Mikhail Katkov

Michael Nikiforowitsch Katkov (Russian: Михаил Никифорович Катков; * 1820 in Moscow, † August 1, 1887 in Znamenskoye in Moscow) was a Russian journalist.

Life

He studied at Konigsberg and Berlin and was professor of philosophy in Moscow. Due to the limitation of the freedom of teaching he gave in 1849 at his office.

In 1856 he founded a printing house and gave the monthly Wjestnik Russki ( Russian Messenger ) out. In 1861 he was also the University of Moscow belonging Moskowskije Vedomosti ( Moscow News ) to 60,000 rubles lease. In 1866 he founded with his co-editor, the philology professor Pawel Leontiev († 1875), the Lyceum of the Tsarevich Nicholas in Moscow.

Until the Polish January Uprising in 1863 he was a friend of the English Self Governments and of other reforms. Since then, however urged the Moscow newspaper in accordance with national, panrussistischen flow forcible Russification of Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic provinces and represented a reactionary Slavophile and direction. Particularly passionate Katkov occurred against the Germans.

1866, the Moscow messages were reprimanded for their failures against Prime Minister Pyotr Alexandrovich Valuev; Katkov, however, soon pardoned again.

According to the throne of Emperor Alexander III. prevented in 1881 Katkov intention of Alexander II Establishment of a committee of the provincial landscape meetings and persuaded the Tsar to follow a strictly national, reactionary absolutist system. In foreign policy he pursued anti-German, pan-Slavic goals.

Like its competitor Clemens Friedrich Meyer ( Meyer Friedrich of Waldeck ) ruled that he lacked "integrity of mind and righteousness in the struggle ".