Alexander Fyodorov-Davydov

Alexander Alexandrovich Fyodorov-Davydov (, 16 November 1875 – 26 December 1936) was a Russian children's writer, translator, editor and publisher.

Career Having debuted with his first book (Zimniye Sumerki, Winter Twilight) in 1895, he authored in all 125 books and brochures for children, as well as a wealth of essays, sketches and articles. He translated into Russian the fairytales by Brothers Grimm (1900) and Hans Christian Andersen (1907) and in 1908 published an acclaimed compilation of Russian mystical folklore.

After the October Revolution, Fyodorov-Davydov wrote up to forty books for young children and collaborated with the magazine Murzilka. His best post-revolutionary work is The Pranks of Pus-karapuz. A. A. Fyodorov-Davydov’s book The Adventures of Murzilka, the Remarkably Quick Little Dog went through several editions in the late 1920s.

Personal Life and Death He died in 1936 and was buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery.

The art scholar Aleksei Fedorov-Davydov (1900-1969) was his son. German Fedorov-Davydov (1931-2000), a Soviet historian and archeologist was his grandson.