Nikolai Vladimirovich Stankevich () ( – ) was a Russian public figure, philosopher, and poet.

Biography

Nikolay Stankevich was born in Uderevka,

Voronezh Governorate Voronezh Governorate (russian: Воронежская губерния, ''Voronezhskaya guberniya''; uk, Воронізька губернія) was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and th ...

, and in 1834 graduated from the

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

, where he was influenced by Professor Mikhail Kachenovsky and followers of the so-called "skeptical school" in

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. By late 1831, Stankevich had organized a literary and philosophical society called the ''Circle of Stankevich''. He had been under police surveillance since 1833 due to his connections with a group of oppositionary university students led by Ya.I. Kostenetsky. In 1837, Nikolay Stankevich had to travel abroad due to his

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. Stankevich's literary and esthetical views, most of which mirrored the ideas of a Russian historian

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, presupposed the humanistic enlightenment as the main task of the Russian

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. Stankevich is known to have considerably influenced some of the Russian and

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intelligentsia in particular, including

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Timofey Granovsky Timofey Nikolayevich Granovsky (russian: link=no, Тимофей Николаевич Грановский; 9 March 1813 – 4 October 1855) was a founder of mediaeval studies in the Russian Empire. Granovsky was born in Oryol, Russia. He studied ...

Mikhail Bakunin Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (; 1814–1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist, socialist and founder of collectivist anarchism. He is considered among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major founder of the revolutionary ...

, and

Alexander Herzen Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, translit=Alexándr Ivánovich Gértsen; ) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agra ...

. Among Stankevich's literary works (mostly poetic and not numerous), there are a few verses dedicated to Moscow and a historical tragedy called ''Vasili Shuisky''. He died of

, aged 26, in

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, Italy.

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

* Serge N. Evanow, ''N.V. Stankevich and His Circle: The Idealistic Movement of the 1830s'',

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, 1953, 226 pages. * Edward J. Brown, ''Stankevich and His Moscow Circle, 1830-1840'',

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, 1966, 149 pages. * John W. Randolph, ''The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism'',

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, 2007, Chapter VI. * Peter K. Christoff, ''K.S. Aksakov, A Study in Ideas, Vol. III: An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism'',

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, 2004, Chapter II. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stankevich, Nikolai 1813 births 1840 deaths People from Belgorod Oblast People from Voronezh Governorate Russian philosophers Russian male poets Moscow State University alumni Liberals from the Russian Empire 19th-century poets 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire Tuberculosis deaths in Italy