Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky | |
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Died | 23 December 1895 Bedford Park, Chiswick, England | (aged 44)
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.