# Chernyshévsky — Memoirs of a Revolutionist character guide

> Chernyshévsky in Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropotkin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Chernyshévsky

**First appearance:** 0033-i

## Who they are

Russian revolutionary democrat and writer.

## In the story

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/viii)

Leader of the advanced party in the emancipation struggle, discussed in the Contemporary.

### [The Great Fire and the Turning Point](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as a figure whose writings were once admired by Kropotkin's cousin and the Horse Guard officers.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/iv)

Mentioned as having been arrested and imprisoned in the fortress for 'State considerations.'

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/xii)

Author of 'What Is to Be Done?'; his portrayal of nihilists was seen by youth as a better model than Turgenev's Bazarov.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/xi)

Released from Siberia but forced to stay in Astrakhan, isolated from intellectual life, and soon dies.

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