Petraschewzen
Members of the Petraschewski circle take part in a ritualized mock execution .
St. Petersburg, Semyonov Square, 1849
St. Petersburg, Semyonov Square, 1849
The Petraschewzen were the followers of the Petraschewski circle in Tsarist Russia , which arose in Saint Petersburg in the mid-1840s . The head of the circle was Michail Wassiljewitsch Butaschewitsch-Petraschewski , a supporter of the French early socialists around Charles Fourier . Progressive Russian intellectuals like the poet Fyodor Dostoyevsky belonged to the circle . The political views of the Petraschewzen were not similar, but the majority opposed tsarist despotism and serfdom.
literature
- Article Petraschewzen in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- Nikolai F. Beltschikow: Dostoyevsky in the Petraschewzen trial. Translated by Eva-Maria Pietsch. Leipzig. Philipp-Reclam-Verlag, 1977 (= Reclams Universal Library Volume 674)
Web links
Wikisource: Petraschewzen - Sources and full texts (Russian)
