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Anatoly Ivanovich Faresov (Russian: Анатолий Иванович Фаресов, 16 June 1852, Tambov, Imperial Russia, — 15 October 1928, Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a radical Russian publicist, literary critic and journalist.
A Narodnaya Volya activist, in 1874 he was arrested and spent four years in the Petropavlovskaya Fortress. After the release Faresov started writing for several leading Russian magazines, including Zhivopisnoye Obozrenye, Molva (where in 1880, as Anatolyev, he published his prison memoirs which came out as a separate edition in 1900), Delo, Novoye Vremya, Nedelya and Istorichesky Vestnik.
Faresov authored numerous biographies of his contemporaries, notably of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Leskov, Iosif Kablits, Alexander Engelgardt, Alexander Sheller, Alexander Neustroyev. His stories came out in a book called My Muzhiks (Мои мужики, 1900), shorter pieces were collected in The Awakened People (Пробужденный народ. Очерки с натуры. 1908), The Nation Without Vodka (Народ без водки, 1916), Man and Sobriety (Народ и трезвость, 1917).