Krawczynski Sergey

(1852 - 1895).
I finished the course in military school, was for some time officer. Upon his retirement, fully joined the Populist movement of the 70-ies. He was one of the first who went "the people". They were written for propaganda among the people of the brochure "Mudritsa Naumovna" and other. Leaving half the 70-ies abroad, Krawczynski participated in the uprising of Herzegovina and try to bring the Italian Socialist revolutionary movement in southern Italy. In 1877, Mr.. Krawczynski returned to Russia and 4 August 1878. was one of the chief of police killers Mezentsov. The motives of this murder are set out in the pamphlet: "The murder of chief of police Mezentsov". He hangs here staronarodnicheskoy terms, . denying political freedom and representative system, . the phenomenon of "bourgeois" order of things, . and indulge in sharp contradiction with himself, . because in the same pamphlet Krawczynski requires personal integrity to the government socialists and non-interference in their struggle against the bourgeoisie,
. Subsequently, Krawczynski found inconsistency in this view and in its foreign pamphlets ( "What do we need" and others) was an ardent supporter of the struggle for political freedom and democratic representative institutions as a prerequisite for the further struggle for a socialist system,
. Leaving shortly after the murder Mezentsov again abroad, Krawczynski lived there until the end of life. Killed accidentally fell under a train. Abroad Krawczynski published under the pseudonym "Stepniak," Italian book "La Rossia sotteranca" ( "Underground Russia", 1893), translated into different languages and in Russian "Little House on the Volga", "Shtundist Pavel Rudenko, novel Andrei housing "and other. He was an editor of the English-language newspaper "Free Russia". Most of the works Kravchinsky collected and published in 1907. St. Petersburg publishing house "Torch".