Background
Mikhail Stasyulevich was born in Saint St. Petersburg to the family of a doctor.
Mikhail Stasyulevich was born in Saint St. Petersburg to the family of a doctor.
Having graduated the Saint St. Petersburg University"s Philology faculty in 1847, five years later he was invited to teach the children of the Russian monarch"s family and in 1860-1862 was a personal history tutor for tsesarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich.
He was also the author of numerous articles on contemporary Russian literature, and later literary memoirs (on Ivan Goncharov and Aleksey K Tolstoy, among others). In the Soviet times Stasyulevich"s name was forgotten. His grave in the Voskresenskaya church was destroyed in the late 1920s, as well as the church itself.
The first comprehensive study of his legacy, A Manitoba of His Times, was written by Viktor Kelner and published in 1993.