Alexander Ivanovich Koshelev (; 21 May 1806 – 24 November 1883) was a Russian journalist, publicist, publisher and state official.
A staunch Slavophile, Koshelev published numerous essays, mostly on economics. In the late 1850s he authored one of the several alternative land reform projects which the Russian government had to consider before embarking upon the Emancipation reform of 1861.
In 1856 Koshelev started publishing the magazine Russkaya Beseda and two years later became its editor. Later, he published the Moscow journals Beseda (1871–1872, edited by Sergey Yuriev) and (in 1880–1882) Zemstvo (edited by Vasily Skalon), both projecting the Slavophile views upon the agricultural issues and supporting the concept of obshchina as a true foundation for the Russian rural community.Александр Иванович Кошелев at www.hrono.ru (Хронос)
Koshelev worked for several governmental offices, in the Moscow and Ryazan Governorates, but also in Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), specializing in finances, bank systems and economics.Зайцев В. М. . Фонд «Русское либеральное наследие» He was the President of the Moscow Agricultural Society and was regularly (in 1863–1865; 1869–1872; 1873–1876; 1881–1884) elected a for the Moscow City Duma.Bykov, V. Гласные Московской городской думы (1863-1917) // The Glasny's of the Moscow City Duma in 186301917 // Московский журнал. — 2009. — № 1.
Koshelev's memoirs came out posthumously in Berlin, his widow Olga Fyodorovna being wary of the possibility of the Russian censors mangling the text.Кошелев, Александр Иванович at The Great Biographical Encyclopedia
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