Leonid Polonsky

Leonid Alexandrovich Polonsky (, 1833 – 1913) was a Russian journalist, editor, publisher and writer who used numerous monikers, notably Lyubich, Lukyanov and Prozorov.

Career Polonsky started his career as a journalist as the head of the Foreign Policy section first in Russky Invalid (1861), then in Sovremennoye Slovo; with it he moved to Saint Peterburg's Vedomosti (1864–1865) and later revived it in Golos, Glasny Sud and Syn Otechestva. While working for Vedomosti, he launched the series of weekly 'about-the-town' satirical sketches (using the pseudonym Ivan Lyubich), which after his departure was taken up by first Viktor Burenin and later Alexey Suvorin.

Polonsky with his superb command of French, in 1881–1883 worked as a Russian correspondent for Temps newspaper. He also contributed the "Lettres de Russie" for the Paris-based Revue universelle, where he published his translations of Saltykov-Shchedrin's satires. In the late 1880s he started to write in Polish for the Petersburg-based Kraj newspaper, which he became more closely involved with in the mid-1890s. His essay Mickiewicz in Russian Literature appeared in the Mickiewicz Anthology, a supplement for Kraj. His own novel Nado zhit was translated into French by Mickiewicz's wife Celina and appeared in Revue Universelle.