Włodzimierz Spasowicz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish-Russian lawyer
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Place of Birth: Rechytsa, Belarus
About Włodzimierz Spasowicz
- Wlodzimierz Spasowicz or Vladimir Spasovich (1829-1906) was a Polish-Russian lawyer often acclaimed as the most brilliant defense attorney of Imperial Russia.Spasovich went to school in Minsk and studied law in St.
- Petersburg University, where he later became a professor.
- When the government was persecuting some of his students in 1861, Spasovich resigned his professorship in protest.
- Two years later, his textbook on criminal law was banned. After the Judicial reform of Alexander II he emerged as a leading trial lawyer.
- He took part in many of the sensational political trials of the 1860s and 1870s, including the Nechayev process.
- Fetyukovich, a defense attorney in Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov, was apparently based on Spasovich.Spasovich was one of those who tried to bring Russia and Poland together.
- He founded in St.
- Petersburg the Polish-language newspaper Kraj and "advocated the concept of Polish cultural autonomy within Russia" in the Warsaw periodical Atheneum. As a literary historian, Spasovich authored several articles about the literary ties between Russia and Poland as well as a concise account of Polish literary history.
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| Alternative names | Russian: ???? ???????? ????? | ||
| Description | Russian-Ukrainian painter, sculptor and essayist | ||
| Date of birth/death | 24 July 1844 (in Julian calendar) | 29 September 1930 | |
| Location of birth/death | Chuhuiv | Repino | |
| Work location | Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Chuhuiv | ||
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