Background
Nikolai Ivanovich Volokitin was born on 8 June,1835 in Moscow, Russian Federation. He was the son of a merchant.
Nikolai Ivanovich Volokitin was born on 8 June,1835 in Moscow, Russian Federation. He was the son of a merchant.
Nikolai Ivanovich was home-schooled. He studied at the medical faculty of the Moscow University (from 1855), but in 1859 was expelled from the 4th year for non-payment.
In 1860-1861, Nikolai Ivanovich published journalistic articles, reviews translated from English in the journal Zanoza, humorous sketches in the magazines Russkiy Pedagogicheskiy Vestnik, Uchitel, Osnova, Zarya. Since 1864, he collaborated with the newspaper Petersburgskiy listok, becoming one of the first professional Russian reporters.
In 1866-1867, Nikolai Ivanovich became the actual editor of the newspaper Petersburg Commissioner, in 1868 her successor, the weekly newspaper Petersburg, placed there articles, feuilletons and stories. Under the pseudonym "Chronicler of the 19th Century," he published the pamphlet Literary Fair, where he mocked M.N. Katkov, A.A. Kraevsky, P.D. Boborykin, Vs. Krestovsky, D.D. Minaev and many other contemporary writers and journalists.
In 1868-1869 Nikolai Ivanovich collaborated as a publicist and feuilletonist in the New Time. He became widely known as the creator of the Society of Reporters, which served the majority of editorial offices of St. Petersburg newspapers and exploited the work of young writers. D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak, who was part of the Society and maintained close ties with Volokitin at the beginning of his career, made him the prototype of Molodin in the autobiographical novel Features from the Life of Pepko.
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1981Quotes from others about the person
A. Sokolov: "As a reporter, he was omniscient, and if anyone in those years belonged to the title of "king of reporters", then this is Volokitin."