Short answers, pulled from the story.
Vissarion Belinsky was born in Sveaborg, a fortress town that is now part of Helsinki. He grew up in the small Russian town of Chembar where his father worked as a rural medical doctor.
Vissarion Belinsky died of consumption on the eve of his arrest by the Tsar's police due to his political views. His life ended at age thirty-seven after years of intense intellectual labor and physical decline from tuberculosis.
In 1839, Vissarion Belinsky moved to St. Petersburg Russia where he began editing two major literary magazines named Otechestvennye Zapiski and Sovremennik. He worked closely with the younger Nikolay Nekrasov on both publications until his death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky read aloud at several public events Vissarion Belinsky's letter which called for the end of serfdom. A secret press was assembled to print and distribute this letter leading to Dostoevsky being arrested convicted and condemned to death in 1849 before his sentence was commuted to four years incarceration in the prison camps of Siberia.
Vissarion Belinsky's works in twelve volumes were first published between 1859 and 1862. Following the expiration of copyright in 1898 several new editions appeared including a best edition compiled by S. Vengerov and supplied with profuse notes.