Nikolai Evgrafovich Fedoseev (russian: Николай Евгрáфович Федосéев) (May 9 1871, O.S_27_April.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/> O.S_27_April">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S_27_AprilNolinsk.html" ;"title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S 27 April">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S 27 AprilNolinsk">Old Style and New Style dates">O.S 27 April">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S 27 AprilNolinsk – July 4 [O.S 22 June] 1898, Verkhoyansk) was a pioneer of

Marxism Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialectical ...

in the Russian Empire . Vladimir Lenin wrote of Fedoseev: “Fedoseev played a very important role in the Volga area and in certain parts of

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during that period; and the turn towards

at that time was, undoubtedly, very largely due to the influence of this exceptionally talented and exceptionally devoted revolutionary”. Fedoseev played the important role of acting as a teacher to

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

and, according to historian Ralph Fox, "in some way perhaps the teacher to

Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1 ...

also". A committed earbeing Marxist being accused of embezzling party funds led to shame and a switch to an austere lifestyle that eventually led to his suicide.

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1871 births 1898 deaths Russian Marxists 1890s suicides {{Russia-bio-stub Russian revolutionaries