Vasily Sleptsov

Vasily Sleptsov (1836-1878) wrote fiction for several magazines, including Annals of the Fatherland, Russian Speech, and the Contemporary, where he published his novella Hard Times in 1865. He went on to found the magazine the Women’s Herald, establish the Znamenskaya commune for women, and become an activist for women’s equality. Michael R. Katz is C.V. Starr Professor Emeritus at Middlebury College. He is the author of two monographs and is a renowned translator of Russian literature, and who has published English versions of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Chekhov. William C. Brumfield is professor of Slavic languages at Tulane University and has published extensively on mid-19th century Russian literature, with a special emphasis on Vasily Sleptsov.