| Anatoly Faresov | |
| Birthname: | Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov |
| Birth Date: | 16 June 1852 |
| Birth Place: | Tambov, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Leningrad, Soviet Union |
| Occupation: | journalist, writer, publicist, political activist |
Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov (ru|Анатолий Иванович Фаресов; 16 June 1852, — 15 October 1928) was a radical publicist, literary critic and journalist who lived in the Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union.
Faresov was born in Tambov, into a noble family of Ivan Faresov, a Collegiate Councillor. A Narodnaya Volya activist, in 1874 he was arrested and spent four years in the Petropavlovskaya Fortress.[1] After the release Faresov started writing for several leading Russian magazines, including Zhivopisnoe obozrenie, Molva (where in 1880, as Anatolyev, he published his prison memoirs which came out as a separate edition in 1900), Delo, Novoye Vremya, Nedelya and Istorichesky Vestnik.[1]
Faresov authored numerous biographies of his contemporaries, notably of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Leskov, Iosif Kablits, Alexander Engelgardt, Alexander Sheller, Alexander Neustroyev. His stories came out in a book called My Muzhiks (Мои мужики, 1900), shorter pieces were collected in The Awakened People (Пробужденный народ. Очерки с натуры. 1908), A Nation Without Vodka (Народ без водки, 1916), Man and Sobriety (Народ и трезвость, 1917).[2] [3]
Faresov died on 15 October 1928 in Leningrad.