Andrey Kozhukhov. Stepnyak-Kravchinsky C.M.

The library of the project “History of the Russian State” is the best monuments of world literature recommended by Boris Akunin, which reflects the biography of our country from its very origins.

S.M. Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (1851–1895) was one of the most ambiguous people in the Russian revolutionary movement, in Russian literature, in the social movement of the 19th century. He was the first to translate Roman R. Giovanioli into Russian back in 1881, served as the prototype of the protagonist of the famous novel by E. Wojnich, “Disde”, became the hero of E. Zoly’s novel “Germinal”, was a member of the murder in 1878 of General N. in 1878 IN. Mezentsev - chief of a separate corps of gendarmes.

the action of the novel “Andrei Kozhukhov” - the most significant work of the writer, who recreated a true picture of the revolutionary struggle on the basis of his own experience, belongs to the turning point of the historical moment when the Narodniks, not finding a response of their own Propaganda in the peasantry, in search of new ways of revolutionary activity, embarked on the path of political terror.