Nikolai Annensky

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Nikolai Feodorovich Annensky (

In 1869, Annensky was arrested, but later released, when the police were investigating a murder committed by the revolutionary Sergey Nechayev, whose associates included Alexandra's brother, Pyotr Tkachev.^[2]

In the 1870s and 80s, Annensky was a major representative of Legal Populism and contributed to such journals as Notes of the Fatherland (Otechestvennye Zapiski) and The Cause (Delo). At the same time, he kept in contact with illegal narodnik circles.

Annensky was arrested again in 1879, after an attempt on the life of the Tsar Alexander II by the revolutionary Alexander Soloviev, but was released after he had proved his innocence. In 1880, he was arrested for the third time, on the grounds of "political unreliability" and exiled to Tara, which at that time was in Tobolsk province, in Siberia.^[2] Released in 1883, he worked as a statistician in Kazan, and then as head of Nizhni Novgorod provincial zemstvo, in 1887-95. In 1893, he was involved in founding the People's Right party. In 1895, he became head of the statistical office of the city administration of St. Petersburg. At the same time, he joined the Free Economic Society and the radical St. Petersburg Writers Union. Annensky's work as a statistician enabled him to gather valuable information on the social conditions of workers and peasants in turn-of-the-century Russia.

In 1901, he was arrested and exiled again for participating in an anti-government demonstration. After his release, he lived in Finland, where he was involved in founding the

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