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Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Born	(1828-07-12)July 12, 1828 Saratov, Russia
Died	October 17, 1889(1889-10-17) (aged 61) Saratov, Russia

Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (Template:Lang-ru) (July 12, 1828 – October 17, 1889) was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist (seen by some as a utopian socialist). He was the leader of the revolutionary democratic movement of the 1860s, and an influence on Vladimir Lenin, Emma Goldman, and Serbian political writer and socialist Svetozar Marković.

Biography

The son of a priest, Chernyshevsky was born in Saratov in 1828, and stayed there till 1846. He graduated at the local seminary where he learnt English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek and Old Slavonic. It was there he gained a love of literature. At St Petersburg university he often struggled to warm his room. He kept a diary of trivia like the number of tears he shed over a dead friend. It was here that he became an atheist.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Works about Chernyshevsky

• Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift has the protagonist, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, study Chernyshevsky and write the critical biography The Life of Chernychevski which represents Chapter Four of the novel. The publication of this work causes a literary scandal.
• Paperno, Irina, Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
• Pereira, N.G.O., The Thought and Teachings of N.G. Černyševskij. The Hague: Mouton, 1975.

Works

• Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality
• Essays on the Gogol Period in Russian Literature
• Critique of Philosophical Prejudices Against Communal Ownership
• The Anthropological Principle in Philosophy
• What Is to Be Done? (1863)
• Prologue
• The Nature of Human Knowledge

References

1. Ana Siljak, Angel of Vengeance, page 57
2. The Gift chapter 5

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• 1828 births
• 1889 deaths
• People from Saratov
• Russian journalists
• Russian editors
• Russian literary critics
• Russian novelists
• Russian philosophers
• Russian revolutionaries
• Russian socialists
• Russian atheists
• Saint Petersburg State University alumni
• Former Eastern Orthodox Christians