Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russia
Nekrasov in 1870
Portrait of Nikolai Nekrasov by Nikolai Ge, 1872.
Every summer Nekrasov would go hunting to his brother's estate of Karabikha near Yaroslavl (now a memorial museum).
Nekrasov and Panayev visiting sick Belinsky. By A.Naumov