1821. Mikhail Petrashevsky was born

195 years ago, on November 13, 1821, Mikhail Vasilievich Petrashevsky, an adherent of the ideas of utopian socialism, was born. In 1848, he created a secret circle that promotes these ideas, which was a participant in Dostoevsky. After the defeat of the circle by the authorities in 1849, Petrashevsky was sentenced to death with the replacement of unlimited hard labor in Eastern Siberia. In 1856, he was transferred to exile -settlers. In 1860, for speeches against the arbitrariness of the Irkutsk authorities, Petrashevsky was sent from Irkutsk to the village of Shushenskoye district.