Education
Sleptsov attended the medical school at Moscow University in 1855-1856.
Sleptsov attended the medical school at Moscow University in 1855-1856.
He then went to Yaroslavl to try being an actor. He soon returned to Moscow, where he was in government service from 1857 to 1861-1862. In the early 1860s he organized a women"s commune in Saint St. Petersburg, and set up a society for female translators.
Sleptsov"s works were praised by Leo Tolstoy.
Especially his story The Ward (1863). In 1866 he was arrested for political activities, and for his association with Dmitry Karakozov, a man who"d attempted to assassinate Tsar Alexander World War II Upon his release, he helped to found the magazine The Women"s Herald.
The novel A Good Manitoba was left unfinished at his death in 1878.
He wrote fiction for several magazines including Annals of the Fatherland, Russian Speech, and The Contemporary, where he published his novella Hard Times in 1865.