Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev (; – ) was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great.

Radishchev was born into a minor noble family on an estate just outside of Moscow.

Because of his exceptional academic promise, Radishchev was chosen of one of a dozen young students to be sent abroad to acquire Western learning.

Under the reign of Alexander I, Radishchev was briefly employed to help revise Russian law, a realization of his lifelong dream.

* 1790: Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Alexander Radishchev

Catherine, already frightened by the French Revolution, had Radishchev arrested and banished to Siberia.

Pushkin also praised a version of Bova by Alexander Radishchev, written in 1799.

* Alexander Radishchev, in his Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow ( 1790 ), refers to the story of St Alexis as sung by a blind soldier begging in Klin, near Moscow.

Although he accused many of Jacobinism, he allowed Catherine's best known critic, Radishchev, to return from Siberian exile.

Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev, for example, shocked the Russian public with his depictions of the socio-economic condition of the serfs.

Saratov is noted for several art museums, including the Radischev Art Museum, named for Alexander Radishchev.

The Russian writer Alexander Radishchev, in his Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, attacked the Russian government, in particular the institution of serfdom.

* Alexander Radishchev ( 1749 – 1802 ) Russian.

This Empress Catherine II condemned this portrayal, forcing Radishchev into exile in Siberia.

Image: Radishchev color. jpg | Alexander Radishchev

Along with Radishchev, he liberated Novikov from Schlüsselburg fortress, and also Tadeusz Kościuszko, yet after liberation both were confined to their own estates under police supervision.

After the French revolution Catherine the Great panicked and exiled the 2 leading intelligents: the conservative Nikolai Novikov and the radical Alexander Radishchev.

In 1790, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev published his Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, a fierce attack on serfdom and on the autocracy.

Radishchev later gained recognition as the father of Russian radicalism.

Other people incarcerated in the " Russian Bastille " include Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, Artemy Volynsky, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Alexander Radishchev, the Decembrists, Grigory Danilevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bakunin, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Leon Trotsky and Josip Broz Tito.

The shadow of Radishchev in the Fortress crosses my mind.

The figure stopped and one hand was perilously freed from the hamper to scratch the nose.

One of the eight defendants was freed on a directed verdict of acquittal.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen ( newly freed slaves ), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U. S. House of Representatives ; he was acquitted by the U. S. Senate.

It was increasingly seen as a noble effort to integrate the freed slaves into society.

He also vanquished Alfonso VII of León, came to the rescue of his mother, whose nephew he was, and thus freed the kingdom from political dependence on the crown of his cousin of León.

He was freed in 1418 after a heavy ransom had been paid by the Medicis.

An accord was made between him and the Bohemian Duke Borivoj I ( reigned 870-95 ); Bohemia was thus freed from the dangers of invasion.

By the age of 64 after forty years imprisonment ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá was freed by the Young Turks and he and his family began to live in relative safety.

The direct result of the battle of Schwetz / Świecino was that the city of Danzig and Pomerania were freed from Teutonic Order danger so that the royal and municipal armed forces could be used elsewhere in the war, mainly to protect the Vistula waterway and to capture the Teutonic held strongholds.

Interestingly, however, Gongo Lutete himself was apparently sickened by the cannibalism of his own people, having been raised from an early age in Arab customs as a slave to the infamous Swahili-Zanzibari merchant Tippu Tip, who eventually freed Gongo in return for his bravery in battle.

This discovery was a major paradigm shift in mathematics, as it freed mathematicians from the mistaken belief that Euclid's axioms were the only way to make geometry consistent and non-contradictory.

On August 6, 2012, CDE was freed under the LGPL free software license. Its source code is available at SourceForge.

Bishop Christian continued his mission in Sambia ( Samland ), where from 1233 to 1239 he was held captive by pagan Prussians, and freed in trade for five other hostages who then in turn were released for a ransom of 800 Marks, granted to him by Pope Gregory IX.

Deirdre was freed after three weeks, with Granada stating that they had always intended for her to be released, in spite of the media interest.

Cortés then freed Cuitláhuac and once Cuitláhuac was free he led his people against the conquistadors.

When John Dickinson freed his slaves in 1777, he was Delaware's largest slave owner with 37 slaves.

The independent black denomination was chartered by freed slave Peter Spencer in 1813 as the " Union Church of Africans ".

Ephemeris time ( ET ), adopted as standard in 1952, was originally designed as an approach to a uniform time scale, to be freed from the effects of irregularity in the rotation of the earth, " for the convenience of astronomers and other scientists ", for example for use in ephemerides of the Sun ( as observed from the Earth ), the Moon, and the planets.

Arundel and Howard cleared themselves of Oxford's accusations, although Howard remained under house arrest into August, while Arundel was not freed until October or November.

It is possible that bipedalism was favored because it freed up the hands for reaching and carrying food, saved energy during locomotion, enabled long distance running and hunting, or helped avoid hyperthermia by reducing the surface area exposed to direct sun.