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Part One: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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What Is to Be Done by Nikolai Chernoshevsky

Turganov had his portrait taken by this guy named Felix Nadar, who I'm going to talk about in future episodes. He also defended the Paris commune with a hot air balloon and he invented Air Mail. And so, the first aerial photo of theParis commune, I actually don't know the answer to that because I will be doing an episode on the Paris communes soon. Nikolai Chernoshevsky wrote What Is To Be Done from his prison cell.

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