Gontcharoff, IVAN ALEXANDROVITCH (1813-91), Russian novelist, was born a merchant's son at Simbirsk, and for many years was in a government office at St Petersburg. A Common Story was translated in 1894; The Oblomovs is his masterpiece.
Gontcharoff, IVAN ALEXANDROVITCH
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 294
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