August 26], 1857, Kosma village, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire – March 19, 1920, Petrograd, Soviet Russia)[1] was a Russian philologist, editor (Kosmopolis, 1897–1898; Mir Bozhy, 1902–1906), literary critic, theatre and literary historian.

He was a distant relative (great-nephew) of Konstantin Batyushkov, a renowned early 19th-century poet.

One of the leading literary critics of his times, Batyshkov reviewed works by all the prominent Russian authors of the time: Leonid Andreev, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Kuprin, Ivan Bunin, Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov among many others.

[1] A French and Italian literature scholar, Batyushkov, wrote numerous treatises and essays (on Jean Racine, Victor Hugo, Middle Age European authors), and was an editor and co-author of The History of the Western Literature in 3 volumes (1912–1914).

A biographer of prominent Russian dramatists (Lev Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov among others), Batyushkov regularly reviewed theatre productions and in 1917 became a head of the Saint Petersburg State Theatres committee before being fired by Lunacharsky.