Author: Nikolaĭ Alekseevich Nekrasov
Alternate names: N. A. Nekrasov; Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov; Nikolaǐ Alekseevich Nekrasov; Nikola Alekseevich Nekrasov; Nīkolaĭ Aleksi͡eevīch Nekrasov
Born: 10 December 1821
Died: 8 January 1877
Bio: Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Некра́сов) was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of the mid-nineteenth century.