Yury Fyodorovich Samarin

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Yury Fyodorovich Samarin

Russian statesman

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Russian history

In Russia: Russification policies
…authors were Nikolay Milyutin and Yury Samarin, who genuinely desired to benefit the peasants. The reform was followed, however, by an anti-Polish policy in education and other areas. In the 1880s this went so far that the language of instruction even in primary schools in areas of purely Polish population…
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Russian Slavophile movement

In Russia: Education and intellectual life
Yury Samarin—were men of deep European culture and, with one exception, bitter opponents of serfdom. Indeed, as landowners they knew more about the problems and sufferings of the serfs than did many Westernizers. The leading Westernizers—Aleksandr Herzen, Vissarion Belinsky, and Mikhail Bakunin
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