ALEKSEI TEOFILAKTOVICH PISEMSKIJ
\ɐlˈɛkse͡ɪ tɪˌɒfɪlɐktˈə͡ʊvɪt͡ʃ pˈa͡ɪsmskɪd͡ʒ], \ɐlˈɛkseɪ tɪˌɒfɪlɐktˈəʊvɪtʃ pˈaɪsmskɪdʒ], \ɐ_l_ˈɛ_k_s_eɪ t_ɪ__ˌɒ_f_ɪ_l_ɐ_k_t_ˈəʊ_v_ɪ_tʃ p_ˈaɪ_s_m_s_k_ɪ_dʒ]\
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A Russian novelist; born at Ramene in the government of Kostroma, March 20, 1820; died January 1881. His greatest novel is "A Thousand Souls" (1858); he wrote also "The Stormy Sea" (1863), "The Men of 1840" (1868), "In the Whirlpool" (1871). Some of his short stories are in every way admirable, among them "The Wood Demon" and "Pietershik".
By Charles Dudley Warner
