The study in the school of life and activity of Chernyshevsky is of extremely great ideological and educational importance. The name of Chernyshevsky forever went down in the history of our socio-political life and in the history of our literature as the name of the leader and spokesman for the aspirations and aspirations of the revolutionary democratic movement of the 60s. The raznochintsy revolutionaries of the 60s, as Lenin wrote, were the second generation in the history of the Russian revolution, immediately preceding the "storm" of the proletarian revolution.