Annensky was born into the family of a public official in Omsk on September 1 N.S. 1855. In 1860, while still a child, he was taken to Saint Petersburg. Innokenty lost his parents early on, and was raised in the family of his older brother, Nikolai Annensky, a prominent Narodnik and political activist. In 1879 Innokenty graduated from philological department of St Petersburg University, where he concentrated on Historical-comparative linguistics. He himself became a teacher, and taught classical languages and ancient literature studie ...

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