Nechaev

The definitive proof of Dostoevsky's intentions are the Notebooks on The Possessed, which show his consistent effort to construct the character Petr Verkhovensky (referred to throughout the Notebooks as "Nechaev") on the basis of what he knew about Nechaev.

Art and Life Strelsky, Katharine 1976

In the 1870s Tolstoy visited the fortress, where Nechaev was then languishing; he was researching his never-finished novel about the Decembrist conspirators.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

In the 1870s Tolstoy visited the fortress, where Nechaev was then languishing; he was researching his never-finished novel about the Decembrist conspirators.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

If the Tsar forbore to execute the darkest of the terroristprinces who had been caught up in his nets, Sergei Nechaev, it was perhaps because he could not decide whether it would bemore agreeable to kill him outright or bury him alive in a ravelin of the Fortress of Peter and Paul.1

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

If the Tsar forbore to execute the darkest of the terroristprinces who had been caught up in his nets, Sergei Nechaev, it was perhaps because he could not decide whether it would bemore agreeable to kill him outright or bury him alive in a ravelin of the Fortress of Peter and Paul.1

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

If the Tsar forbore to execute the darkest of the terroristprinces who had been caught up in his nets, Sergei Nechaev, it was perhaps because he could not decide whether it would bemore agreeable to kill him outright or bury him alive in a ravelin of the Fortress of Peter and Paul.1

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

If the Tsar forbore to execute the darkest of the terroristprinces who had been caught up in his nets, Sergei Nechaev, it was perhaps because he could not decide whether it would bemore agreeable to kill him outright or bury him alive in a ravelin of the Fortress of Peter and Paul.1

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

If the Tsar forbore to execute the darkest of the terroristprinces who had been caught up in his nets, Sergei Nechaev, it was perhaps because he could not decide whether it would bemore agreeable to kill him outright or bury him alive in a ravelin of the Fortress of Peter and Paul.1

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

In the 1870s Tolstoy visited the fortress, where Nechaev was then languishing; he was researching his never-finished novel about the Decembrist conspirators.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

In the 1870s Tolstoy visited the fortress, where Nechaev was then languishing; he was researching his never-finished novel about the Decembrist conspirators.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007