Mikhaylovsky N. K. (1842-1904), publicist, sociologist

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MIKHAYLOVSKY Nikolay Konstantinovich (1842-1904, St. Petersburg), publicist, sociologist, critic, public figure. From 1856 lived in St. Petersburg, studied in the Corps of Mining Engineers Institute; in 1863 was expelled for participation in student unrest. From 1868 joined the Otechestvennye Zapiski journal as a staff writer, subsequently became a member of the editorial board and the journal's leading publicist, after its suppression (1884) contributed to the Severny Vestnik, Russkaya Mysl, Russkoe Bogatstvo, (from 1892 until his death was an editorial board member). His article What is Progress, which played an important role in the development of the Narodism (revolutionary populism) ideology, gave him publicity (1869). Mikhaylovsky was one of the first to study the subject of mass psychology. According to his contemporaries Mikhaylovsky was the mastermind of the radically-minded youth of the 1870s-90s. In the 1890s - early 1900s Mikhaylovsky was involved in a polemic with the Russian disciples of Karl Marx. He wrote a number of articles on Leo Tolstoy, Fedor Dostoevsky's, V. M. Garshin's, Nikolay Leskov's, G. I. Uspensky's works, and some others, which had a strong social resonance. In the 1890s he wrote a series of articles on Anton Chekhov's and Maxim Gorky's works. Mikhaylovsky had connections to illegal Narodism organisations, several times was banished from St. Petersburg. In the 1870s resided at 134 and 51 Ekaterininsky Canal Embankment (presently Griboedova Canal); in 1879 in Ozerny Lane in Peski; in the 1890s at 10 Kabinetskaya (presently Pravdy) Street; later at 5 Spasskaya (presently Ryleeva) Street. Mikhaylovsky's flats used to be the places of traditional meetings of writers and publicist-nationalists. Buried at Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Виленская Э. С. Н. К. Михайловский и его идейная роль в народническом движении 70-х - начале 80-х годов XIX века. М., 1979; Кавторин В. В. Петербургские интеллигенты. СПб., 2001. С. 314-383.

A. B. Muratov. Chekhov Anton Pavlovich
Dostoevsky Fedor Mikhailovich
Garshin Vsevolod Mikhailovich
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
Leskov Nikolay Semenovich
Marx Karl
Mikhaylovsky Nikolay Konstantinovich
Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich, Count
Uspensky Gleb Ivanovich
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 134
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 51
Ozernaya Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Pravdy St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Ryleeva St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Виленская Э. С. Н. К. Михайловский и его идейная роль в народническом движении 70-х - начале 80-х годов XIX века. М., 1979
Бялый Г. А. [Н.К. Михайловский] // История русской критики: В 2 т. М.; Л., 1958
Кавторин В. В. Петербургские интеллигенты. СПб., 2001 Otechestvennye Zapiski (Notes of the Fatherland), journal
Severny Vestnik (Northern Herald), journal, 1885-1898
Russkoe Bogatstvo (The Russian Wealth), journal, 1876-1918
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis