1. In 1849, as a member of Petrashevsky Circle, Aleksey Pleshcheyev was arrested, sent to Saint Petersburg and spent 8 months in Peter and Paul Fortress.
13 Facts About Aleksey Pleshcheyev
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Many of Aleksey Pleshcheyev's poems have been set to music to become popular Russian romances.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev received a good home education and at the age of 13 joined the military school in Saint Petersburg.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev left in 1834 without graduating and enrolled at Saint Petersburg University to study Oriental languages.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev belonged to the moderate flank of the organization, being skeptical about republican ideas and seeing Socialism as a continuation of the old humanist basics of Christianity.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev was honoured for bravery and promoted to the rank of junior officer, then in 1856 was granted permission to become a civil servant.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev's works were published by magazines Russkoye Slovo, Vremya and Vek, newspapers Denh and Moskovsky Vestnik.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev's poetry became more radical, its leitmotif being the high mission of a revolutionary suffering from the society's indifference.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev wrote thirteen original plays, most of them satirical miniatures dealing with the everyday life of a Russian rural gentry.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev adapted for stage productions more than thirty comedies of foreign authors.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev initiated the project involving the publication of seven textbooks in the Geography Sketches and Pictures.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev supported financially the families of Gleb Uspensky and Semyon Nadson and started to finance Russkoye Slovo, a magazine edited by Nikolai Mikhaylovsky and Vladimir Korolenko.
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Aleksey Pleshcheyev's body was taken to Moscow and he was buried in the Novodevichye Cemetery.