Angel Ivanovich Bogdanovich was a Russian literary critic, publicist and social activist, originally a Narodnik, later an active member of the Legal Marxists' political group.
Background
Angel Ivanovich Bogdanovich was born on October, 2 (14), 1860, in Haradok, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Haradok, Vitebsk Region, Belarus). He was an heir to a noble family of the Polish and Lithuanian origins. He was the son of the county judge. His brother was a Russian and Polish geologist (Karl Bogdanovich).
Education
From the 5th grade, Angel Bogdanovich lived on his own earnings. He studied at the gymnasium in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1880 he enrolled in the Kiev University (the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). As a student of the medical school, he became a member of a Narodnik political circle, but he was expelled and got deported to the Nizny Novgorod governorate.
Career
In 1890-1892 with the assistance of Korolenko, Angel Ivanovich began to collaborate in the newspaper Volzhsky Vestnik, Kazansky birzhevoy Listok and others.
In 1892-1894, Angel Ivanovich was a member of the People's Rights Party, notably, a member of the Party Council. He was one of the authors of its manifesto. He owns the text of the programmatic pamphlet The Urgent Question, which was published in 1894 in the Smolensk-based underground printing press without the author's name. In 1895 the 2nd edition appears in London, which proclaimed the need to fight for political freedoms.
In December 1892, Angel Ivanovich was invited to the Russkoye Bogatstvo. He moved to Saint Petersburg with a letter of recommendation written by Korolenko to N. K. Mikhailovsky; throughout the year he had been chronicling the inner life and review of the country press in the magazine.
In the mid-1890s Angel Ivanovich drifted away from Narodniks and became a member of the Legal Marxists group. In 1894 having diverged his views with the rest of the editors, he transferred to Mir Bozhiy, where he became a co-editor. Focusing on the average reader, he considered the magazine as a resource of political and cultural education for democratic sectors.
Since the late 90s. according to numerous contemporaries, Angel Ivanovich became one of the most popular literary critics in a democratic environment. In 1905, Angel Ivanovich left literary criticism, turning to pure journalism.
In 1892-94, he was a member of the People's Rights Party, notably, a member of the Party Council. The most important goal of the party is the struggle against autocracy and democratic reforms.
Connections
In 1898, Angel Ivanovich married Tatyana Alexandrovna Krill. She was a writer, historian, translator, and famous children’s book writer. Bogdanovich had four children (one son, three daughters). In 1938 the eldest daughter died in prison in Kharkov. His son was killed in the war in 1941.