Struggle in Russia

Petrashevsky naturally didn't know that he had been targeted by Ordorf, and he had a very happy time during this period, because the revolutions in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna gave him a shot of chicken blood, which made his whole body His eyes are staring like copper bells, his ears are erect like antennas, like a cat with hairy hair, eagerly looking forward to the spring breeze blowing to St. Petersburg earlier.

Petrashevsky felt that the time to do something big was almost ripe. As a senior and irresponsible translator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he had access to too many first messages of foreign revolutions. The great achievements of foreign revolutionary masses made him think that Nicholas I and the Romanov family are paper tigers, and it only takes a gust of wind to reveal his original shape.

So these days, the activities of his Petrashevsky seminar group have become more and more frequent, and there will be meetings almost every three days. At the meeting, Maikov denounced the current situation and the pros and cons, and called on everyone to organize an underground printing The factory is ready to start printing revolutionary pamphlets at full capacity.

As for Mumberg, he even suggested not to be so conservative. Engraving stencils and making mimeographs is nothing like a revolution. A revolution requires knives and guns, and it must be real. Just start collecting weapons and ammunition to mobilize the masses and prepare to go to the streets!

Well, the Radicals have been fired up by the revolutions in Europe. If it weren't for the strong opposition from the liberals, Momberry would have single-handedly entered the Winter Palace to assassinate the king.

Anyway, after a period of discussion, both parties finally made concessions. The underground printing factory is imperative and cannot be delayed for a moment.

Both the radicals and the liberals agree with and look forward to this. After all, most of them are literati and have a bit of literacy, so it's easy to write an article to denounce Fang Qiu. But immediately the big guys had conflicts over what works to print.

Maikov is a poet, and his old father is a famous painter, so he has a serious literary problem. He likes the kind of artistic and beautiful poetry, so he requests to publish various anthologies of revolutionary poems.

It's just that his suggestion is not very popular with people. Mumberg thinks it's too sissy. To make a revolution, you have to be manly with real guns.

Momberg felt that revolutionary slogans should be published, focusing on propagating revolutionary ideas, requiring simple, easy-to-understand, catchy and easy-to-spread.

It's just that this was immediately complained by Maikov: "What kind of talk is this! Revolution is a baptism, a purification of the soul, and no praise can be overstated! Only beautiful long poems are worthy of her ! It is blasphemy to describe the revolution in such popular terms!"

This is so good that it didn't make Momberry mad. Who can understand the vague hints of your gorgeous rhetoric? Don't understand how to support our revolutionary ideas? A revolution is not a poetry contest, nor is it a courtship to a girl. What's the use of punishing those fools!

"The people don't understand,

That means they are not revolutionaries! "Maykov had no intention of introspection, and he didn't feel that it was of great use if ordinary people could not understand. He retorted arrogantly: "Our pamphlets are for revolutionaries, not for illiterates. Ass, let's figure out who we're serving! "

The two immediately became angry, and no one could convince the other, and the final result was naturally another compromise. There must be something easy to understand about the revolutionary policy and slogan, and there must be an anthology of beautiful revolutionary poems.

It's just that people with bright eyes can also see that Petrashevsky's group is really fun, it's just a small party of a group of sons and sisters who are dissatisfied with reality and full of energy and have nowhere to vent their energy.

Don't look at the smooth sailing at this time, they all talked about the revolution like chicken blood, as if they could sacrifice their lives generously for the revolution. But this is a typical hyperactive kid who has never been spanked, who thinks he is the king of the world, but is actually very fragile!

This is not a lie, just say that this Maikov, in 1848 and 1849, was still a revolutionary righteous who shouted and killed the tsarist autocracy and serfdom, but was sent into the palace by the wicked Nicholas I. After the Peter and Paul Fortress was closed for a while and then shot dead, it was completely frightened.

In an instant, he changed from an impassioned revolutionary radical to the most conservative and incompetent conservative. What kind of revolutionary passion, what kind of revolutionary prospect, what kind of great responsibility and great cause was all forgotten, and he became a soft eggless egg.

Therefore, it makes sense to say how to see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain. When the wind is going smoothly, you can't see a person's character. If you want to see through a person's humanity, you have to look at his performance when he is at his worst and most frustrated. If you stick to your philosophy as before and never give up, or even go to a higher level and have more motivation and fighting spirit, then such a person is definitely not bad.

And a guy like Maikov, who is really a lip service revolutionary party, can be blown away by a gust of wind, at most it is just a grain of sand in the long river of history.

Of course, most of the small partners who participated in Petrashevsky's group were actually on the same level as Maykov, so what about Dostoyevsky? He was scared to pee as before, and his performance was not much better, but he didn't transform as badly as Maykov.

But this is also normal, because as mentioned earlier, Petrashevsky’s group is a group of little kids who are dissatisfied with reality but have not experienced the reality of the hammer. They just talk about revolutionaries. Rather than saying that they got together to discuss revolution, it would be better to say that they were having an alternative carnival PARTY.

The feelings at the PARTY are not real, but these poor little people don't know what a heavy price they will pay for this carnival.

Compared with Petrashevsky's flashy friends, Nekrasov, Belinsky, and Chernyshevsky were more determined. They were also full of joy in the face of the revolutionary storm, but these three were calmer and more determined.

It's just that at this moment, Belinsky, who had a huge influence on the Russian Revolution, was in a bad situation. He was just 37 years old and was very sick, almost dying.

This made his closest friends such as Nekrasov and Chernyshevsky very frustrated, and finally waited for a new revolutionary climax, but his close comrades who have been propagating revolutionary ideas and looking forward to this day can only How cruel it is to be able to lie on the hospital bed and observe all this!

"Poor Vessarion, he may not survive the summer!" Chernyshevsky said sadly.

Nekrasov lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and replied heavily: "Hope for a miracle! My friend, I have heard that Mikhail Vasilyevich's circle has been very active recently. ? Ready to start a riot?"