In March 1901, a petition was published by a group of Russian exiles as part of a protest at the compulsory drafting of 183 students at Kiev University into the Tsar’s imperial army. According to a report that accompanied the petition, the same fate had befallen a further twenty-five students of St Petersburg University. According…
Month: March 2023
Victor Grayson MP – A Timeline Biography
Timeline September 5, 1881: Albert Victor Grayson is born in Liverpool. Just a few months previously, the Grayson family had been living on Sidney Street in the Poplar district of London — scene of an infamous siege. In the late 1800s and early 1900s the Poplar district was home to the largest Russian émigré community…