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Dmitry Pisarev was a Russian essayist, journalist, writer, and literary critic. Born in Znamenskoe in 1840, he was a citizen of the Russian Empire. He studied at Saint Petersburg State University under Izmail Sreznevsky and Nikolai Ustryalov. His professional career began in 1859, during which he produced twelve works. He wrote in Russian, his native language.
Pisarev died in Jūrmala in 1868 from accidental drowning. He is buried at the Writer's Walkways in Volkovo Cemetery. His life and work have been documented in the Nordisk familjebok, the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1840-10-14 ) October 14, 1840, Znamenskoye , Oryol Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- July 16, 1868 (1868-07-16) (aged 27), Dubulti , Russian Empire
- Cause of death
- Drowning (possibly as suicide )
- Resting place
- Literatorskie mostki, Volkovo Cemetery , Saint Petersburg
- Alma mater
- Saint Petersburg Imperial University
- Occupations
- Literary critic, social critic, essayist, journalist
- Years active
- 1858–1868
- Known for
- Promoting natural science, Bazarovism , proto- Nietzscheanism
- Era
- 19th-century philosophy
- Region
- Russian philosophy
- School
- Russian nihilism
- Notable ideas
- New types Rational egoism Thinking proletariat
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dmitry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Znamenskoe
- Place of death
- Jūrmala
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Student of
- Nikolai Ustryalov
- Image
- Dimitri Pisarev.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dmitry Pisarev
- date of birth
- 1840-10-02
- date of death
- 1868-07-04
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- manner of death
- accidental death
- name in native language
- Дмитрий Иванович Писарев
- place of burial
- Volkovo Cemetery Writer's Walkways
- cause of death
- drowning
- start of work period
- 1859-00-00
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Works in European collections
12 objects attributed to Dmitry Pisarev, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 6
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 2
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 4
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 5
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 2
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 1
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 3
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 3
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 1
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 4
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 5
Sočinenija D. J. Pisareva : polnoe sobranie v šesti tomach, 6
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Encyclopedic overview
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev (14 October [O.S. 2 October] 1840 – 16 July [O.S. 4 July] 1868) was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who was a central figure of Russian nihilism. He is noted as a forerunner of Nietzschean philosophy, and for the impact his advocacy of liberation movements and natural science had on Russian history.
A critique of his philosophy became the subject of Fyodor Dostoevsky's celebrated novel Crime and Punishment. Indeed, Pisarev's philosophy embraces the nihilist aims of negation and value-destruction; in freeing oneself from all human and moral authority, the nihilist becomes ennobled above the common masses and free to act according to sheer personal preference and usefulness. These new types, as Pisarev termed them, were to be pioneers of what he saw as the most necessary step for human development, namely the reset and destruction of the existing mode of thought. Among his most famous locutions is: "What can be smashed must be smashed. Whatever withstands the blow is fit to survive; what flies into pieces is rubbish. In any case, strike out right and left, no harm can come of it."
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