Born Moscow into an ancient aristocratic Russian family and highly educated but his sympathies were with the peasants who had looked after him as a child. His revolutionary activities brought exile to Switzerland and France and to London in 1881 and again 1886 - 1917. Here he mixed with William Morris, Ford Madox Ford and Keir Hardie and co-founded the Freedom Press. Lived in Harrow and Bromley.
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Peter Kropotkin
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General John Burgoyne
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John Landy
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Sir Sydney H. Waterlow
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Andres Bello
Born: Caracas, Venezuela.
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Thomas Bowman Stephenson
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