Sergei Stepniak

Sergei Stepniak
Stepniak in the 1880s
Born13 July 1851
Novy Starodub, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died23 December 1895(1895-12-23) (aged 44)
Bedford Park, Chiswick, England

Sergei Mikhailovich Stepniak-Kravchinskii (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Степняк-Кравчинский, Ukrainian: Сергій Степняк-Кравчинський; 13 July 1851 – 23 December 1895), known in 19th-century London revolutionary circles as Sergius Stepniak, was a Russian revolutionary of Ukrainian descent.

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.

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