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Nikolay Konstantinovich Mikhaylovsky

Russian literary critic
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Also known as: Nikolai Konstantinovich Mikhailovskii, Nikolay Konstantinovich Mikhailovsky
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Mikhaylovsky also spelled:
Mikhailovskii
Born:
Nov. 27 [Nov. 15, Old Style], 1842, Meshchovsk, Russia
Died:
Feb. 10 [Jan. 28], 1904, St. Petersburg (aged 61)
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Nikolay Konstantinovich Mikhaylovsky (born Nov. 27 [Nov. 15, Old Style], 1842, Meshchovsk, Russia—died Feb. 10 [Jan. 28], 1904, St. Petersburg) was a Russian literary critic and publicist whose views provided much of the theoretical basis for the Populist (Narodnik) movement. Born into a noble family and trained as a mining engineer, Mikhaylovsky began writing for the press in 1860. From 1868 to 1884 he was associated with the widely read St. Petersburg literary journal Otechestvennye Zapiski (“Native Notes”). Building upon the critical traditions established by N.G. Chernyshevsky and N.A. Dobrolyubov, he viewed the writer as the moral judge of society ...(100 of 276 words)

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