Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1828)

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Russian writer and philosopher (1828–1889)

Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and the Narodniks. He was the dominant intellectual figure…