Nevill Forbes

“ On leaving Oxford without graduating he worked for three years as a schoolmaster. In 1859 he went to Russia, and in 1862 was elected, after competitive examination, professor of English literature at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in St. Petersburg. In 1864 he was, again by competitive examination, appointed lector of the English language in the Imperial University of St. Petersburg. That post he held for life. On occasional visits to England he frequently lectured on Russian literature. He was highly respected both by the British colony in St. Petersburg and by Russian friends and colleagues. ”

“ In 1889 he lectured at the Taylorian Institute in Oxford on ‘The Modern Novelists of Russia,’ which he amplified for publication in 1890. In 1893 he issued a translation of C. A. Behrs' ‘Recollections of Count Leo Tolstoy,’ and in 1899, simultaneously in London and St. ”