The Maturing of the Russian Intelligentsia: 1830s and 1840s

 

I. St. Petersburg: The Literary Milieu

A. The Influence of European Romanticism

B. Nikolai Karamzin (1766-1826)

C. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

D. Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)

 

II. Moscow: The Crystallization of Political Tendencies

A. Peter Chaadaev (1793-1856)

B. The “Moscow Circles”

          1. The Slavophiles: Andrei Khomiakov and Ivan Kireevsky

          2. The Westernizers: Timofei Granovsky and Vissarion Belinsky

          3. Early Russian Socialists: Alexander Herzen and Nikolai Ogarev

 

III. Conclusion