Gromeka Stepan

(1823 - 1877), a member of Fatherland Notes', where Gromeka few years was in charge of the department "Contemporary Chronicles" and "Saint-Petersburg Vedomosti Editorial Krajewski, which printed his editorials. Gromeka placed the article in the "Contemporary" ( "Polish Jews", 1858) and "Russian Messenger" (a lot of sensational articles about the police, 1857 - 59). His article "Annapolskoe case" (Fatherland Notes, 1862) was first admitted censorship controversy with Herzen. Gromeka was one of the first journalists who have benefited from the weakening of the censorship severities for the direct, if possible, discuss current issues of Russian state and society, in the spirit of moderate-liberal. In this, as well as in the smartness of language - the solution of the attention that pay for themselves, in time, his article. Prior to the literary activity Gromeka he served as railway police officer was later chief of the department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. N.A. Milutin summoned him in 1863. in Poland, in the midst of the Polish uprising. Here he was chairman of the Commission on Peasant Affairs, and then about 10 years Sedletskii governor.