The Anarchist Peril, Translated & Illustrated

About the year 1841, a young Russian aristocrat arrived at Berlin. Educated at the school for cadets in St. Petersburg, he had been for a brief period an officer in the army; but in 1835 he had thrown up his commission. He was then twenty-one—an age when most soldiers are dreaming only of war and military honors. He, on the contrary, was pondering over the writings of Hegel and Schopenhauer. This eccentric stripling was none other than Prince Michael Bakounine, the future founder of the Ana...