Vissarion Komarov

Vissarion Vissarionovich Komarov (, 26 October 1838—4 January 1908) was a Russian journalist, editor and an Imperial Russian Army colonel who in 1876 was promoted to the rank of the Serbian army general for his victories in several battles he conducted against the Turkish army during the Montenegrin–Ottoman War, in 1876. In 1882 he founded his own newspaper Svet (Light) which he remained with until his death, and was extremely proud of. Among the authors whose work appeared there regularly, was historical novelist Grigory Danilevsky, whose daughter Komarov had married. He also published Zvezda magazine (in 1886—1891), Slavyanskiye Izvestiya (1889—1891) and in 1902—1906 Russky Vestnik. His nephew and godson was Vladimir L. Komarov.