author
F. (Feliks) Volkhovskii
1846–1914
Best known as a revolutionary journalist and writer, he spent years in exile and later became an important link between Russian radicals and readers in the West. His life carried him from Poltava and Siberia to London, where he helped keep the cause of Russian freedom in print.
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A China cup, and other stories for children
by F. (Feliks) Volkhovskii
About the author
Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky (1846–1914), often listed as F. Volkhovskii or Felix Volkhovsky, was a Ukrainian- and Russian-born revolutionary, journalist, writer, translator, and publisher. He was born in Poltava, was drawn into the populist and revolutionary movements of the 1870s, and was arrested more than once by the tsarist authorities.
After being tried in the famous "Trial of the 193," he was banished to Siberia. He escaped in 1889, reached Western Europe by way of America, and eventually settled in London. There he worked with the Free Russian Press and became a close associate of Sergey Stepniak-Kravchinsky; after Stepniak's death, Volkhovsky took over editorial work on Free Russia.
In exile, he became known not only as a political activist but also as a public voice explaining Russian opposition movements to British and American audiences. Accounts of his later life describe him as a bridge between different strands of the émigré and socialist worlds, and as someone who argued against pogroms and anti-Semitism within the broader revolutionary movement.