Frederick Whishaw (1854 - 1934)

Russian-born British novelist, historian, poet and musician. He was a popular author of children's fiction at the turn of the 20th century and was a prolific historical novelist, many of his books being set in Czarist Russia, and his "schoolboy" and adventure serials appeared in many boys' magazines of the era. Whishaw was also one of the first translators of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the first in the English language.