Angel Bahdanovich

Background

Angel Bogdanovich was born in Vitebsk, an heir to a noble family of the Polish and Lithuanian origins.

Career

In 1880 he enrolled into the Kiev University. In 1887 he moved to Kazan, there he edited the Volzhsky Vesnik newspaper. In 1893, now a Saint St. Petersburg resident, he founded there Narodnoye Pravo (People"s Right) group and issued its political program in a brochure called Nasushchny Vopros (A Vital Question, 1894).

In the early 1890s Bogdanovich regularly contributed to Russkoye Bogatstvo, in 1894-1906 was a co-editor of and a key figure in Mir Bozhiy.

In 1906 Mir Bozhiy was closed but re-emerged as Sovremenny Mir (Modern World) and for a year Bogdanovich was its editors Angel Bogdanovich died in Saint St. Petersburg on April 6, 1907.

Membership

As a student of the medical faculty, he became a member of a Narodnik political circle, was expelled and got deported to the Nizny Novgorod governorate. In the mid-1890s Bogdanovich drifted away from Narodniks and became a member of the Legal Marxists group.

Connections

Friend:

Vladimir Korolenko