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Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Born on July 12, 1828

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Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (24 July 1828 – 29 October 1889) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and the Narodniks.

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