Alexander Fyodorov-Davydov

Alexander Alexandrovich Fyodorov-Davydov (Russian: Александр Александрович Фёдоров-Давыдов, 16 November 1875 – 26 December 1936) was a Russian children's writer, translator, editor and publisher.

He translated into Russian the fairytales by Brothers Grimm (1900) and Hans Christian Andersen (1907) and in 1908 published an acclaimed compilation of Russian mystical folklore.

[1] Fyodorov-Davydov edited and published three journals for children: Delo i Potekha (Business and Fun), Putevodny Ogonyok (Guiding Light) and Ogonyok, the first ever Russian magazine addressed to the readership of four to eight years of age.

Among the authors he's managed to engage in these publications were Anton Chekhov, Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Pavel Zasodimsky, Konstantin Stanyukovich and Kazimir Barantsevich.

German Fedorov-Davydov (1931-2000), a Soviet historian and archeologist was his grandson.