Inspiring revolution: Chenyshevsky and “What is to be Done?”
On May 19, 1864, the well known journalist and propagandist Nikolai Chernyshevsky was led onto Mytninskaya Square in St. Petersburg, now Chernyshevskaya metro station, to the gallows. He had been found guilty of revolutionary activities and condemned to a “civil execution”. Chernyshevsky (1828-89) was born in Saratov and after studying at a seminary he moved to St. Petersburg in 1846…
