Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky

Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky
Born	(1851-07-13)13 July 1851 Novy Starodub, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine)
Died	23 December 1895(1895-12-23) (aged 44) Bedford Park, Chiswick, England

Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Степняк-Кравчинский; 13 July 1851 – 23 December 1895), known in the 19th-century London revolutionary circles as Sergius Stepniak, was a Russian revolutionary. He is mainly known for assassinating General Nikolai Mezentsov, the chief of Russia's Gendarme corps and the head of the country's secret police,^[1] with a dagger in the streets of St. Petersburg in 1878.