Dmitry Stakheyev

Dmitry Ivanovich Stakheyev was a Russian writer, poet and journalist.

Biography

Born in Elabuga into an affluent merchant family, Stakheyev started his literary career in 1860s in Saint Petersburg, as a regular contributor of stories, sketches and poems to the magazines Iskra, Delo and Budilnik. In the course of two decades he grew into a popular fiction writer, whose best-known works included the novels Na Zakate, Studenty, Domashny Ochag, Obnovlyuonny Khram, Neugasayushchi Svet, Gory Zolota and Dukha Ne Ugashayte. The critic Nikolai Strakhov, reviewing Stakheyev's early novella Nasledniki, lauded the liveliness of his prose and proclaimed him to be heir to Nikolai Gogol.
Stakheyev travelled a lot through Western Europe and published numerous tourist sketches. He edited the magazines Niva, Russkiy Mir and Russky Vestnik in 1896. He spent the last two decades of his life in Crimea, where he died, in Alushta, in 1918.