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Vissarion Belinsky
Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. Belinsky played one of the key roles in the career of poet and publisher Nikolay Nekrasov and his popular magazine Sovremennik. He was the most influential of the Westernizers, especially among the younger generation. He worked primarily as a literary critic, because that area was less heavily censored than pol…
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culture · Russian literary critic (1811–1848) · philosopher · writer · literary critic · journalist · literary theorist · opinion journalist · critic · also Vissarion Belinsky, Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky, Vissárion Grigoryevich Belinsky, Belinsky
Born 30 May 1811 · Died 26 May 1848 · Q192885
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A sentence later commuted to 4 years incarceration in the prison camps of Siberia
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Died 1848-05-26.
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Shortly before his death, Belinsky granted full rights to Nikolay Nekrasov and his magazine, The Contemporary (Sovremennik), to publish various articles and other material originally planned for an almanac, to be called
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Born 1811-05-30.
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