Nikolay Turgenev
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 (1818) 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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Nikolay Turgenev

Головачев, П. М. Декабристы: 86 портретов, вид Петровского завода и 2 бытовых рисунка того времени. - М., [1906] · Public domain
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- 1789 · Ulyanovsk.
- Died
- 1871 · Bougival.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · France
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- economist · writer
- Education
- Moscow university boarding school · University of Göttingen
- Languages
- Russian · French
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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 (1818) 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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Born at Ulyanovsk in 1789, died in Bougival in 1871.
Nikolay Turgenev studied at Moscow university boarding school and University of Göttingen. The recorded working language is Russian and French.

Тургенев, Николай Иванович. Париж. 1860-е годы
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Тургенев, Николай Иванович
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- 1.Е. К. Беспалова, Е. К. Рыкова. Симбирский род Тургеневых. 2011.
- 2.Тургенев (Николай Иванович). Brockhaus-Efron
- 3.Nikolaj Ivanovitj T. 30. 359.
- 4.А.А.Ялбулганов. Опыт теории налогов" Н.И.Тургенева и развитие финансовой мысли в России XIX–XX вв. 1998.
- 5.Тургенев Н.И. Россия и русские. 1915.
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