Biography
The school of thinkers he belonged to became famous in Russia in the 1870's and 1880's as exponents of political and economic reforms. He was a contributor to the Otechestvennye Zapiski (“The Annals of the Fatherland”) from 1869 until it was suppressed in 1884. He became coeditor of Severny Vestnik (“The Northern Messenger”) in 1873, and from 1890 until his death in 1904 he was eoeditor of Russkoye Bogatstvo (“Russian Treasure”) with Vladimir Korolenko. His collected writings were published (Petrograd, 1913).
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