STEPNYAK-KRAVCHINSKY (Sergey Mikhaylovich, ‘STEPNYAK’, 1852-1895, Russian Revolutionary)

Autograph Letter Signed S. Stepniak to Sydney A. GIMSON (Sydney Ansell, 1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) accepting his invitation to lecture on “the 17 of December and my subject is Count Tolstoi as a novelist and social reformer. Does it suit you? Stepniak Author of... Career of a Nihilist...”, 1 side 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 1st October

He was known in the 19th century London revolutionary circles as Sergius Stepniak. He was a Ukrainian revolutionary mainly known for assassinating General Nikolai Mezentsov, the chief of Russia's Gendarme corps and the head of the country's secret police, with a dagger in the streets of St Petersburg in 1878.

Item Date:  1890

Stock No:  42560      £175

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