18 Facts About Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky is mainly known for assassinating General Nikolai Mezentsov, chief of Russia's Gendarme corps and head of secret police, with a dagger in the streets of St Petersburg in 1878.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky received a liberal education, and when he left school, he went on to attend the Military academy and graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery Institute before joining the Imperial Russian Army.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky reached the rank of second lieutenant before resigning his commission in 1871.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky's sympathy lay with the peasants, among whom he had lived during his boyhood in the country, which led him to develop democratic, and later revolutionary opinions.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky succeeded in making his escape, possibly being permitted to escape on account of his youth, and immediately began a more vigorous campaign against autocracy.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky joined the anarchist Errico Malatesta in his small rebellion in the Italian province of Benevento in 1877.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky returned to Russia in 1878, joining Zemlya i volya, where he along with Nikolai Morozov and Olga Liubatovich edited the party journal.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky settled for a short time in Switzerland, then a favourite resort of revolutionary leaders, and after a few years came to London.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky was already known in England by his book, Underground Russia, which had been published in London in 1882.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky was an editor for the Society's house organ, Free Russia.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky followed up Underground Russia with a number of other works on the condition of the Russian peasantry, on Nihilism, and on the conditions of life in Russia.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky was chiefly identified with the Socialists in England and the Social Democratic parties on the Continent; but he was regarded by people of all opinions as an agitator whose motives had always been pure and disinterested.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky was a stranger to the feeling of fear; it was as foreign to him as colors are to a person born blind.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky was ready to risk his life every moment.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky spent some of the most enjoyable moments of his life in America where, surrounded by bright black faces, he taught in a negro school.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky left his house about 10.30 in the morning, in order to visit a gathering of friends and comrades in Shepherd's Bush.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky was absorbed in a book, which he read while walking.

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky had to cross a single track of a branch line, between Hammersmith and South Acton.