Mikhail Katkov

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Mikhail Katkov

Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov (1818-1887) was a conservative

Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social term whose meaning has changed in different countries and time periods, but which usually indicates support for the status quo or the status quo ante....
Russia

Russia

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n journalist influential during the reign of Alexander III

Alexander III of Russia

Alexander III Alexandrovich , also known as Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Tsar of Russia from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894....
.

Katkov was born of a Russian government official and a Georgian noblewoman. On finishing his course at the Moscow University Katkov devoted himself to literature and philosophy, and showed so little individuality that during the reign of Nicholas I

Nicholas I of Russia

Nicholas I , , was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the List of Russian rulers. On the eve of his death, the Russian Empire reached its historical zenith spanning over 20 million square kilometres....
he never once came into disagreeable contact with the authorities.

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Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov (1818-1887) was a conservative

Conservatism

Russia

Alexander III of Russia

Nicholas I of Russia

Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II Nikolaevich , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the List of Russian rulers of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881....
's reign (1855-1881) he thoroughly sympathized, and for some time he warmly advocated the introduction of liberal institutions of the British type, but when he perceived that the agitation was assuming a Socialistic and Nihilist

Nihilist

Nihilist can refer to* a person who believes human existence has no objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. See nihilism* a Russian cultural and political movement, see Nihilist movement...
tinge, and that in some quarters of the Liberal camp indulgence was being shown to Polish national aspirations, he gradually modified his attitude until he came to be regarded by the Liberals

Liberalism

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as a renegade.

At the beginning of 1863 he assumed the management and editorship of the Moscow News, and he retained that position till his death in 1887. During these twenty-four years he exercised considerable influence on public opinion and even on the Government, by representing with great ability the moderately Conservative spirit of Moscow

Moscow

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in opposition to the occasionally ultra-Liberal and always cosmopolitan spirit of St Petersburg. With the Slavophile

Slavophile

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s he agreed in advocating the extension of Russian influence in the Balkans

Balkans

The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic subregion of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia....
, but he carefully kept aloof from them and condemned their archaeological and ecclesiastical sentimentality.

Though generally temperate in his views, he was extremely incisive and often violent in his modes of expressing them, so that he made many enemies and sometimes incurred the displeasure of the press censure and the ministers, against which he was more than once protected by Alexander III

Alexander III of Russia

Alexander III Alexandrovich , also known as Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Tsar of Russia from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894....
in consideration of his able advocacy of national interests. He is remembered chiefly as an energetic opponent of Polish national aspirations, of extreme Liberalism, of the system of public instruction based on natural science, and of German political influence. In this last capacity he helped to prepare the way for the Franco-Russian Alliance

Franco-Russian Alliance

The Franco-Russian Alliance was a military alliance between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire that ran from 1892 to 1917. The alliance ended the diplomatic isolation of France and undermined the supremacy of the German Empire in Europe....
. After Katkov's death his place at the helm of the conservative party was taken by Konstantin Pobedonostsev

Konstantin Pobedonostsev

Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev was a Russian jurist, statesman, and adviser to three Tsars. Usually regarded as a prime representative of reactionary views, he was the "gray cardinal" of imperial politics during the reign of his disciple Alexander III of Russia, holding the position of the Ober-Procurator of the Holy Synod , the high...
and Aleksey Suvorin

Aleksey Suvorin

Aleksei Sergeevich Suvorin was an immensely rich newspaper and book publisher and journalist whose publishing empire wielded considerable influence during the last decades of the Russian Empire....
.