  sergey gennadiyevich nechayev (or nyechayev; ) (october 2, 1847 &ndash; november 21 or december 3, 1882) was a russian revolutionary associated with the nihilist movement and known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution by any means necessary, including political violence. ==early life in russia== nechayev was born in ivanovo, then a small textile town, to poor parentsâhis father was a waiter and sign painter. his mother died when he was eight. his father remarried and had two more sons. they lived in a three room house with his two sisters and grandparents. they were ex serfs who had moved to ivanovo. he had already developed an awareness of social inequality and a resentment of the local nobility in his youth. at 10, nechayev had learned his father's tradesâwaiting at banquets and painting signs. his father got him a job as an errand boy in a factory. nechayev's response was: "i won't wipe the boots of those devils." his family paid for good tutors who taught him latin, german, french, history, maths and rhetoric.ana siljak, angel of vengeance, page 90 in 1865 at age 18, nechayev moved to moscow, where he worked for the historian mikhael pogodin. a year later, he moved to st. petersburg, passed a teacher's exam and began teaching at a parish school. from september 1868, nechayev attended lectures at st. petersburg university (as an auditor, he was never enrolled) and became acquainted with the subversive russian literature of the decembrists, the petrashevsky circle, and mikhail bakunin, among others, as well as the growing student unrest at the university. nechaev was even said to have slept on bare wood and lived on black bread in imitation of rakhmetov, the ascetic revolutionary in chernyshevsky's novel what is to be done?.andrew michael drozd, chernyshevskii's what is to be done?: a reevaluation, page 115 inspired by the failed attempt on the tsar's life by karakozov, nechayev participated in student activism in 1868â1869, leading a [[radicalism (historic
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