ZAITSEV Bartholomew A.

(1842 - 1881).
Listened legal lecture in St. Petersburg, then medical in Moscow, but the rate of poverty has not finished with 1862. began working in the Russian Word G.E. Blagosvetlov, where he wrote bibliographical and critical notes and articles about new books on literature, history and science. Attracted the attention of smartness pen and extreme utilitarian and antiesteticheskogo outlook. It is characteristic of his article on Lermontov (1863), which Zaitsev accuses of "inconsistencies in the ideas and images, pettiness content" admirable "erected by them as the acme of the cadets and scrofulous landlords subsidiaries. In the field of literary criticism Zaitsev was henchmen Pisarev, differing from it the less developed sense of proportion and less mature thought. Effect Zaitseva youth was very high. It sometimes vandalistic critical activity was a healthy grain of honest and reasonable democracy, and the most extreme circumstances due to its feverishly hurrying forward era. Arrest and detention in the Fortress (1866), police harassment and censorship and, finally, disease, forced to leave Russia Zaitseva (1869). Abroad Zaitsev became one of the founders of the first Italian section of International and became friends with Bakunin in his struggle with Marxism. Adhering to the pure revolutionism, Zaitsev considered the economic struggles of the proletariat and the capitalist utopia and advised to set and implement the next task. Among the various currents of Russian revolutionary thought Zaitsev not created for himself a prominent position, but took an active part in the grounded them, N.A. Bald and ax. Khristoforova (1877) Journal of Common Cause, whose goal was the unification of the Russian revolutionary directions. Knowing several European languages, . Zaitsev diligently translated into Russian Schlosser, . Lassalle, . Zimmermann, . written on the newest sources of "ancient history of the East" (1879) and "ancient history of the West" (1882), in 70 years has placed several articles on the history of "Notes of the Fatherland",
. - See. "VA. Zaitsev abroad "(" last years ", 1908," 11).