Angel Ivanovich Bogdanovich (russian: А́нгел Ива́нович Богдано́вич, October 14 .s. 2 1860,

Haradok Haradok ( be, Гарадок, - russian: Городок, Gorodok, pl, Horodek) is a town in the Vitebsk Region of Belarus with the population of 34,700 people. Approximately 14,000 people reside in the town itself around 30,000 people reside wit ...

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(modern

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) - April 6 .s. March 24 1907,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, Russian Empire) was a Russian

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and social activist, originally a

narodnik The Narodniks (russian: народники, ) were a politically conscious movement of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1860s and 1870s, some of whom became involved in revolutionary agitation against tsarism. Their ideology, known as Narodism, ...

, later an active member of the Legal Marxists' political group.

Biography

Angel Bogdanovich was born in

, in the

Gorodoksky Uyezd Gorodoksky Uyezd (''Городокский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the southeastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Haradok (''Gorodok''). D ...

of the

(present-day

), an heir to a noble family of the

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

and

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

n origins. In 1880 he enrolled into the

Kiev University Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

. As a student of the medical faculty, he became a member of a Narodnik political circle, was expelled and got deported to the Nizny Novgorod

governorate A governorate is an administrative division of a state. It is headed by a governor. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either State (administrative division), states or province, provinces, the term ''govern ...

. There he became friends with

Vladimir Korolenko Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (russian: Влади́мир Галактио́нович Короле́нко, ua, Володи́мир Галактіо́нович Короле́нко; 27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a Ukrainian-born ...

and started contributing to several

Privolzhye Privolzhye (russian: Приволжье) is the name of several rural localities in Russia: *Privolzhye, Samara Oblast, a '' selo'' in Privolzhsky District of Samara Oblast * Privolzhye, Tver Oblast, a village in Zubtsovskoye Rural Settlement of Zu ...

journals. In 1887 he moved to

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

, there he edited the ''Volzhsky Vesnik'' newspaper. In 1893, now a

resident, he founded there Narodnoye Pravo (People's Right) group and issued its political program in a brochure called ''Nasushchny Vopros'' (A Vital Question, 1894). In the mid-1890s Bogdanovich drifted away from Narodniks and became a member of the Legal Marxists group. In the early 1890s Bogdanovich regularly contributed to ''

Russkoye Bogatstvo ''Russkoye Bogatstvo'' (russian: Русское богатство, Russian Wealth) was a monthly literary and political magazine published in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1876 to mid-1918. In the early 1890s it served as an organ of the liberal ...

'', in 1894-1906 was a co-editor of and a key figure in '' Mir Bozhiy''. In 1906 ''Mir Bozhiy'' was closed but re-emerged as ''Sovremenny Mir'' (Modern World) and for a year Bogdanovich was its editor. Angel Bogdanovich died in Saint Petersburg on April 6, 1907.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bogdanovich, Angel 1860 births 1907 deaths People from Haradok People from Gorodoksky Uyezd Lithuanian nobility Belarusian nobility 19th-century Polish nobility Narodniks Russian Marxists Russian literary critics Russian editors Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Medical faculty alumni