biography
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Stepnyak
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(‘son of the Steppe’), nickname of Sergius Mikhailovich
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| lived:
| (1852–95)
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| biography:
| Russian revolutionary. He was an artillery officer, but aroused government opposition as an apostle of freedom, was arrested, and subsequently kept under surveillance. He left Russia and settled in Geneva (1876) and London (1885). He was believed to be the assassin of General Mesentzieff, head of the St Petersburg police (1878). Among his works were La Russia Sotteranea (1881, Underground Russia), studies of the Nihilist movement, and the novel The Career of a Nihilist (1889). |
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