province. In the fall of 1871, he applied for admission to the historical-philological faculty of Saint Petersburg University, but the lack of a behavior certificate prevented him from entering the university. In 1871-1875 as a volunteer he attended lectures at the university, earning a living from lessons.
Arseny Ivanovich debuted as a literary critic in 1876 and, contributing mostly to Slovo, Severny Vestnik, Vestnik Evropy, Delo, Niva, and Istorichesky Vestnik, published numerous reviews and analytical surveys on Nikolai Leskov, Nikolai Leykin, Evgeny Salias De Tournemire, Vsevolod Krestovsky, Vladimir Korolenko, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Vsevolod Garshin, among others.
In 1891-1893 he compiled and edited the works of Alexander Griboyedov, Ivan Kozlov, Alexey Koltsov, Alexander Polezhayev, Mikhail Lomonosov, Denis Fonvizin and Catherine the Great, all of which came out as Niva literary supplements. In 1891 he edited the first academic-type edition of the Complete M.Y. Lermontov in 4 volumes.