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and was written when he was quite young; he
had sent it to a periodical, ‘The Contemporary,’
which was published by the famous critic
Bolinsky, and received contributions from the
rising star, the poet Nekrasof, and the celebrated
novelist Gregorovitsch. A great and general
revival took place at that time in Russian
literature. Turgenef, Gontscharof, and Herzen
appeared with their first works. The public
showed an unusual interest in literary
productions, and never had the demand for books and
periodicals been so great.
It was the year of revolt, 1848. All Europe
was in a state of excitement.
In St. Petersburg, particularly amongst the
students at the University and the pupils at the
Polytechnicon, numerous small societies were
formed, which at first only occupied themselves
with literary pursuits. But, as the police had
orders to prohibit all societies, of whatever
description they might be, the young men were
obliged to hold their meetings in secret, and so
by degrees they took a political character. It was
Petroschevski, an unusually clever man and warm
adherent of Fourier, who first conceived the idea
of joining all these small societies into one large
secret political confederation. However,
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