Internationally, poet Nikolai Nekrasov (1821-1877) is not as widely known as the great Russian novelists of the 19th century. And yet, he is no less important for understanding the Russian people than Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.
The Bolsheviks sought to erase all street names associated with the tsarist regime and started to rename places in order to commemorate leading communist officials and heroes. That’s how many cities got streets named not only after Lenin, but also after various foreigners. Here are some of them.