Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: Na fanau Viktor Burenin i Moscow, o le tama lona sefulu lua i le aiga o le tusiata o Pyotr Petrovich Burenin. A o avea o ia ma se tamaitiiti aʻoga i le Kolisi o le Fausaga i Moscow (1852-1859), na avea ai o ia ma uō a nisi o ē na faamagaloina
Decembrists (Ivan Pushchin, Ivan Yakushkin, Gavriil Batenkov faʻatasi ai ma isi) na faʻalauiloaina le tauleʻaleʻa i totonu o tusitusiga a Rusia. O se faatosinaga malosi na faamaonia e petrashevets Sergey Durov o le na fautuaina o ia e faaliliu Barbier's "Iambes et poemes" mo le Geneva-based "The Word of the Underground" magazine. I le 1861, na faaalu ai e Burenin ni masina i Siamani, Suisilani ma Falani; talu mai lenā taimi, na avea ai ana asiasiga i Europa i Sisifo ma asiasiga faaletausaga.