Duch and Axelrod - A History of the Russian Revolution

Duch was born in tochin in 18 55 to a jewish father and a peasant mother. He started out young and idealistic, and got swept up in the desire to educate and liberate the people. But like axelrod, he came home again in the summer of 18 75 and found his old friends and comrades either arrested, fled or turning their backs on radical politics. When this little insurrectionary crisis started brewing in chigerin he wanted to stoke and use that energy any way possible. And though axelrod tut tutted the plan, he and douch cemented a friendship, a comradeship, that would last for the rest of their lives.