Background
Nikolai Alekseevich Vitashevsky was born on September 8, 1857, in Odessa, Odes'ka Oblast', Ukraine. He was the son of a notary.
Actor ethnographer writer memoirist
Nikolai Alekseevich Vitashevsky was born on September 8, 1857, in Odessa, Odes'ka Oblast', Ukraine. He was the son of a notary.
In 1875 Nikolai Alekseevich graduated from a real school in Nikolaev, after which he studied at Novorossiysk University (Odessa). In 1876 he published the collection Thoughts of the Provincials.
In January 1878, the process of the populist I.M. Kovalsky was sentenced to 6 years of hard labor (the term was reduced to 4 years). He served his penal servitude in the Kharkov central penal servitude prison (Novobelgorodskaya), from where he was brought to Kara in 1882, and a year later went to a settlement in the Yakutsk region. He took a large part in statistical and ethnographic surveys of the Yakutsk region, in the commission on improving the land life of the Yakuts.
In 1897 he returned to Europe. He lived in Odessa and Nikolaev, where he edited the newspapers Nikolaevsky Courier and South Russia.
