ELENI Fyodor Pavlovich

Alias Skaldin
(17.IY.1827, g. Riverlands (currently Demidov) Smolensk province - 10.II.1902, St. Petersburg)
In 1839-44 he. Smolensk was in high school, then - at Moscow University. Participated in the preparation of the peasant reform of 1861,. as Secretary of the Editing Commissions. In 1867-69 he. in "Notes of the Fatherland" has published a series of essays "In the wilderness and in the capital" (published in book form in 1870), . trained on the materials in the main province of Smolensk, . which showed, . that plots, . received during the liberation of the peasants from serfdom, . clearly insufficient to, . hatya to ensure minimum conditions of existence, . maintenance management and timely payment of taxes, . various fees and levies, . which steadily,
. "In the wilderness and in the capital was one of the first books in which the liberal author saw the negative effects of the 1861 reform

Lit.: Buda DI. Historians Smolensk XVIII - beginning of the twentieth century .- Smolensk, 1993.