Sergei Mikhailovich Stepniak

Emily, born five years ahead of Isabella in 1850, attended the Slade School of Art in the late 1870s and became a painter well-known in the Leeds community. Like IOF , she also became a...

Several commentators suggest that CG was more than a little in love with Stepniak , though most agree that their relationship never became sexual. He was killed by a train while crossing a...

Among her Russian exile contacts, she attended the lectures of Peter Kropotkin , and befriended Felix Volkhovsky and Sergei Stepniak .

Through her political interests she got to know George Bernard Shaw (with whom she had a brief affair but a succeeding steady friendship), Sidney Webb , Sydney Olivier , Annie Besant , Eleanor Marx ,...

In 1891 Edward Garnett brought home with him a Russian political exile, Felix Volkhovsky , who encouraged CG , then pregnant, to learn Russian. As a result of this friendship, she and Edward became acquainted...

Back in London, Ethel Lilian Boole was further pulled into revolutionary causes after her friend Charlotte Wilson (then an anarchist journalist, later a leader of the Fabian Women's Group ) introduced her to exiles Sergei Kravchinskii

A few years later her friend Stepniak taught her Russian at her desire, to facilitate her travel there. She also learned Ukrainian (so that she could read Taras Shevchenko 's poetry in the original) and...

It had already appeared serially from January 1905 to January 1906: During the two years leading up to the appearance of this work in book form EN was often producing monthly instalments of...

Her version of his novels appeared over these years in fifteen volumes. His sketches, plays, and poems in prose followed them. Sergei Stepniak was so helpful while she was working on this translation that she...

Before publishing novels of her own, ELV started in the literary field as a translator, largely of texts by writers she was connected to through her revolutionary involvement. She learned Russian from her political mentor...

When it was published as a volume, a reviewer for the Saturday Review called it a clever and careful piece of work by an author new to fiction, while a...

The protagonist, Olive Latham, called by one reviewer a matter-of-fact, square-toe-booted English hospital nurse, nevertheless bears many similarities to ELV in her heritage, personal experiences, interests, and relationships.

As a result of her involvement with the Friends of Russian Freedom , HS published several books on Russian themes, most notably The Highway of Sorrow at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1894...

ELV published a volume, Nihilism as It Is, which includes her English versions of several pamphlets by Stepniak , together with Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovskii 's Claims of the Russian Liberals.

The following year, 1895, she translated the satirical The Humour of Russia, a compilation by Stepniak , which joined the Library of Humour, a series of books on different versions of humour among...