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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kornilov
Александр Корнилов
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Russian historian, writer. Graduated from St. Petersburg University. He served as commissar for peasant affairs in the Kingdom of Poland, then (until 1900) under the Irkutsk Governor-General.
For participation in the protest 42 writers against the beating of young people in the square in front of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg was expelled to Saratov in April 1901. In 1904 he lived in Paris, worked in the editorial office of the journal P. V. Struve "Liberation".
Returning to Russia, he
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Russian historian, writer. Graduated from St. Petersburg University. He served as commissar for peasant affairs in the Kingdom of Poland, then (until 1900) under the Irkutsk Governor-General.
For participation in the protest 42 writers against the beating of young people in the square in front of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg was expelled to Saratov in April 1901. In 1904 he lived in Paris, worked in the editorial office of the journal P. V. Struve "Liberation".
Returning to Russia, he participated in the formation of the Cadets Party and in 1905–08 was secretary of its Central Committee. Since 1909, professor of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, where he read the “Course of the History of Russia of the XIX century.”
Author of works on the history of Russia of the 19th century (social movement of the 30-50s, Peasant Reform of 1861, etc.).