Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov (Russian: Анатолий Иванович Фаресов, 16 June 1852, — 15 October 1928) was a radical Russian publicist, literary critic and journalist.

Anatoly Faresov
Born	Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov (1852-06-16)16 June 1852 Tambov, Russian Empire
Died	15 October 1928(1928-10-15) (aged 76) Leningrad, Soviet Union
Occupation	journalist, writer, publicist, political activist

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 Zhivopisnoye Obozrenye, 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.

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[ru] Фаресов, Анатолий Иванович