Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky
Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky | |
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| Born | 13 July 1851 Novy Starodub, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 23 December 1895 (aged 44) Bedford Park, Chiswick, England |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Степняк-Кравчинский; 13 July 1851 – 23 December 1895), known in 19th-century London revolutionary circles as Sergius Stepniak, was a Russian revolutionary.
He 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.