The Circle of Tchaikovsky was a Russian literary society for self-education. It was secretly organised in the early 1870s by nihilists to share books and knowledge that had been banned in the Russian Empire. Both men and women were accepted, in the informal atmosphere of the society. This article is about the Russian cultural and political movement. ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start...

Figures like Nicholas Tchaikovsky, Sophia Perovskaya, Sergei Kravchinski, Dmitry Klements, Nikolai Morozov, Lev Tikhomirov, Mikhail Frolenko and Peter Kropotkin were amongst its ranks. At first only a small group located in St. Petersburg, the group gave birth to similar cells all across the Russian Empire. The Circle of Tchaikovksy was the main source through which works by Marx and other socialist authors could be acquired. It was created as an alternative to People's Revenge, a similar, but more authoritarian organisation led by Dmitri Nechayev. Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya (Перовская, Софья Львовна in Russian) (9. ... Sergei Kravchinski, known in 19th century London revolutionary circles as Stepniak, was the Russian who killed the chief of that countrys secret police with a dagger in the streets of St Petersburg in 1878. ... Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Моро́зов) (July 7, 1854 – July 30, 1946) was Russian scientist and revolutionary. ... Peter Kropotkin Prince Peter Alexeevich Kropotkin (In Russian Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин) (December 9, 1842 - February 8, 1921) was one of Russias foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of what he called anarchist communism: the model of society he advocated for most of his life was that of... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Marx is a common German surname. ... The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ... Dmitri Nechaev was a mid-to-late 19th century Russian Nihilist, and associate of Mikhail Bakunin. ...

See also

• Samizdat