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Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev

Russian government official
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Oct. 23 [Oct. 12, Old Style], 1789, Simbirsk [now Ulyanovsk], Russia
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Nov. 10 [Oct. 29], 1871, Paris (aged 82)
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Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev (born Oct. 23 [Oct. 12, Old Style], 1789, Simbirsk [now Ulyanovsk], Russia—died Nov. 10 [Oct. 29], 1871, Paris) was a Russian government official and economist who was a cofounder of the revolutionary Northern Society, which staged the Decembrist uprising of 1825 in St. Petersburg. Born into the middle class, Turgenev was one of a number of Russian youths infected by the liberal spirit that emerged in Europe after the French Revolution. He belonged to the Union of Welfare, a reformist society, many of whose members eventually came to advocate the overthrow of the autocracy. In 1821 the ...(100 of 184 words)

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