Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov (Russian: Анатолий Иванович Фаресов; 16 June 1852, — 15 October 1928) was a radical publicist, literary critic and journalist who lived in the Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union.

A Narodnaya Volya activist, in 1874 he was arrested and spent four years in the Petropavlovskaya Fortress.

[1] After the release Faresov started writing for several leading Russian magazines, including Zhivopisnoe obozrenie, Molva (where in 1880, as Anatolyev, he published his prison memoirs which came out as a separate edition in 1900), Delo, Novoye Vremya, Nedelya and Istorichesky Vestnik.

[1] Faresov authored numerous biographies of his contemporaries, notably of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Leskov, Iosif Kablits, Alexander Engelgardt, Alexander Sheller, Alexander Neustroyev.

His stories came out in a book called My Muzhiks (Мои мужики, 1900), shorter pieces were collected in The Awakened People (Пробужденный народ.