Background
Sergei Alexandrovich Basov-Verkhoyantsev was born in 1869 in Tula oblast', Russian Federation.
Sergei Alexandrovich Basov-Verkhoyantsev was born in 1869 in Tula oblast', Russian Federation.
Sergei Alexandrovich studied at the Tula Gymnasium.
Since 1883 Sergei Alexandrovich participated in the people's groups of Tula and Kharkiv. Since 1887 he took part in the revolutionary movement, conducted propaganda among the peasants, and was a national teacher. Sergei Alexandrovich was repeatedly arrested and deported. For the preparation of the expropriation in 1896, Sergei Alexandrovich was exiled for 8 years to the Yakutsk region and the city of Verkhoyansk (for this reason the pseudonym "Verkhoyantsev").
Sergei Alexandrovich worked at a weather station, participated in an expedition to explore the islands of the Novosibirsk archipelago. He studied languages and jurisprudence. In the fall of 1904, he went to Paris, where he became a student of the Russian Higher School of Social Sciences.
Returning Sergei Alexandrovich took part in the activities of the Combat Organization of the Social Revolutionary Party. He participated in the preparation of the assassination attempt on the Minister of Justice N.V. Muravyov, in January 1905 he was arrested, was held in the Peter and Paul Fortress until the amnesty in November 1905.
Sergei Alexandrovich began to print widely only after 1905. In 1906 he published, under the pseudonym Verkhoyantsev, a revolutionary satirical tale in the verses “Konek-Skakunok”. The book has gained great popularity and has been reprinted several times. In 1906-1908 he wrote popular articles and books.
Since 1910 Sergei Alexandrovich lived in Saint Petersburg.
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1935His political views are clearly seen in his works. Sergei Alexandrovich opposed tsarism and supported peasant movements.
Quotes from others about the person
Lenin considered his works "very useful for the peasants, because they mockingly ridicules the tsar’s house, the autocratic government, and the entire bureaucratic system of tsarist Russia".
