Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky

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Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky


Born
in Sveaborg, Grand Duchy of Finland
June 11, 1811

Died
June 07, 1848

Genre

Influences


(Russian: Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. Belinsky played one of the key roles in the career of poet and publisher Nikolay Nekrasov and his popular magazine Sovremennik. He was the most influential of the Westernizers, especially among the younger generation. He worked primarily as a literary critic, because that area was less heavily censored than political pamphlets. He agreed with Slavophiles that society had precedence over individualism, but he insisted the society had to allow the expression of individual ideas and rights. He strongly opposed Slavophiles on the role of Orthodoxy, which he considered a retrograde force. He emphasized reason and knowledge, and attacked autocracy ...more

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Оливер Твист. Роман г-на Ди...

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Русские народные сказки. Ча...

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Басни Ивана Крылова

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Selected Philosophical Works

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Избранные статьи

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Похождения Чичикова, или ме...

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Физиология Петербурга

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«Горе от ума»

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Петербург и Москва

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“What is it to me that the Universal exists when the individual personality [lichnost’] is suffering.”
Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky

“Жить — значит чувствовать и мыслить, страдать и блаженствовать, всякая другая жизнь — смерть.”
Белинский В.Г.

“Много людей живет, не живя, но только собираясь жить.”
Белинский В.Г.

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