caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place subject children imagesize influences nationality birth_date period image article_title name occupation alma_mater
a. n. pleshcheyev , 1880s 8 october 1893 paris , france aleksey nikolayevich pleshcheyev kostroma , russian empire political satire children poetry a. a. pleshcheyev -lrb- 1858 -- 1944 -rrb- 200px nikolay nekrasov russian 4 december 1825 1846-1993 plescheev 3.jpg aleksey pleshcheyev
 aleksey pleshcheyev poet writer translator political activist saint petersburg state university
aleksey pleshcheyev

aleksey nikolayevich pleshcheyev -lrb- ; 8 october 1893 -rrb- was a radical russian poet of the 19th century , once a member of the petrashevsky circle .
pleshcheyev 's first book of poetry , published in 1846 , made him famous : `` step forward !
without fear or doubt ... '' became widely known as `` a russian `` la marseillaise '' '' -lrb- and was sung as such , using french melody -rrb- , `` friends ' calling ... '' and `` we 're brothers by the way we feel ... '' were also adopted by the mid-1840s ' russian radical youth as revolutionary hymns .
in 1849 , as a member of petrashevsky circle , pleshcheyev was arrested , sent -lrb- alongside fyodor dostoyevsky among others -rrb- to saint petersburg and spent 8 months in peter and paul fortress .
having initially been given a death sentence , pleshcheyev was then deported to uralsk , near orenburg where he spent ten years in exile , serving first as a soldier , later as a junior officer .
in his latter life pleshcheyev became widely known for his numerous translations -lrb- mostly from english and french -rrb- and also poems for children , some of which are now considered classic .
many of pleshcheyev 's poems have been set to music -lrb- by tchaikovsky and rachmaninoff among others -rrb- to become popular russian romances .
