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Alexander Filippovich Smirdin (Russian: Александр Филиппович Смирдин, 1 February 1795, Moscow, Imperial Russia, — 28 September 1857, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a prominent Russian publisher and editor. Smirdin was the first in Russia to start selling books cheap enough to make them accessible to wide readership, and to develop the standard set of financial criteria for paying authors. He maintained strong links with the country's literary elite and, in retrospect, played a key role in the development of Russian literature in the early 19th century. Smirdin published all the best known works by Nikolai Karamzin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Alexander Pushkin, Ivan Krylov (all of whom he had fine personal relations with) as well as numerous textbooks and seminal books on history and science.
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1 February 1795
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28 September 1857 (aged 62)
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