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See also:KATKOV, See also:MICHAEL NIKIFOROVICH (ISI8-1887) , See also:Russian journalist, was See also:born in See also:Moscow in 1818. On See also:finishing his course at the university he devoted himself to literature and See also:philosophy, and showed so little individuality that during the reign of See also:Nicholas I. he never once came into disagreeable contact with the authorities. With the Liberal reaction and strong reform See also:movement which characterized the earlier years of See also:Alexander II.'s reign (1855-1881) he thoroughly sympathized, and for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he warmly advocated the introduction of liberal institutions of the See also:British type, but when he perceived that the agitation was assuming a Socialistic and Nihilist tinge, and that in some quarters of the Liberal See also:camp See also:indulgence was being shown to See also:Polish See also:national aspirations, he gradually modified his attitude until he came to be regarded by the Liberals as a renegade. At the beginning of 1863 he assumed the management and editorship of the Moscow See also:Gazette, and he retained that position till his See also:death in 1887. During these twenty-four years he exercised considerable See also:influence on public See also:opinion and even on the See also:Government, by representing with See also:great ability the moderately Conservative spirit of Moscow in opposition to the occasionally ultra-Liberal and always See also:cosmopolitan spirit of St See also:Petersburg. With the Slavophils he agreed in advocating the See also:extension of Russian influence in See also:south-eastern See also:Europe, 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 See also:press-censure and the ministers, against which he was more than once protected by Alexander III. in See also: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 See also:system of public instruction based on natural See also:science, and of See also:German See also:political influence. In this last capacity he helped to prepare the way for the Franco-Russian See also:alliance.
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