Apollon Grigoryev

Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev (Russian: Аполло́н Алекса́ндрович Григо́рьев, IPA: [ɐpɐˈlon ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪf] ; 20 July 1822 – 7 October 1864) was a Russian poet, literary and theatrical critic, translator, memoirist and author of popular art songs. One historian called him "the best of the non-radical literary critics in the nineteenth century and arguably the greatest of all of Russia's critics in the century."