Alexander Nikolayevich Engelhardt (; – )
was a Russian military officer,

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and publicist of

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orientation.

Biography

A member of the noble

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, he became widely known for his social and agronomic activities and his experiment in organising rational farming on his own estate in Batishchevo, in

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. In 1859 in Saint Petersburg, Engelhardt married Anna Nikolaevna Makarova and the couple had three children, who would later become writers. In 1870, he and his wife were both arrested for participation in the socialist students' circle of the (), where he worked. After a month and a half, his wife was released, as there was insufficient evidence of her involvement, but Engelhardt spent eighteen months in prison and was then exiled for life from Saint Petersburg and banished to his estate near in the

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. His wife periodically visited him there, but she maintained a separate household in Saint Petersburg with the children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Engelhardt, Alexander 1832 births 1893 deaths People from Smolensk Oblast People from Belsky Uyezd (Smolensk Governorate) Alexander Nikolayevich Narodniks Public relations people 19th-century writers from the Russian Empire 19th-century scientists from the Russian Empire