A Russian writer. The author of the novels "Chto delat'?" ("What is to be done?") (1863), "Prolog" ("Prologue") (1867-69) and some philosophical and literary works.
The text was taken from
N. Chernyshevskij, Izbrannye sochinenija, Moskva-Leningrad,
"Khudozhestvennaja literatura", 1950.