Alexander the Janiter (Dvornik)

The article is a review of a two-volume monograph by Yu. A. Pelevin about the revolutionary populist Alexander Mikhailov. The plots from the revolutionarys life described in the work (family atmosphere, initial path to radicalism, propaganda work among the Old Believers) are singled out as having laid the foundation for his personality and then - revolutionary ethics. The researchers too close attention to the context of the revolutionary movement, pushing the figure of Mikhailov into the background, is criticized. Attention is drawn to Mikhailovs work with the underground agent in the police Kletochnikov, the romantic attachment of the protagonist, the story of his arrest as demonstrating the human in him and the position of the organization by the end of 1880 The document Testament of Mikhailov is analyzed.