Favorites. Young Russia. Gershenzon M.

Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon (1869-1925) - historian of Russian literature and social thought of the XIX century, philosopher, publicist, translator, editor and publisher and, above all, a thin and bright writer.

The books on the study of the spiritual atmosphere and the development of social thought in Russia (mainly the 30-40s of the XIX century) by the method of reconstructing individual biographies of a number of figures who imposed the seal of their personality on the life of the Russian Society of the Premabrsky the period, as well as those people who could not withstand the “severity of the era” and sharply changed the paths intended for them. At the heart of Hershenzon's research, rich archival (especially epistolary) material. Three books are published in Tom: “History of Young Russia”, “Decembrist Krivtsov and his brothers” and “The life of V. S. Pecherin”. The Decembrists M. F. Orlov and S. I. Krivtsov, the spiritual leaders of Russian youth N.V. Stankevich, T. N. Granovsky, N. P. Ogarev and others are held before the reader, and also did not endure in his dreams about " The best world ”of the discord with Russian reality by the young professor of Moscow University V. S. Pecherin, an emigrant who accepted the monastic trigger and the rank of Catholic priest and ended his life path in Ireland, highly appreciating his full -hardened mercy.