Nikolai Vasil'evich Shelgunov (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Шелгуно́в; November 22 [N.S. December 4] 1824 – 12 April [N.S. 24 April] 1891) was a Russian forestry professor, journalist, and literary critic, who became a notable figure of the Russian nihilist movement.[1][2]
Nikolai was born the son of a nobleman, on November 22 [O.S. December 4] 1824 in Saint Petersburg. He studied at the Imperial Forestry Institute in Saint Petersburg, graduating in 1841 and joining the staff of the forestry department of the Ministry of State Domains. By the late 1850s he was appointed professor at the Forestry Institute.
Shelgunov met M. L. Mikhailov in 1855. The two men travelled to London in 1858 and 1859, meeting Alexander Herzen and Nikolay Ogarev. Shelgunov returned to Russia and got involved with Nikolay Chernyshevsky contributing to the journals Russkoe slovo, Sovremennik, and Vek.[3] He participated in the revolutionary movement of the 1860s co-writing To the Younger Generation with Mikhailov. He also wrote the unpublished proclamation To Russian Soldiers From Their Well-wishers. He also introduced the Russian public to Frederick Engels' work The Condition of the Working Class in England through his article 'The Working Proletariat in England and France' (Sovremennik, 1861, nos. 9–11).
Shelgunov was also the editor of the journal Cause until his arrest in 1881.[4]
^Drozd, Andrew Michael (2001). Chernyshevskii's What is to be Done?: A Reevaluation. Northwestern University Press. pp. 17–19. ISBN 978-0-8101-1739-6.
^Boele, Otto (2009-11-24). Erotic Nihilism in Late Imperial Russia: The Case of Mikhail Artsybashev's Sanin. Univ of Wisconsin Press. pp. 40–42. ISBN 978-0-299-23273-3.
^Abir-Am, Pnina G.; Outram, Dorinda (1987). Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979. Rutgers University Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-8135-1256-3.
^Saul, Norman E.; McKinzie, Richard D. (1997). Russian-American Dialogue on Cultural Relations, 1776-1914. University of Missouri Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-8262-1097-5.
Nikolai Vasil'evich Shelgunov (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Шелгуно́в; November 22 [N.S. December 4] 1824 – 12 April [N.S. 24 April] 1891) was a Russian...
Marxism". In 1891, Martov attended demonstrations at the funeral of NikolaiShelgunov. Arrested in February 1892 for anti-tsarist activities, he was held...
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Blagosvetlov and the latter invited Dmitry Pisarev, Varfolomey Zaytsev and NikolaiShelgunov (among others) to the publication which started quickly to gain popularity...
wrote in a letter to Mikhailovsky on February 18, 1891. In April NikolaiShelgunov, Uspensky's friend, died. He tried to substitute him as the head of...
Polonsky. Close to this section were the Sketches of Russian Life that NikolaiShelgunov and later the Sketches of the Provincial Life by the economist Ivan...
Sovremennik allies. Polemic essays by Pisarev, Varfolomey Zaytsev, NikolaiShelgunov, Afanasy Shchapov represented the facade of Russkoye Slovo. The prose...
juices of nerves," according to the critic and fellow Social Democrat NikolaiShelgunov. It was Zaytsev who chose to take Saltykov-Shchedrin's remark concerning...
disliked by critics. "The Impotence of Creative Thought", the title of NikolaiShelgunov's article in Delo magazine, reflected the general mood. While in the...
several memoirs, including those on Ivan Turgenev, Alexey Pisemsky and NikolaiShelgunov. In 1898 her play Broken Shards (Битые черепки) was produced on stage...
Zaytsev put it. Articles by D. Minayev, Vasily Bervi-Flerovsky and N. Shelgunov in Delo magazine characterized the novel as "lacking realism", showing...
P. G. Zhibarov, F. P. Saburov, K. P. Mikhailov, N. A. Klerikov, V. A. Shelgunov, M. D. Shumilov (1912–1914) Publications suspended by order of the Bureau...
lived here. A well-known Russian publicist of the nineteenth century, N. Shelgunov, wrote about Irkutsk: “Irkutsk is the only Siberian city, which has the...
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