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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 Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolay Chernyshevsky. He is credited with introducing ternary meters and the technique of dramati…
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Born 28 November 1821 · Died 8 January 1878 · Q208003
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"Despite his enormous popularity among the radicals and of a tribute given to him as a poet by enemies like Grigoryiev and Dostoyevsky, Nekrasov can hardly be said to have had his due during his lifetime
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“one is obliged to read him... in spite of occasional faults of the form”
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Died 1878-01-08.
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Nekrasov was diagnosed with intestinal cancer
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A group of Narodniks in Geneva printed the misleadingly titled, unauthorized Collection of New Poems and Songs by Nekrasov, featuring all the protest poems banned in Russia, a clear sign of what an inspiration now the po
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Nekrasov met and fell in love with 19-year-old Fyokla Anisimovna Viktorova, a country girl for whom he invented another name, Zinaida Nikolayevna (the original one was deemed too 'simple')
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Otechestvennye Zapiski started publishing what turned out to be Nekrasov's most famous poem, Who Is Happy in Russia
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Nekrasov started his Poems for Russian Children cycle, which concluded in 1873
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The law was passed abolishing preliminary censorship but toughening punitive sanctions
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While still with Panayeva, Nekrasov met the French actress Celine Lefresne, who was at the time performing at the Mikhaylovsky Theatre with her troupe
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The second edition of The Poems came out (now in 2 volumes)
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Nekrasov started campaigning for the release of his arrested colleague, Mikhail Mikhaylov, but failed: the latter was deported to Siberia
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The so-called 'Nekrasov school' in Russian poetry started to take shape, uniting realist poets like Dmitry Minayev, Nikolai Dobrolyubov, Ivan Nikitin and Vasily Kurochkin, among others
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And including Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky
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Dobrolyubov's negative review outraged Turgenev and led to his departure from Sovremennik
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Nekrasov and Dobrolyubov founded Svistok (Whistle), a satirical supplement to Sovremennik
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Nekrasov started working upon his first poetry collection and on 15 October 1856, The Poems by N
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Nekrasov invited Nikolai Chernyshevsky to join Sovremennik, in 1858 Nikolai Dobrolyubov became one of its major contributors
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Panayeva gave birth to a son, but the boy soon died
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Belinsky granted Nekrasov rights to publish various articles and other material originally planned for an almanac, to be called the "Leviathan"
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Nekrasov met Vissarion Belinsky and entered his circle of friends which included Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Panayev and Pavel Annenkov
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When she was already a promising writer and a popular hostess of a literary salon
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(a year after his mother's death) Nekrasov returned to Greshnevo and made peace with his father, who was now quite proud of his son's achievements
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Studied at Imperial St. Petersburg University (1839–1841).
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Took exams at the Saint Petersburg University's Eastern languages faculty, failed and joined the philosophy faculty as a part-time student where he studied, irregularly, until July 1841
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Born 1821-11-28.
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