Nikolay Nekrasov
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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
Dmitry Grigorovich (writer)
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Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich was a Russian writer, best known for his first two novels, The Village and Anton Goremyka. He was lauded as the first author to have realistically portrayed the life of
Portrait by Sergey Lvovich Levitsky, 1856
Self-portrait of the young Grigorovich.
Contributors to Sovremennik: Grigorovich (top center) next to Leo Tolstoy, Bottom row: (from left) Goncharov, Turgenev, Druzhinin, and Ostrovsky. Photograph by Sergey Levitsky, 1856.
Dmitry Grigorovich in the late 1850s; photograph by Andrey Denyer