Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Nikolay Dobrolyubov" in English language version.
Dobrolyubov, whose father strictly prohibited him from enrolling in a university, traveled to St. Petersburg with the assumed intent of joining the Theological Academy. He enrolled, instead, at St. Petersburg's Main Pedagogical Institute.
N. A. Dobrolyubov's life and activities can be divided into three periods. [...] The second was the period of his education at the Central Pedagogical Institute in St. Petersburg (1853-1857).
[...] towards the end of 1855 he began to edit a manuscript journal called Rumors, which he humorously described as 'a newspaper literary, anecdotic, and only partly political'.
In June 1857, on graduating from the Pedagogical Institute, he became a member of the staff of the Sovremennik and at the end of that year was put in charge of its Book Review section.