[Rarebooks] F/S Sergius Stepniak. Autographed Letter Signed Meeting with George Kennan

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(Russian Revolutionary) Sergius Stepniak. Autographed Letter Signed. 
Bedford Park: One page, measuring 5" x 8", c1893. To Dear "Warren", 
informing him that George Kennan is in London and will be with Stepniak 
on Saturday evening, will Warren and his wife join them? No doubt that 
proved to be an interesting soiree. Stepniak is listed as a "prominent 
correspondent" in the Kennan Papers at the NYPL. The identity of "Dear 
Warren" still eludes me, he was no doubt well connected as I have other 
letters to him from several prominent Brits of the period. Stepniak 
letters are quite scarce with a few scattered records from the 1930's.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (1851 -- 1895), known in the 
19th century London revolutionary circles as Stepniak or Sergius 
Stepniak, was a Russian revolutionary mainly known for assassinating 
General Nikolai Mezentsov, the chief of Gendarme corps, the head of the 
country's secret police with a dagger in the streets of St Petersburg in 
1878. After the killing, he exposed himself to danger by remaining in 
Russia, and in 1880 he was obliged to leave the country. He settled for 
a short time in Switzerland, then a favorite resort of revolutionary 
leaders, and after a few years came to London. He was already known in 
England by his book, Underground Russia, which had been published in 
London in 1882. In England he established the Society of Friends of 
Russian Freedom and the Russia Free Press, linking with Karl Pearson, 
Wilfrid Voynich and Charlotte Wilson. He was also an editor for the 
Society's house organ, Free Russia.

George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 -- March 17, 2005) was an 
American diplomat and historian. He was known best as an advocate of a 
policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War on which 
he later reversed himself. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly 
histories of the relations between USSR and the United States. He was 
also one of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men"
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