Background
Alexander Gieroglifov was born on November 3, 1825, in Penza, Russian Federation. He was the son of a clergyman.
Alexander Gieroglifov was born on November 3, 1825, in Penza, Russian Federation. He was the son of a clergyman.
From 1841 Alexander Gieroglifov served in the Ministry of State Property (in the Penza Chamber until 1845, then in the 2nd department of the ministry), in May 1857 he retired, taking up journalism. Later, Alexander Gieroglifov returned to service twice - at the Main Redemption Office of the Ministry of Finance (1863-1874, 1882-1895). Then he retired as a state adviser.
His first articles (on historical topics and internal issues) were published in the late 50s in the "Northern Bee". In 1859 - 1860 Alexander Gieroglifov published weekly "Theater and Music Bulletin" and "Theater Chronicle" (reports on dramatic performances), usually stating its content and an overall assessment, instead of critically analyzing the play. Author of On Stage Art (1859) and On the Character of Sophia in Mountain from the Mind (1859) articles. In May 1860 he received publishing rights to the weekly Russian World, but transferred them to Stellovsky in August, and became an editor.
Among Gieroglifov’s works for the "Russian World" is the article On Government Relations to Literature in Russia and the Other European States (1862) and Can the Nobility Merge with the People? (1862); both were in the spirit of opposition. Since January 1862, Alexander Gieroglifov is the publisher of the satirical journal Gudok. In 1863, he published the article Love and Nihilism in "the Russian Word", where he argued that the relationship of nihilists to love is more moral than in the surrounding society. In the article Chicherin and his Philosophy, Alexander Gieroglifov argued about the legitimacy of the opposition, spoke out for freedom of the press, against the privileges of the nobility.
In January 1859, Alexander Gieroglifov was arrested for distributing the works of A. Herzen, and in 1862 he sold the forbidden vignette of "Gudok". In 1861 he participated in the distribution of "Velikoruss". He was perceived by the authorities as an active member of the Chernyshevsky society and the company. In 1873-1874 Alexander Gieroglifov published the Magazine of Hunting and Horse Breeding and in 1875-1876 the illustration magazine Bee. The newspaper Glasnost (1881) is Gieroglifov's last literary enterprise (publisher, editor, author of most articles). Some of his publications were destroyed by censorship, including the book On the causes of the decline of France (Saint Petersburg, 1871).
In the article Chicherin and his Philosophy, Alexander Gieroglifov argued about the legitimacy of the opposition, spoke out for freedom of the press, against the privileges of the nobility.
In 1861 Alexander Gieroglifov participated in the distribution of "Velikoruss". He was perceived by the authorities as an active member of the Chernyshevsky society and the company. At the same time, Gieroglifov’s public position wasn't certain, he cooperated both with radical and liberal publications.
In the second half of the 60s Gieroglifov’s speeches are dominated by the idea of pan-Slavism, which is understood as a free and equal association of the Slavs into a federal state, where external security will be a condition for the democratic development of every nation. He first expressed this in the newspaper "Russian-Slavic Echoes (1868). Three times the newspaper received warnings for Gieroglifov’s articles criticizing the government’s policy towards Poland. In 1862 he tried to print the article "Essays on the history of socialism" in the "Russian world" but it was detained by censorship. Instead of half-Slavophiles beliefs he preaches "state socialism", meaning government regulation of the economy, the increase in the number of state enterprises, and social legislation. At the same time, Alexander Gieroglifov, on the one hand, criticizes the liberals for striving for bourgeois freedoms, which, in his opinion, are not needed by the hungry people, and on the other hand, dissociates himself from the "revolutionary socialism" of the Narodniks.
In 1863, Alexander Gieroglifov published the article Love and Nihilism in "the Russian Word", where he argued that the relationship of nihilists to love is more moral than in the surrounding society.