Vissarion Belinsky

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human journalist literary critic public intellectual social thinker

Vissarion Belinsky was a 19th-century Russian literary critic and social thinker known for his influential role in shaping Russian intellectual and literary life.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Vissarion Belinsky canonical	4
Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky	1

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ public intellectual ⓘ social thinker ⓘ
causeOfDeath	tuberculosis ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Russian Empire ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1811-06-11 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1848-06-07 ⓘ
educatedAt	Moscow State University ⓘ surface form: Moscow University
era	19th century ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Russian ⓘ
familyName	Belinsky ⓘ
fieldOfWork	journalism ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ social philosophy ⓘ
fullName	Vissarion Belinsky self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky
genre	essay ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ
givenName	Vissarion ⓘ
influenced	Fyodor Dostoevsky ⓘ Ivan Turgenev ⓘ Nikolai Chernyshevsky ⓘ Russian literary realism ⓘ Russian radical intelligentsia ⓘ
influencedBy	Alexander Pushkin ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ surface form: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel German idealism ⓘ Nikolai Gogol ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Russian ⓘ
memberOf	Westernizer movement ⓘ surface form: Westernizers (Russian intelligentsia)
movement	Realism ⓘ surface form: Russian realism Westernizer ⓘ radical liberalism ⓘ
nativeLanguage	Russian ⓘ
notableFor	criticism of autocracy and serfdom ⓘ promoting socially engaged literature ⓘ shaping 19th-century Russian literary criticism ⓘ
notableIdea	commitment to realism in literature ⓘ critique of serfdom ⓘ literature as a tool for social change ⓘ social mission of literature ⓘ
notableWork	Essays on Russian Literature ⓘ Letter to Gogol ⓘ Literary Dreams ⓘ
occupation	journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ philosopher ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Grand Duchy of Finland ⓘ Helsinki ⓘ Russian coastal fortifications at Sveaborg ⓘ surface form: Sveaborg
placeOfDeath	Russian Empire ⓘ Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire ⓘ surface form: Saint Petersburg
religion	atheism ⓘ
residence	Moscow ⓘ St. Petersburg ⓘ surface form: Saint Petersburg

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Subject: Vissarion Belinsky
Description of subject: Vissarion Belinsky was a 19th-century Russian literary critic and social thinker known for his influential role in shaping Russian intellectual and literary life.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Russian Thinkers → notablePersonDiscussed → Vissarion Belinsky ⓘ

Westernizer movement → notableFigure → Vissarion Belinsky ⓘ

The Coast of Utopia → mainCharacter → Vissarion Belinsky ⓘ

Vissarion Belinsky → fullName → Vissarion Belinsky self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky

Pyotr Chaadayev → influenced → Vissarion Belinsky ⓘ