Nikolay Turgenev
RUSSIAN ECONOMIST (1789-1871)
Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev
Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev (), (23 October, 1789, Simbirsk–10 November 1871, Bougival near Paris) was an early Russian Imperial economist and political theoretician who gained renown for his Essay on the Theory of Taxation (1818) and Russia and the Russians (1847). A relative of the novelist Ivan Turgenev, Nikolay co-founded several reformist societies, notably the Northern Society of the Decembrists.