Background
In accordance with Russian Illegitimacy custom, Pnin"s surname was the transcript of that of his father, Prince Nicholas Repnin.
In accordance with Russian Illegitimacy custom, Pnin"s surname was the transcript of that of his father, Prince Nicholas Repnin.
Moscow university boarding school.
Born out of wedlock, he famously deplored the status of illegitimate children in his 1802 petition to Alexander I of Russia (Pnin"s father was rumored to have also illegitimately fathered Poland"s Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski)
Pnin"s liberal Essay on the Enlightenment in Russia (1804) attacked serfdom and therefore was banned in the Russian Empire.