Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (born 1840)

Dmitry Pisarev

Russian writer and nihilist philosopher (1840–1868)

Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who was a central figure of Russian nihilism. He is noted as a forerunner of Nietzschean philosophy, and for the impact his advocacy of liberation movements and natural science had on Russian history.