XXXII Международный конгресс ИИСАА. 26–28 апреля 2023 г.

100 XXXII Международный Конгресс по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки Секция III the Old-Believers as well as Polish and Circassian emigrants in Turkey as potential allies of the revolution to come. While in Turkey Kelsiev experienced a serious mental and ideological crisis. He left Ottoman Turkey in 1865. Then, after having lost his family to cholera, he broke his relations with Alexander Hertzen and, on May 20, 1867 (Old style), surrendered to the Russian authorities. Then he spent 100 days in custody where wrote his Confession , which impressed the Tsar Alexander II who pardoned the former revolutionary and permitted to publish a censored version of the confession under the title “Perezhitoye i peredumannoye” ( My Experience and Thoughts ) in 1868. However, due to various reasons, Kelsiev could not receive any permanent work in Russia and had to survive by sending his article to various periodicals from time to time. Disillusioned and broke he died, 37 years of age, in a suburb of St. Petersburg (Poliustrovo) on October 4/16, 1872. Besides the full version of Kelsiev’s Confession , the paper deals with his articles published in Russky vestik in 1869–1870, in Grazhdanin in 1873, and some other relevant sources.