Nikolai Vladimirovich Stankevich () ( – ) was a Russian public figure, philosopher, and poet.

Biography

Nikolay Stankevich was born in Uderevka,

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, and in 1834 graduated from the

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, where he was influenced by Professor Mikhail Kachenovsky and followers of the so-called "skeptical school" in

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. His father Vladimir Ivanovich Stankevich (1786-1851) was the leader of the nobility of Ostrogozhsky district in 1837-1841. Her mother was the daughter of the Ostrogozhsky doctor Ekaterina Iosifovna Kramer (1794-1841). By late 1831, Stankevich had organized a literary and philosophical society called the ''Circle of Stankevich''. He had been under police surveillance since 1833 due to his connections with a group of oppositionary university students led by Ya.I. Kostenetsky. In 1837, Nikolay Stankevich had to travel abroad due to his

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. Stankevich's literary and esthetical views, most of which mirrored the ideas of a Russian historian

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, presupposed the humanistic

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as the main task of the Russian

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. Stankevich is known to have considerably influenced some of the Russian and

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intelligentsia in particular, including

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, and

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. Among Stankevich's literary works (mostly poetic and not numerous), there are a few verses dedicated to Moscow and a historical tragedy called ''Vasili Shuisky''. He died of

, aged 26, in

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, Italy.

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

* Serge N. Evanow, ''N.V. Stankevich and His Circle: The Idealistic Movement of the 1830s'',

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, 1953, 226 pages. * Edward J. Brown, ''Stankevich and His Moscow Circle, 1830-1840'',

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, 1966, 149 pages. * John W. Randolph, ''The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism'',

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, 2007, Chapter VI. * Peter K. Christoff, ''K.S. Aksakov, A Study in Ideas, Vol. III: An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism'',

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