1886)
Burtsev was born in Fort Perovsky (today Kyzylorda in Kazakhstan) to a military family. In 1882 he was expelled from Saint Petersburg State University and in 1885 from Kazan State University for taking part in student disturbances. As a member of Narodnaya Volya, he was imprisoned for two years (for about a year in the Peter and Paul Fortress) and in 1886 exiled to the Irkutsk region of Eastern Siberia.
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