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Nikolai Vladimirovich Stankevich
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Nikolai Vladimirovich Stankevich was a Russian writer, poet, publicist, and thinker. He came from a prosperous noble family. After graduating from the Ostrogozhsk district school in 1825, Stankevich studied for five years at a private boarding school in Voronezh. Already at sixteen he published his first patriotic poems. In 1830 he enrolled in the philology department of Moscow University, where he became interested in Russian history and philosophy, in particular the teachings of Schelling, thanks to his teacher, Professor Pavlov. At the university he formed his views and began to gather like-minded people around him.
In 1831 a group formed around Stankevich that discussed philosophical and ethical questions. After graduating from the university in 1834, he worked for a time in the Voronezh province, where he introduced a number of innovations. However, his desire for fuller realization of his abilities led him back to Moscow in 1835. In Moscow he resumed the activities of his circle, attracting both former and new participants, among whom were M. Bakunin and I. S. Turgenev. Stankevich's life was overshadowed by a severe illness—tuberculosis. Treatment in the Caucasus and at Karlovy Vary did not bring the desired result. Hoping to improve his health, at the beginning of 1840 Stankevich set out for Italy. However, the disease progressed, and he died in his sleep on June 25, 1840, in Novi Ligure.
Date of birth
09 October 1813
Date of death
07 July 1840
Occupation
Writer