Nikolay Chernyshevsky
(1828-1889)
Russian writer and nihilist philosopher
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Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (24 July [O.S. 12 July] 1828 – 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1889) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and the Narodniks. He was the dominant intellectual figure of the 1860s revolutionary democratic movement in Russia, despite spending much of his later life in exile to Siberia, and was later highly praised by Karl Marx, Georgi Plekhanov, and Vladimir Lenin.
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12 July 1828 Saratov, Russia
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| Died |
17 October 1889 (aged 61) Saratov, Russian Empire
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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