Mikhail Petrashevsky was born in St. Petersburg.
November 13 1821 years
Mikhail Petrashevsky was born in St. Petersburg. He was a thinker and one of the first Russian socialists. He organized a circle of freethinkers that met on Fridays.
Butashevich-Petrashevsky, as early as 1841, had been attempting to instill the pernicious principles of liberalism in the younger generation. Beginning in 1845, Petrashevsky would gather at his place on certain occasions teachers, writers, students, and people of all walks of life whom he knew, and would constantly provoke opinions that tended toward condemnation of the existing state administration in Russia (from a report by Ivan Liprandi).
My father was a doctor. In 1825, he saved the life of a general mortally wounded by the Decembrists. MiloradovichEarlier, Miloradovich attended the baptism of Misha Petrashevsky as a representative Alexander I — the emperor was considered the godfather of the future freethinker.
Misha studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum and graduated with a law degree. He served as a translator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He worked on the "Pocket Dictionary of Foreign Words." He edited the second edition. He wrote most of the articles promoting democratic ideas and the principles of utopian socialism. The dictionary explained the terms "natural law," "nation," and "innovation."
OPPOSITION It is a phenomenon necessary in every form of social life, for it is nothing other in itself than the discovery in the moral world of the general law of counteraction of forces, under the condition of the influence or interaction of which the development of all forms of existence in nature takes place.
From 1845, Petrashevsky hosted "Fridays" at his home—members of the intellectual elite would read "forbidden" books from the host's library and exchange ideas on how to restructure society. There was no consensus. Petrashevsky himself dreamed of democratizing the regime and freeing the peasants and their land.
In 1849, several dozen Petrashevsky members were arrested. It was decided to execute 21, including Dostoevsky. After a mock execution, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
Petrashevsky was exiled to Eastern Siberia. He lived in Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk. He published the literary and political newspaper "Amur." He died at age 45 from a cerebral hemorrhage.