Background
Nikolay Alexandrovich Alexandrov was born on Novebmer 11, 1841 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation (according to other sources – the city of Stavropol, Russian Federation). He was the son of an official.
journalist author of ethnographic essays
Nikolay Alexandrovich Alexandrov was born on Novebmer 11, 1841 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation (according to other sources – the city of Stavropol, Russian Federation). He was the son of an official.
Nikolay Alexandrovich studied at the 1st Kiev gymnasium (1849-1856, expelled at the request of his father), attended lectures at Kharkov, Moscow, Saint Petersburg (in 1863 at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics) Universities.
Nikolay Alexandrovich began his literary work as a journalist: in 1864–1865 he was (together with N.I. Shulgin) the unofficial editor of the newspaper "Yakor" ("Anchor") and the satirical supplement to it, the leaflet "Osa" ("Wasp"), in which he published, as he said, a series of feuilletons and articles, and in the "Osa" he published verses.
In 1866-1868 Nikolay Alexandrovich led the section "Criticism and Bibliography" in the "Zhensky Vestnik" ("Women’s Bulletin"). In 1868 he participated in editing the "Sovremennoe Obozrenie" ("Modern Review"), was published in the "Delo" ("Case").
In the early 70s Nikolay Alexandrovich led the art department in the "Birzhevye Vedomosti" ("Exchange Records)", the "Vsemirnaya Illustratsiya" ("World illustration"), the "Pchela" ("Bee"). In 1874, after moving to Moscow, he edited the "Russkaya Gazeta" ("Russian Newspaper") (1875-1876), collaborated on the "Russkaya Pravda" ("Russian Truth") (1878), and, returning to Saint Petersburg, headed the journalism department at the "Peterburgsky Listok" ("Petersburg Leaflet") (1879-1880), collaborated on the "Slovo" ("Word"), the "Novoe Vremya" ("New time").
Nikolay Alexandrovich founded the "Khudozhestvenny Zhurnal" ("Art Journal") (edited it in 1880-1887), devoted to the problems of Russian fine art, – "the first serious attempt of a real art publication in Russia in a completely European sense", with the enclosure of an art album.
In 1891-1892, in the journal "Khudozhnik" ("Artist") he led the column "Behind the Scenes of the Artists", posting a series of critical biographical essays about contemporary sculptors and painters; propagandized the work of the Itinerants, but by the end of the 90s changed the attitude towards them. In 1896, editing the journal "Sever" ("North"), he was publishing poems by I.A. Bunin (A. A. Corinfsky wrote to Bunin: "...Send it there, to Alexandrov – your muse caught him fancy").
In the early 70s, as a member of the Saint Petersburg Pedagogical Commission of Public Reading in the Solyanoy Gorodok (the complex of buildings in the center of Saint Petersburg), Nikolay Alexandrovich prepared a number of popular science essays that formed the basis of his collections of ethnographic stories for children. Together with A.N. Pleshcheev, he published a literary collection for children "On a Holiday" (1873; among the authors are Ya.P. Polonsky, N.A. Nekrasov, N.S. Kurochkin and Alexandrov himself), which was criticized as "serious pedagogical enterprise".
Nikolay Alexandrovich died in a shelter on June 20, 1907 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
