 Alexey Veselovsky

Alexey Nikolayevich Veselovsky (, 9 July 1843, Moscow, Russian Empire, — 25 November 1918, Moscow, Soviet Russia) was a Russian literary historian and theorist, critic, biographer and translator.Best known for his in-depth researches on Moliere, Lord Byron and European theatre, he also authored the biographies of Alexander Griboyedov, Alexander Hertzen, Jonathan Swift, Denis Diderot and Pierre Beaumarchais, among others, contributing to "Russky Vestnik", "The Artist", "Kievskaya Starina", "Russkiye Vedomosti".