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Show SERGIUS STEPNIAK, NIHILIST. He will Deliver Hie Flrtt Lecture In the United Statu Tonight. New Yokk, Jan. 8. Special to The Times. Sergius Stepniak, the Russian revolutionary writer, will deliver his first lecture in the United States tonight at the New York Metropolitan Opera house. Stepniak is of all the so-called nihilists the man most feared by the Russian government, because his writings writ-ings have done more to sow discontent in Russia than, all the other agencies combined. . He is fifty years of age and of Cossack ancestry. His immediate family were partly noble and partly of the trading class. He was exiled on account of his criticisms of the policy of Count Tolstoi, the minister of justice, and he settled in Londou. His real name is Michael Dragomanofi'. He is the principal authority to the London Times on all Russian matters.' He will make an exteusive tour of the country and will lecture in all the principal cities. |