Maxim Antonovich  Maxim Alexeyevich Antonovich (, 9 May 1835, – 14 November 1918) was a Russian literary critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher. Maxim Antonovich was born in Belopolye, Kharkov Governorate, to the family of a clergyman. After studying at the Kharkiv seminary he enrolled in the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy which he graduated in 1859. Antonovich's literary career started in "Sovremennik" where several articles promoting the philosophy of materialism brought him the reputation of an "ideological heir to Chernyshevsky." As a head of the magazine's literary criticism department (a position he took after Nikolai Dobrolyubov's death) Antonovich waged bitter feuds against "Vremya", "Epokha", and later "Russkoye Slovo", after his slagging of Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" in 1862 outraged Dmitry Pisarev and a violent confrontation ensued which Fyodor Dostoyevsky called "the break-up of the Russian nihilism." As Nekrasov refused Antonovich an invitation to the renewed "Otechestvennye Zapiski" in 1869, he accused the former in "betrayal of the old friends" and turned to translation work ("Histoire de la Revolution Française" by Louis Blanc, "Physics" by Balfour Stewart, "The Teaching of Geography" by Archibald Geikie, "Textbook of Physiology" by Michael Foster, among others). In 1898—1916 he published memoirs on Nikolai Dobrolyubov, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Nekrasov and Pyotr Lavrov. Antonovich died on 14 November 1918 in Petrograd, Soviet Russia.