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Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (24 July [O.S. 12 July] 1828 – 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1889) 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 Narodniks.
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky. Born: July 12 [July 24, New Style], 1828, Saratov, Russia. Died: Oct. 17 [Oct. 29], 1889, Saratov (aged 61) Notable Works: “What Is to Be Done?”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (Russian: Никола́й Гаври́лович Черныше́вский) (July 12, 1828 - October 17, 1889) was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, literary critic, and socialist (seen by some as a utopian socialist).
'What to do?') is an 1863 novel written by the Russian philosopher, journalist, and literary critic Nikolay Chernyshevsky, written in response to Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev. The chief character is Vera Pavlovna, a woman who escapes the control of her family and an arranged marriage to seek economic independence .
- Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, Michael R. Katz
- 1863
Nikolay Chernyshevsky, utopian socialist, a major intellectual force behind nihilism. Often considered the first of the šestidesjatniki, Nikolay Chernyshevsky became an admirer of Feuerbach, Herzen, and Belinsky towards the end of the 1840s.
…to Nikolay Chernyshevsky’s ideological novel What Is to Be Done? (1863), which offered a planned utopia based on “natural” laws of self-interest, Notes from the Underground attacks the scientism and rationalism at the heart of Chernyshevsky’s novel.
Fifty years ago in Saratov, one of the most remarkable public figures of the last century, the master of the thoughts of the best people of his time, a consistent revolutionary democrat, a remarkably deep critic of capitalism and the greatest representative of utopian socialism in Russia, as Lenin called him, died.
