Michael Lunin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Michael Lunin

Russian philosopher

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1787

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 03-Dec-1845

Profession: military personnel, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Michael Lunin

  • “My nickname changed during my imprisonment and exile, and with each change it became longer.
  • Now, in official documents, I am referred to as: “A state criminal in exile.”...
  • My sole weapon is my thought…”“As an aged man he used to say that, though he had only one tooth left in his mouth, even that one was directed against Nicholas.”''Mikhail Sergeyevich Lunin (Russian: ?????? ????????? ?????; December 29, 1787 - December 3, 1845 ), also spelt MikhaĂŻl Lounine, was a Russian political philosopher, revolutionary, Mason, Decembrist, a Lieutenant of the Grodno Life Guards regiment and a participant of the Franco-Russian Patriotic War of 1812.
  • After a successful career in the military during the Napoleonic invasion, he became involved with multiple liberal Russian secret societies in the early 19th century, including the Union of Salvation and the Union of Welfare, as well as the Northern Society and the Southern Society.
  • After the Decembrist Revolt took place in 1825, he was arrested due to his affiliations with the men responsible, and was subsequently exiled to a labor camp in Siberia.
  • Lunin spent time in Finnish jails, three different prisons in Siberia, and lived on a farm under the watchful eye of the government during his life as an exile.
  • Known for keeping good spirits and maintaining a firm defiance of autocratic rule, Lunin was eventually imprisoned again for writing in "opposition" to the Russian government, and lived out the rest of his life in a cell. Dostoevsky described Lunin as a "character about whom legends persist", a precursor to the later Russian socialist revolutionaries:All his life he deliberately looked for danger.
  • He so loved the sensation it gave him that it became a physical necessity for him.
  • In his youth he fought duels over nothing, and when he was exiled to Siberia, he went bear hunting armed only with a knife.
  • He also enjoyed tangling with runaway convicts in the Siberian forests....
  • What fascinates [such people]...is overcoming their fear.

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