Nikolai Serno-Solovyevich Explained

Nikolai Serno-Solovyevich
Birthname:Николай Александрович Серно-Соловьевич
Birth Date:13 December 1834
Birth Place:Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Death Place:Irkutsk, Russian Empire
Occupation:publicist, revolutionary

Nikolai Alexandrovich Serno-Solovyevich (Russian: Николáй Алекса́ндрович Се́рно-Соловье́вич) (13 December 1834 in Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia – 14 February 1866 in Irkutsk) was a Russian publicist and revolutionary who was one of the founders of the far-left organisation Zemlya i Volya.

A radical who rejected both the 1861 reforms and capitalism, seeing revolution as the only way forward for Russia, he was a regular correspondent to different publications of the Free Russian Press. A friend of Alexander Hertzen and Nikolai Ogaryov, as well as Nikolai Chernyshevsky, he became a pivotal link between the Saint Petersburg and the London centres of the Russian revolutionary movement. Arrested on 7 July 1862 alongside Chernyshevsky and taken to the Petropavlovskaya Fortress where he remained until 1865, Serno was deported to Siberia and died in 1866 in Irkutsk.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/bse/131815/Серно Серно-Соловьевич Николай Александрович
  2. Eydelman, Natan. Твой ХІХ век. Серно // Your 19th Century. Serno.