Pavel Zasodimsky


Pavel Vladimirovich Zasodimsky was a Russian writer, close to the Narodnik movement and Narodnaya Volya group. He was also known under his pen name Vologdin.
Writing mostly about the life of Russian lower classes, Zasodimsky contributed regularly to the leading Russian magazines, including Delo, Otechestvennye Zapiski, and Russkoye Bogatstvo, which he became the member of the staff in 1880, the year when his another well-known novel, The Steppe Mysteries appeared in it. Several of his novellas were published by Nablyudatel, numerous essays and sketches appeared in Severny Vestnik, Novoye Vremya, Siyaniye and Russkaya Zhizn.
Zasodimsky was a popular children’s writer; his best-known stories appeared in two collections: Soulful Stories and The True Stories and Fairytales. He owned a huge library at Nevsky, 80, in Saint Petersburg which at some point Alexander Ertel was in charge of, and which was used as a meeting place for the members of Narodnaya Volya, which Zasodimsky was in close contact with.