Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov was a Russian literary critic, poet, and publicist. He was born on January 24 (February 5), 1836 in Nizhny Novgorod into the family of a priest. At the age of fourteen he translated several poems by Horace. In 1853 he graduated from seminary, but due to financial difficulties he was unable to enter university and went to St. Petersburg, initially intending to study at the theological academy. Ultimately, he became a student at the Main Pedagogical Institute.
Dobrolyubov's literary activity began while he was studying. As a third-year student, he published in the journal Sovremennik an article about Sobesednik Rossiyskogo Slova under the pseudonym Laibov (autumn 1856). This event marked the beginning of his close collaboration with Chernyshevsky.
In 1858, with the support of N. A. Nekrasov, Dobrolyubov founded the satirical magazine Svistok, where he published his poems and feuilletons under various pseudonyms: Konrad Lilienshvager and Yakov Kham. In 1860 Dobrolyubov went abroad for treatment. He spent more than a year in Germany, southern France, and Italy, but his condition did not improve. In August 1861 Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov returned to St. Petersburg, where he soon died and was buried at the Volkovo Cemetery.
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