The history of the social-revolutionary movement in Russia. 1861-1881

Nikolai Nikolaevich Golitsyn (1836–1893), prince, actual state adviser, bibliographer, employee of the Ministry of the Interior. In 1883, on the instructions of the police department, he continued the “revolutionary movement in Russia” begun by S.S. Tatishchev. Golitsyn described the activities of Russian emigrants and students in Switzerland (G. Tsurich) for the period from 1861 to 1881. His work in 1887 was published by a separate book with a limited circulation of 50 copies, to date has not been reprinted and is a bibliographic rarity. To work on the book, the author was admitted to the secret archive of the III department, where he studied the reports of police agents in Switzerland and the investigative cases of revolutionaries. Golitsyn was later sent to Europe, where he got acquainted with the features of the life of Russian political emigration. The book contains links to sources in the form of court cases, reports of Swiss agents, quotes from students of students, as well as 253 biographical certificates about participants in political circles, which give an idea of ​​the level of education, social, ethnicity of the leaders of the Russian revolutionary movement of the second half of the 19th century