Abstract
The circle of Petrashevsky, getting into the act in 1840s in Petersburg, makes a notable contribution to Russian literature and philosophy. The members of the circle, composed of different professional fields like student, officer, poet, writer, philosopher, merchant and soldier, vociferously condemn the system of tsardom and serfdom. The members of Petrashevsky develop their utopian-socialist views majorly on the theories of the French philosopher François Marie Charles Fourier and the Russian philosopher Vissarion Grigorevich Belinsky. Meeting up every Friday night at the home of the circle leader Mihail Vasilevich Butashevich-Petrashevsky in Petersburg, the members discuss current, social, political, literary, religious and philosophical issues. The members of Petrashevsky circle plan to overthrow the existing regime. One of the most important propaganda organs of the circle of Petrashevsky is poetry. The poets of Petrashevsky aim to infuse their modern and liberal thoughts into the public. However, Tsar Nicholas I’s authoritarian government restricts poets’ actions and discourse. The Petrashevsky poets Aleksei Nikolaevich Pleshcheyev' and Dmitry Dmitrievich Achsharumov dream a free, independent, fair, equal and happy future in their poems. In Sergei Fedorovich Durov’s poems come into prominence dissatisfaction towards his period, disappointment, pessimism, desperation and hopelessness.
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