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Orest Mikhailovich Somov (; – ) was a Russian Romanticism writer.
He studied at Kharkiv University, where he became an admirer of Romanticism and Gothic fiction.
In 1817 he moved to Saint Petersburg where he continued his literary career. In addition to being a writer and translator, he established himself as a critic, editor and publisher, thus becoming one of the first professional men of letters in the Russian Empire. Somov was drawn to the folklore of his native Ukraine and much of his writing refers to Ukrainian history and folklore. Orest Somov, "Authors, about"
Somov was a popular writer during his lifetime. His works on Ukrainian themes made a big impact on the literary canon of the 1820s.Krys, Svitlana 2016, The Unknown Ukrainian: Orest Somov’s Prose as a Window to Early Nineteenth-Century Ukraine, “The Witches of Kyiv and Other Gothic Tales: Selected Works of Orest Somov”, Sova Books, Sydney His literary works were widely read and his critical opinion was highly regarded. After his death, although Orest Somov's works were included in anthologies of 19th-century Russian literature, he was forgotten by the general public. Only in 1984 that Orest Somov returned to the Russian reader. The publishing house "Soviet Russia" has published a collection of works by Orest Somov: Byli i nebylitsy. The compiler of the collection: Nina Petrunina. She is the author of the introductory article to the book: "Orest Somov and his prose."
In 1989 Yuriy Vynnychuk translated several of Somov's works into Ukrainian and included them inVynnychuk, Yuriy 1989, (compl.) Ohnianyi Zmii: Ukrainska hotychna proza XIX st. The, Molod, Kyiv collection Ukrainian Gothic prose.
He is distantly related to the American actor René Auberjonois; Auberjonois' maternal grandfather's mother was a Russian noblewoman, Eudoxia Michailovna Somova (1850–1924), a collateral cousin of Somov's.
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