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Vissarion Belinsky

Influential nineteenth-century Russian literary critic and philosopher

Did you know?He was a key figure in the Westernizer movement, advocating for Russia to adopt European social and political reforms.

Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (Russian: Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский; 11 June 1811 – 7 June 1848) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. Belinsky played one of the key roles in the career of poet and publisher Nikolay Nekrasov and his popular magazine Sovremennik.

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