Alexander the Janiter (Dvornik)

The article is a review of a two-volume monograph by Yu. A. Pelevin about the revolutionary populist Alexander Mikhailov. The plots from the revolutionary's life described in the work (family atmosphere, initial path to radicalism, propaganda work among the Old Believers) are singled out as having laid the foundation for his personality and then - revolutionary ethics. The researcher's too close attention to the context of the revolutionary movement, pushing the figure of Mikhailov into the background, is criticized. Attention is drawn to Mikhailov's work with the underground agent in the police Kletochnikov, the romantic attachment of the protagonist, the story of his arrest as demonstrating the "human" in him and the position of the organization by the end of 1880 The document "Testament" of Mikhailov is analyzed.

People’s Will party, Land and Freedom, Alexander Maikhailov, Yuri Pelevin, Grigory Kan