USSR / Russia 1961 Medal 150th anniversary of the birth of V.G. Belinsky, UNC

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Russia - USSR medal 150th anniversary of the birth of V.G. Belinsky, 1961
Shkurko, Salykov 216. UNC Diameter 65mm. 113g. Tompac. Mintage 1026 pc. N.A. Sokolov.
"150 лет со дня рождения В.Г.Белинского"

Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (1811–1848) was the foremost Russian literary critic of the nineteenth century and is widely regarded as the father of the Russian radical intelligentsia.

Born on June 11, 1811 (May 30, Old Style), in Sveaborg (now Suomenlinna, Finland), then part of the Russian Empire, Belinsky was the son of a provincial doctor. He spent his childhood in the town of Chembar in Penza province. After attending local schools, he entered Moscow University in 1829 but was expelled in 1832, partly for writing a play critical of serfdom and partly because of poor health and conflicts with the authorities. Largely self-educated thereafter, he suffered lifelong poverty and tuberculosis.

Belinsky began his career as a journalist and critic in the mid-1830s. His series of articles “Literary Reveries” (1834) in the journal Telescope established his reputation. He later became the leading critic of the influential journals Otechestvennye Zapiski (“Notes of the Fatherland”) and, from 1846, Sovremennik (“The Contemporary”). Through passionate, philosophically informed essays he helped define Russian literary standards, championing realism and the idea that literature should serve social progress and national self-awareness.

He was an early and enthusiastic supporter of Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, and the young Fyodor Dostoevsky. His detailed studies of Pushkin’s work and his promotion of the “Natural School” of writers shaped the direction of Russian prose. In 1847, while abroad for health reasons, he wrote his famous Letter to Gogol, a fierce denunciation of the writer’s later conservative and religious views. Circulated widely in manuscript, the letter became a foundational text for the Russian radical tradition.

Belinsky died of consumption in St. Petersburg on June 7, 1848 (May 26, Old Style), at the age of thirty-six, just as the authorities were preparing to arrest him for his political opinions. Despite his short life and material hardships, his moral intensity, insistence on literature’s social responsibility, and defense of progressive ideas left a profound and lasting imprint on Russian thought and letters.

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