Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (died 1877)

Nikolay Nekrasov

Russian poet, critic, publisher (1821–1878)

Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of the mid-nineteenth century, particularly as represented by…