Konstantin Arsenyev

In this name that followsEastern Slavic naming customs,thepatronymicisKonstantinovichand thefamily nameisArsenyev.

Konstantin Arsenyev
Born	Константин Константинович Арсеньев (1837-02-05)5 February 1837 Moscow,Russian Empire
Died	22 March 1919(1919-03-22)(aged 82) Petrograd,Soviet Russia
Occupation(s)	writer, journalist, essayist, lawyer, politician

Konstantin Konstantinovich Arsenyev(Russian:Константин Константинович Арсеньев,5 February 1837, Saint Petersburg,Imperial Russia,— 22 March 1919,Petrograd,Soviet Russia) was a Russianjournalist,essayist,lawyer,historianand, in his later years, a liberal politician.

Having started out inRussky Vestnikin 1858–1861 with a series of articles on history, in 1859—1860 Arsenyev moved on to become the deputy editor of the newly bornZhurnal Ministerstva Yustitsiyi(The Journal of the Ministry of Justice) before joining in 1862Otechestvennye Zapiskiwhere he became known for his series of essays on theBritish constitutionand was for a while a Foreign Review department editor. After a two decades' career of a respectable lawyer (which resulted in, among other things, three critically lauded books onjurisprudence,published in 1870-1875) he retired and joined the staff ofSeverny Vestnik,the magazine to which he had been sporadically contributing since its inception in 1866. Numerous critical and analytical essays on, among others,Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin,Gleb UspenskyandFyodor Dostoyevsky,composed his 1888 bookCritical Etudes on Russian Literature(Критические этюды по русской литературе).

A long-standing member of the Russian Literary Fund chairmanship committee, in 1880s Arsenyev served several terms as its chairman. In 1891, withFyodor Petrushevsky,he started editing theBrockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.Arsenyev was elected an honourable member of the Law Society at theSaint Petersburg Universityas well as of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (both in 1900) and the Free Economic Society (1903).

In his later life Arsenyev moved into politics to become one of the leaders of the liberal monarchistParty of Democratic Reform.