Contemporaries
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Literature · social thought
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- 1853–1889
A writer, literary critic and journalist associated with Sovremennik. His discussions of art, political economy and peasant emancipation made him an intellectual authority for radical young readers. After arrest, he wrote What Is to Be Done? in the Peter and Paul Fortress, profoundly influencing social thought. Sentenced to penal servitude and settlement in Siberia, he continued writing in exile before receiving permission to return to European Russia.
- Lifetime
- 1828–1889
- Key work
- What Is to Be Done? — published in Sovremennik in 1863.
- Period shown
- From the beginning of his literary career in St Petersburg (1853); includes imprisonment and exile.