20 October] 1880, Verkhneserginskii Zavod – 27 August 1956, Moscow) was a Russian Empire and Soviet writer and publisher.
[1] He was a friend if Maxim Gorky and was the editor of the fiction department of the Bolshevik newspapers Zvezda and Pravda.
From 1919 to 1924 he was director of the publishing house Vsemirnaya literatura (World Literature) under the People's Commissariat for Education.
During World War II he was director of the publishing house Sovetsky Pisatel.
A portrait of Tikhonov by the artist Yury Annenkov was sold for £4,002,500 at Christie's on 24 November 2014.