Vasily Skalon
Vasily Yurievich Skalon was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist, editor and later in life, political activist.
A major authority on the history and the current problems of Russian zemstvo, Skalon published a set of influential essays on the matter, mostly in Russkaya Letopis, Russkiye Vedomosti and Vestnik Evropy. His series of articles for Alyabyev's Gramotei magazine came out as a book in 1872 only to be banned and later destroyed by the special order of the Ministry of Finance. A compilation Questions of Zemstvo. Sketches and Reviews came out as a separate edition in 1882. Skalon edited the magazines Zemstvo and, in 1886–1888, The Works of the Free Economic Society. In early 1900s he moved into politics and became a member of first the Union of Liberation and later the Russian Constitutional Democratic Party.
