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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Grigory Petróvich Danilevsky (1829–1890)

Danilevsky, Grigory Petróvich (dän-ēl-ef’skē). A Russian story-teller (1829–90); born at Danilovka in the government of Charkof. His stories are either descriptive of ethnographical peculiarities, and on that account specially valuable, or they are historical novels. To the former class belong: ‘The Refugees’; ‘The Refugees’ Return’; ‘Liberty.’ His principal historical novels are: ‘Mirowitsh’; ‘The Burning of Moscow’; ‘The Black Year.’