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Part Two: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The History of the Nihilists

In early 1879, a Jewish nihilist named Gregory Goldenberg assassinates Prince Cropotkin. "I struggle to understand the mechanism by which I get hit by a train unless I'm trying to hop it," he says of his experiences with trains. The anarchist was a prince and had a cousin who was also a prince named Prince Croposkin. He got hit by aTrain in the middle of the night in London and died. It might have been suicide but no one wants to talk about it.

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