Arthur Benni
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 139 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5080-4188-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Benni (1839, Tomaszow-Rawski, Congress Poland {now Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland}, - November 27, 1867, Rome,Italy, Артур Иванович Бенни) was a Polish-born English citizen, known in Russia (where his name was spelled Арту?р Ива?нович Бе?нни) as a journalist, Hertzen associate, Socialist activist and women liberation commune-founder. He served a three months prison sentence as part of the "32 Process", was deported from the country and died in 1867 in Rome hospital, after having been injured, as a member of the Giuseppe Garibaldi's squad. Arthur Benni's activities and persona caused controversy in Russia where rumours of him being a spy and a 3rd Department agent were being spread, much to his outrage and distress. Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Leskov did much to clear Benni's name. The latter (who chose Benni as a prototype for Rainer, the No Way Out novel's revolutionary character) wrote a posthumous essay on him called The Mystery Man....