Background
Dmitry Mikhailovich Poznyak was born on January 6, 1843 in Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine.
Dmitry Mikhailovich Poznyak was born on January 6, 1843 in Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine.
The initial education started in Saratov under the guidance of the professor of Kiev University S. Gogotsky and well known historian N. Kostomarov. Then he entered the Saratov gymnasium and in the fifth grade published his first ethnographic work: "Two weeks In the Golden bukey Horde."
After graduating from high school, D.M. Pozdnyak entered Moscow University at the faculty of law. After graduation from the University he was awarded the degree of candidate of Sciences in 1864.
Dmitry Mikhailovich Poznyak began his service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Department of internal relations, but from the end of 1866 moved to the officials of special assignments at the chief of the North-West region. Since then, almost twenty-five years of his career he worked on the outskirts. During the same period, he published a number of interesting letters called "From the outskirts" in the newspaper "Moscow Vedomosti".
Since 1890 D.M. Pozdnyak was transferred to Voronezh by the Vice-Governor, but he occupied this place only for three years. On May 19, 1893 he was appointed as a member of the Council of the General Directorate for press Affairs and held this position until his death.
Poznyak's fictional and memoir works were published in the journal "Russky Vestnik": the novels "Under the Clouds" (1882), "In a Foreign Environment" (1883), "Dear Price" (1885), "Through the Fire of Passion" (1887), "Enemy Power" (1892) and other works.
Pozniak took part in a literary dinner, organized on the initiative of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (St. Petersburg, January 1894).
In the last years of his life he was a Voronezh Vice-Governor, then a member of the main Department for press Affairs.