Short answers, pulled from the story.
Nikolay Nekrasov spent his childhood years in Greshnevo, Yaroslavl province after his father retired from the army in January 1823. He lived there with five siblings including brothers Andrey born in 1820 and Konstantin born in 1824.
Nekrasov wrote On the Road in 1845 and Motherland in 1846 as early realistic poems that delighted Vissarion Belinsky. His most famous poem Who Is Happy in Russia? written between 1863 and 1876 tells a story of seven peasants asking rural population if they are happy.
In November 1846 Panayev and Nekrasov acquired the popular magazine Sovremennich which had been founded by Alexander Pushkin. Works published included Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches Dmitry Grigorovich's Anton Goremyka and Ivan Goncharov's A Common Story.
The Poems by N. Nekrasov came out in October 1856 divided into four parts with Part 3 featuring Sasha an ode to new generation of politically minded Russians. A second edition appeared in 1861 now in two volumes and academic versions were later published in 12 volumes by Soviet Goslitizdat in 1948 and 1953.
Nikolai Alekseyevich Nekrasov died on the 8th of January 1878 at Yalta after continuing work on The Feast for All the World since September 1876. Four thousand people attended his funeral procession leading to Novodevichy Cemetery where Fyodor Dostoyevsky delivered a keynote eulogy.