Anatoly Faresov

Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov (; 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. 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.

Faresov died on 15 October 1928 in Leningrad.