Kashkin, Nikolai Sergeevich

Born May 2 (14), 1829, in Kaluga; died there Nov. 29 (Dec. 12), 1914. Russian social and political figure. Member of the Petrashevskii circle.

Kashkin was a nobleman and the son of a Decembrist. He graduated from the Alexander Lycée in 1847 and served in the ministry of foreign affairs. The Petrashevskii circle (which included A. V. Khanykov, A. I. Evropeus, and D. D. Akh-sharumov), whose members studied the works of Utopian socialist authors, began to meet in Kashkin’s home in October 1848. Kashkin was arrested in April 1849, deprived of all his rights and his possessions, and brought to trial. In 1849 in the Petrashevskii trial Kashkin was exiled to the Caucasian corps as a rank-and-file soldier. He was promoted to officer’s rank in 1855. Kashkin was a member of the liberal opposition in the Kaluga provincial committee during the period of preparation for the peasant reform of 1861. He was a member of the Kaluga district court from 1870 to 1908.