Blagov, Fedor Ivanovich

He came from a merchant family of the Romanovo-Borisoglebsky district of the Yaroslavl province . He graduated from the 5th Moscow gymnasium (1886) and the medical faculty of Moscow University (1892). For some time he worked as a doctor in the Mariinsky hospital, in the Crafts almshouse and in the Alexander School with her; then moved away from medical practice ^[1] .

He married the daughter of I. D. Sytin , M. I. Sytina and became a shareholder and a member of the board of the trading house “I. D. Sytin "; He participated in the editing of a number of Sytinsky publications. Since May 1901 he was the official editor-in-chief of the Russian Word newspaper . One of his contemporaries wrote about him:

This was a hard worker who went into business with his head and almost refused his personal life for the sake of the newspaper. He merged with The Russian Word, so related to his employees that he looked at the newspaper as a big family, his family. F. I. spent thousands of sleepless nights at his desk, and here, at this desk, was his life, his joy, his pride, his happiness. “Everything for the newspaper and nothing for myself” - this was the main motto, and he carried this banner to the end

In 1901 and 1905 he was elected the vowel of the Moscow City Duma . In the City Duma, F. I. Blagov supported the cadet group ^[1] .

After the October Revolution of 1917, he collaborated with publications in the territories controlled by the governments of the South of Russia. In 1919 he emigrated (with his second family ^[2] ) to Romania, in 1922 he moved to Czechoslovakia, then to France. He was the Parisian representative of the Far Eastern newspapers Zarya, New Shanghai Newspaper, etc. He died on April 29, 1934 in Paris, and was buried in the cemetery in Vanves ^[3] .