About Nikolay Turgenev
Lived 1789 – 1871 (aged 82). Nikolay Turgenev was a Russian and French economist and writer.
Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev , (23 October, 1789, Simbirsk–10 November 1871, Bougival near Paris) was an early Russian economist and political theoretician who gained renown for his Essay on the Theory of Taxation and Russia and the Russians (1847). A relative of the novelist Ivan Turgenev, Nikolay co-founded several reformist societies, notably the Northern Society of the Decembrists. Being abroad during the fateful Rebellion of 1825, he chose never to return to his homeland, where he was tried in absentia and sentenced to Siberian katorga for life.
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Russian economist (1789-1871)
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Nikolay Turgenev was born on 23 October 1789 in Ulyanovsk.
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Nikolay Turgenev died on 10 November 1871 in Bougival, Rueil-Malmaison.
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Nikolay Turgenev was an economist and writer.
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Nikolay Turgenev was Russian and French.
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