Background
Vasily Filippovich Matveev was born on January 24, 1860 in Voronezh Region, Russian Federation.
Vasily Filippovich Matveev was born on January 24, 1860 in Voronezh Region, Russian Federation.
Until 1881 Vasily Filippovich studied at Voronezh Theological Seminary.
Vasily Filippovich was a lecturer in Voronezh Mikhailovsky Cadet Corps (from 1893). He was a member of the literary and artistic group named after A.P. Chekhov (Voronezh, 1918-1919).
His works were published in the Petersburg comic magazine "Shards", "Dragonfly", "Alarm Clock" (1st half of the 1880s). He worked for the Voronezh newspaper "Don". He had a handwritten diary of a reader, met in Voronezh with the poet Fyodor Kuzmich Sologub (1914, 1916), and corresponded with his wife, writer Anastasia Nikolaevna Chebotarevskaya (St. Petersburg).