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Khariton Boris Iosifovich (1876-1940)

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surnameKhariton
nameBoris
patronymIosifovich
birth_year1876
death_year1940

Khariton (Hariton) Boris Iosifovich (1876 – after 1940) - journalist.

Boris Khariton graduated from the university in Kyiv. In 1901–02, he published and edited the newspaper Yuzhny Courier in Kerch, which was regarded as one of the best provincial newspapers, and edited the newspaper Vestnik Yuga in Yekaterinoslav. From 1904, he worked for newspapers in Saint Petersburg. In 1906, he edited Illustrated Week, a supplement to the newspaper Rech, and also Reforma, an editorial organ of the Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) newspaper Rech. In 1907, he became editor of Reforma.

In 1919–20, he was a member of the governing board of the House of Writers in Petrograd and participated in the publication of the Chronicle of the House of Writers. In 1922, he was expelled abroad together with a group of writers and philosophers. From 1922 to 1924, he lived in Germany, where he edited the journal Spolokhi. From 1924 onwards, he resided in Latvia. He worked for the Riga newspapers Narodnaya Mysl and Ponedelnik. He was the permanent editor of the newspaper Segodnya Vecherom (the evening edition of the newspaper Segodnya), which was published until 15 July 1940. He also participated in the work of the publishing house Zhizn i Kultura.

Boris Khariton edited collected works of Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Lermontov, and Alexander Pushkin. He was arrested in 1940.