BELINSKY, VISSARION GRIGORYEVICH


Meaning of BELINSKY, VISSARION GRIGORYEVICH in English

born May 30, 1811, Sveaborg, Fin., Russian Empire

died May 26, 1848, St. Petersburg, Russia

Russian literary critic.

Expelled from the University of Moscow in 1832, he worked as a journalist, making his reputation with critical articles that expounded nationalist doctrine. His argument that literature should express political and social ideas had a major impact on Soviet literary criticism, and he was often called the father of the Russian radical intelligentsia.

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