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Nov 01, 1818 Moscow, Russia Died on 20 Jul 1887 (aged 68)
Russian politician
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About Mikhail Katkov
- Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov (Russian: ?????´? ????´??????? ?????´?; 13 February 1818 – 1 August 1887) was a conservative Russian journalist influential during the reign of tsar Alexander III.
- He was a proponent of Russian nationalism, an important figure in the creation of a feeling of national identity and purpose.
- After the Crimean War (1856) and the Polish insurrection of 1863, Katkov abandoned his liberal Anglophile views and rejected the early reforms of tsar Alexander II.
- Instead he promoted a strong Russian state supported by an enthusiastic Russian people with a unified national outlook.
- His ideas were based on Western ideas (as opposed to Slavophile ideas).
- His literary magazine Russkii Vestnik (:The Russian Messenger") and newspaper Moskovskie Vedomosti ("Moscow News") were successful and influential media for promoting his views.
