Nikolai Nikolaevich Strakhov – a Russian philosopher, publicist, literary critic, and corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He was born in Belgorod, in the family of a priest. After his father's death he was raised by his maternal uncle. In 1845 Strakhov graduated from the Kostroma Theological Seminary, then studied at the Imperial Saint Petersburg University, and later at the physics and mathematics department of the Main Pedagogical Institute, which he completed in 1851.
After graduating from the institute, Strakhov worked as a senior teacher of mathematics and physics at a gymnasium in Odessa, and later at other gymnasiums. In 1867 he defended his master's thesis 'On the bones of the mammalian wrist' at the Imperial Saint Petersburg University.
In the 1860s Strakhov became more involved in journalism and literary activity. He worked as an editor at the journal 'Otechestvennye Zapiski' and headed the journal 'Zarya'. From 1873 to 1885 he served at the Public Library. Nikolai Nikolaevich Strakhov died on January 24, 1896, and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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