Background
Alexander Nikolaevich Volgin was born in 1839 in Kostroma Region, Russian Federation.
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Alexander Nikolaevich Volgin
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In 1856 Alexander Nikolaevich entered the Technological Institute but was expelled (from the 3rd year) in January 1862 for participating in student performances.
Career
Alexander Nikolaevich joined the Great Russians and at the same time became the secret agent of the St. Petersburg chief police chief, through whom the III division received information from him about the Velikoruss group, about the land and will community, about the Chess club, The Pomorsky Club (at the Iskra).
The first press appearances also belonged to 1862 (verse Wind, Unhappy Life - newspaper Russkiy Mir). He was published in the Iskra magazine (1866-1868), The Alarm Clock (1866-1869), as well as in the Rus newspaper (1864) and the Entertainment magazine (1867--1868).
Volgin's collection of poems Funny Songs (1868) served as an occasion for M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin to consider the current state of satirical literature and, describing it as "impoverishing," to raise the question of the reasons forcing to write "not as desired." He also performed as a poet and lyric poet. Volgin’s stories were published in the newspaper Son of the Fatherland (Marriage - 1864, Golden Web - 1865, Kalinin's - 1866, Worldly Waves - 1866, etc.)
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October, 1869 (aged 30) -
Nationality
Russian Empire
Education
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1856 - January, 1862