person
Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov
Dobrolyubov
also: Добролюбов, Николай Александрович Добролюбов
Nikolai Dobrolyubov (1836-1861), influential radical critic of the 1860s associated with The Contemporary, whose social-minded literary criticism was standard reading for politically engaged students of the era; paired with Pisarev in Shalikov's memory as a marker of the progressive university years he has since abandoned.
Reading notes
- Ivanov §362 a second Dobrolyubov
Nikolai Dobrolyubov (1836-1861), the influential radical critic of the 1860s associated with the journal The Contemporary, whose socially engaged criticism and demand for moral/civic "honest labor" in literature and life became, within a generation, a byword -- sometimes admiring, sometimes (as here) mocking -- for a certain strident, self-righteous progressive rectitude. Count Shabelsky's sarcastic comparison of Dr. Lvov to "a second Dobrolyubov" captures exactly this: Lvov's insistence on plain-spoken honesty and "honest labor" is, in Shabelsky's telling, indistinguishable from a stock pose.
- Neighbors §67 Dobrolyubov
See the note at "Pisarev or Darwin" above; Dobrolyubov is the third name in Vlasich's small, unvarying rotation of progressive-canon authors.
- Three Sisters §65 Dobrolyubov
Nikolai Dobrolyubov (1836-1861) was an influential radical literary critic of the 1850s-60s; Chebutykin's admission that he knows Dobrolyubov only as a name from old newspapers, with no idea what the man actually wrote, is a small, telling confession of his own decades of intellectual idleness.