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Nikolay Nekrasov

Died in 1878

Nikolay Nekrasov was born in 1821 in Nemyriv, in Podolia. His father destined him for the army; having come to Saint Petersburg in 1838, he chose to prepare for the university and lost all support. He lived for years in want, writing primers, tales in verse and vaudevilles under the name Perepelsky. In 1846-1847, with Ivan Panayev, he took over the journal Sovremennik, founded by Pushkin, then edited the Otechestvennye zapiski. His verse, devoted above all to the peasants, opened Russian poetry to the language of the people. He died in Saint Petersburg on 8 January 1878, that is 27 December 1877 by the Julian calendar.

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