SERGEY STEPNYAK-KRAVCHINSKY


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  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Revolutionary

Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (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, with a dagger in the streets of St. Petersburg in 1878.