Angel Ivanovich Bogdanovich (, October 14 .s. 2 1860,

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(modern

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) - April 6 .s. March 24 1907,

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, Russian Empire) was a Russian

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and social activist, originally a

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, later an active member of the Legal Marxists' political group.

Biography

Angel Bogdanovich was born in

, in the Gorodoksky Uyezd of the

of the

(present-day

), an heir to a noble family of the

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and

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n origins. His younger brother was a famous Polish geologist, an expert in mining geology and physical geography Karol Bohdanowicz. In 1880 he enrolled into the

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. As a student of the medical faculty, he became a member of a Narodnik political circle, was expelled and got deported to the Nizny Novgorod

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. There he became friends with

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and started contributing to several

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journals. In 1887 he moved to

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, there he edited the ''Volzhsky Vesnik'' newspaper. In 1893, now a

resident, he founded there Narodnoye Pravo (People's Right) group and issued its political program in a brochure called ''Nasushchny Vopros'' (A Vital Question, 1894). In the mid-1890s Bogdanovich drifted away from Narodniks and became a member of the Legal Marxists group. In the early 1890s Bogdanovich regularly contributed to '' Russkoye Bogatstvo'', in 1894-1906 was a co-editor of and a key figure in '' Mir Bozhiy''. In 1906 ''Mir Bozhiy'' was closed but re-emerged as ''Sovremenny Mir'' (Modern World) and for a year Bogdanovich was its editor. Angel Bogdanovich died in Saint Petersburg on April 6, 1907.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bogdanovich, Angel 1860 births 1907 deaths People from Haradok People from Gorodoksky Uyezd 19th-century nobility from the Russian Empire Narodniks Marxists from the Russian Empire Literary critics from the Russian Empire Editors from the Russian Empire Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Medical faculty alumni