Background
GORBUNOV-POSADOV, Ivan was born on April 16, 1864. Son of an engineering
GORBUNOV-POSADOV, Ivan was born on April 16, 1864. Son of an engineering
Graduate business college.
From 1884 promoted ideas of L. North. Tolstoy. 1885-1897 associate, from 1897 life-director, Tolstoy's Posrednik Publ House, which published mainly fiction and home-study books for the general publication Compiled numerous anthologies of short stories, verse, parables, et cetera
Published children's journal Mayan, journal Svobodnoye vospitaniye, etc, in which he preached educational through work. Was subjected to reprisals by tsarist authorities for his Tolstoian views. October 1917-1925 resumed directorship of Posrednik Publ House.
Continued work in pedag and children's literature