years Veinberg was an active member of the Russian Literary Fund. In 1905 he was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy. Using his authority he did a lot to help authors persecuted by the government for political reasons; Maxim Gorky, German Lopatin and others. English translations The Dostoevsky Archive: Firsthand Accounts of the Novelist from Contemporaries' Memoirs and Rare Periodicals, (includes two accounts of Dostoyevsky by Pyotr Veinberg), McFarland & Company, 1997. References External links 1831 births 1908 deaths Writers from Mykolaiv People from Kherson Governorate Ukrainian Jews Poets from the Russian Empire Russian male poets Members of the Russian Academy Translators from the Russian Empire Journalists from the Russian Empire Russian male journalists Male writers from the Russian Empire Educators from the Russian Empire Russian literary historians Jews from the Russian Empire National University of Kharkiv alumni 19th-century poets from the Russian Empire 19th-century translators from the Russian Empire 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire Jewish Russian writers Russian magazine editors