author
Fedor Alexis Postnikov
b. 1872
A Russian-born writer remembered today for a vivid children's book set among the Cossacks of Siberia, he brought readers into a world shaped by frontier life, tradition, and adventure. His surviving published work offers a rare English-language glimpse of Siberian Cossack childhood in the early 20th century.
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Our Little Cossack Cousin in Siberia
by Fedor Alexis Postnikov
About the author
Born on February 29, 1872, Fedor Alexis Postnikov is identified in library and publishing records as the author of Our Little Cossack Cousin in Siberia, published in Boston by The Page Company in 1916.
That book, later preserved by the Library of Congress, Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg, presents life among the Ussuri Cossacks for young readers. It is the work most clearly connected to his name in widely available catalog records, and it remains the main reason he is still discoverable today.
Reliable biographical information about Postnikov is scarce in the sources available here, so many details of his life remain unclear. Even so, his book stands out as a small but memorable contribution to children's literature about Russia and Siberia.