Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828-1889), the son of a priest of Saratov, studied at the seminary of his town and then at the University of Saint Petersburg. From 1853 to 1862 he was in Petersburg one of the leading figures of the journal Sovremennik, in which his criticism and essays appeared, and became the dominant intellectual figure of the revolutionary democratic movement of the 1860s. Arrested in July 1862 and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress, he was sentenced to penal servitude and exile, and spent more than twenty years in prison, in penal servitude and in Siberia. He died in Saratov.

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• NovelWhat Is to Be Done?Что делать?Nikolay Chernyshevsky · 1863LiteraturePublic domain