Background
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shchepkin was born on February 28, 1820 in Poltava, Krasnodar, Russian Federation. He was the son of Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shchepkin was born on February 28, 1820 in Poltava, Krasnodar, Russian Federation. He was the son of Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin.
Nikolai Mikhailovich graduated from Moscow University (1844) and joined the military service as a non-commissioned officer in November of the same year.
In the autumn of 1848 year – Lieutenant of the Dragoon regiment. Nikolai Mikhailovich lived in the city of Ostrogozhsk and Voronezh. He soon retired and moved to Moscow, where he was engaged in publishing and bookselling activities. In 1856-1862, he published books together with K.T. Soldatenkov (the first published was a collection of poems by A.V. Koltsov), later independently.