Viktor Pavlovich Gaevsky

Viktor Pavlovich Gayevski Russian: Виктор Павлович Гаевский; (22 January 1826, Saint Petersburg – 2 March 1888, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian literary critic and historian. He also served as an attorney at the Regional Court of Justice.

Biography He was born to a noble family. His father, the translator , was a long-term employee of the Ministry of National Education, under Sergey Uvarov. After graduating from the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in 1845, he began serving in a legal capacity at the

In the early 1850s, he began associating with the writers from literary magazines such as Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya, Otechestvennye Zapiski, and Sovremennik (The Contemporary) . He would eventually work as an editor at the latter two, after publishing numerous articles and reviews. During this time, he married Elizaveta Polevaya, daughter of the editor and writer, Nikolai Polevoy. In the late 1850s, denunciations of an unspecified nature were directed against him, based on his relationship to Alexander Herzen, an early advocate of Socialism. He was forced to leave the commission and enter private practice.